75
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherProduction of this picture in England endowed it with a rich, distinctive air. It is a grand picture, told in what Sir Walter himself called his "big bow-wow style."
- 80Time OutTime OutThe dialogue and script are fatuously Americanised from Scott's original, but these chivalric Hollywood sagas still have a strange poetic quality about them, perhaps partly because of the way they unscrupulously and inaccurately ransacked literature and history for ideas and images.
- Luxe MGM historical ransacking, locationed to the nines, beautiful to look upon, but with energy lapses in the soggy script of Sir Walter Scott's epic classic.
- 70The New YorkerPauline KaelThe New YorkerPauline KaelNo one could say this wasn't a rousing movie. It's also romantic, big, commercial, and slick, in the M-G-M grand manner.
- 70The Observer (UK)The Observer (UK)Best of a series of lavishly mounted MGM historical yarns made in England in the early 1950s with American stars and British supporting casts. [03 Jun 2012, p.46]