"Theirs was the mightiest challenge of them all!"
Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
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Rex Harrison
Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin
Virginia Mayo
Lady Edith Plantagenet
George Sanders
King Richard I
Laurence Harvey
Sir Kenneth of the Leopard
Robert Douglas
Sir Giles Amaury
Michael Pate
Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat
Paula Raymond
Queen Berengaria
Lester Matthews
Archbishop of Tyre / Narrator
Anthony Eustrel
Baron De Vaux
Henry Corden
King Philip of France
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