Ivanhoe

Year: 1986

Runtime: 55 mins

Language: English

Director: Geoff Collins

AdventureAnimation

Based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe’s 12th-century England comes to life in Burbank Film’s classic animated film.

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Read the Ivanhoe book behind the movie

A Disinherited Saxon Knight Returns from Crusade to a Divided England, Entering Tournaments, Sieges, and Trials amid Norman Rule and Prince John's Ambition · by Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch

Why this book?

The 1986 animated Ivanhoe translates Scott's medieval adventure for a younger feature audience, preserving the disinherited knight, Rowena, Rebecca and Isaac, Prince John's threat, King Richard's hidden return, tournament and castle action, and Bois-Guilbert's role as principal opponent. Animation shortens the novel's political background, religious persecution, dialogue, shifting disguises, and morally ambiguous alliances into a direct contest of recognizable heroes and villains. The Penguin Classics text gives readers the complete historical romance behind that accessible version, especially Rebecca's intelligence and exclusion, Cedric's Saxon nationalism, and Scott's more complicated view of the chivalric ideals the action appears to celebrate.

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