When Knights Were Bold
- by Douglas Furber and Austin Parker, directed by Jack Raymond
- Feature Film
- Romance, Comedy, Music and Musicals
- Adults
- Debatable Time Travel
- English
- When Knights Were Bold by Douglas Furber and Austin Parker, directed by Jack Raymond (at movie theaters, London, 19 February 1936).
In this first talkie adaptation of the 1906 play, Sir Guy sings a song about his love Lady Rowena and immediately falls asleep, only to appear in the Age of Chivalry, where he tap dances (still attired in his 20th century tuxedo) and is now beguiled by Rowena of days gone by.
—Michael Main
♫ Then let me dream and never awake until I make you mine ♫ . . . Ah, Rowena [falls asleep]
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- Time Periods
- Middle Ages (AD 476 to 1454)
- Circa AD 1930 to 1939: presumed time period
- Time Travel Methods
- Possible Dream, Hallucination, et al.: a strong possibility given the source material of When Knights Were Bold
- Themes
- People from Different Times Look Exactly Alike: Past and present Rowena and de Vere are both played by Fay Wray and Jack Buchanan.
- Real-World Tags
Variants
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- When Knights Were Bold by Douglas Furber and Austin Parker, directed by Jack Raymond (at movie theaters, London, 19 February 1936).
Harriet Jay as by Charles Marlowe (based on a work by)
Robert Buchanan [uncredited] (based on a work by)
Previous Works
Indexer Notes
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- Credits—The IMDb credits Douglas Furber and Austin Parker with “dialogue and scenario,” which we presume is how they were credited in the film. For our purposes, we interpret that to mean that they wrote the screenplay (or “shooting script” as it was called), adapting it from Harriett Jay’s 1906 play.