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First Knight
Swordsman Lancelot is incredibly skilled at fighting, but when he meets Guinevere, he can't seem to get past her defenses. But Guinevere is due to be married to King Arthur. Meanwhile, a violent warlord tries to seize power from Arthur and Lancelot must try to put his feelings aside and defend his king.
















14 April 1904, South Kensington, London, England, UK

21 October 1971, London, England, UK

1952, Willesden, Middlesex, England, UK



8 March 1971, Surrey, England, UK

10 March 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA

4 July 1916, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA


2 December 1941, Cardiff, Wales, UK

15 July 1924, South Africa

7 June 1956, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK


31 August 1967, Worthing, Sussex, England, UK


25 February 1966, Salisbury, Maryland, USA

1968

16 December 1947, London, England, UK

25 December 1981, California, USA

23 February 1957, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England, UK

2 June 1961, Dublin, Ireland


12 January 1961, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, England, UK

31 August 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

10 March 1921, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

8 February 1992, Los Angeles, California, USA


11 November 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA





August 07, 2004
The out-of-place [Richard] Gere doesn't do justice to the fine performance of [Julia] Ormond.
April 06, 2003
No Merlin, no magic, no way.
March 21, 2003
Bland and over-romanticized treatment of the Arthurian legend. Gere ridiculously miscast as Lancelot. Watch Boorman's EXCALIBUR instead.
April 21, 2008
Goes for a pass as a shallow but occasionally rousing swordfighting flick with a handful of thoughtful scenes...has something those other pictures don't have: Sean Connery as King Arthur.
January 01, 2000
There's swordplay to the hilt, but the story itself never quite gets in Gere.
April 23, 2008
While director Jerry Zucker seems to have been intent on dragging the film to the mushy middle, it's still more entertaining than most comparable Middle Ages-set movies.
January 01, 2000
Pillaged of such mainstays as Merlin and Morgan le Fay-as well as magic, majesty and depth-'Camelot' has become 'Camelite.'
February 13, 2001
Aside from casting Richard Gere as Lancelot, First Knight marches out as an agreeably intelligent, mature and well-mounted telling of the legendary King Arthur story.
August 16, 2005
Director Zucker is unsuccessful in trying to put a fresh angle on the familiar story, and he is not much helped by his romantic leads, Richard Gere and Julia Ormond.
February 13, 2001
The problem for him[Gere], and the film, comes when the non-physical acting begins.
January 01, 2000
...lots of action and chivalrous pomp, but no magic.
May 12, 2001
Whenever Zucker stops piling on battle scenes as if he were directing Braveheart, his film casts a romantic spell.