[MasterGunner01]

If you really want a big budget costume drama, aren't a stickler for historic accuracy, then check out Universal’s “The Black Shield of Falworth” (1954) with Tony Curtis (as a squire, then a knight) and Janet Leigh (as the princess). This is a thinly disguised copy of Prince Valiant of the Middle Ages saga done in Technicolor. It is a leap of imagination to imagine Tony Curtis in Middle Ages England speaking with a Brooklyn accent, but it's cute in a perverse kind of way.

There was supposedly a line of dialog that Curtis did not say circulated at the time as a put down of him and his acting: “Yon-da lies de castle of me faddah” or similar.

In reality, Curtis uttered a similar line for real in the 1952 movie “The Son of Ali Baba” that goes: “This is the palace of my father, and yonder lies the Valley of the Sun”. Think of it as a New Yorker does the Arabian Nights.

[jackal7163]

In Gladiator’s first battle scene, the Germanic warriors are chanting Zulu chants lifted off the Zulu soundtrack