"Bert Olton" <artorius@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Franklin Cross wrote:
>
>> I was just fascinated by the fact that it's an Arthurian love story
that,
>> to my knowledge, contains no mention of Arthur, Lancelot et al. I
>> wondered if Tristram's story would ever be told.
>
> Franklin,
>
> My apologies for taking so long in replying to our original comments. In
> regards to that, you're right, I believe. Not too many people will be
> interested in this film, other than, as you put it, "Hard core Arthurian
> fans." This latest will probably go to video/dvd release fairly
rapidly.
>
> The Tristan story has, however, been done a number of times on film.
Other
> than tapings of opera performances of Wagner's version of things, a
couple
> of examples are "Lovespell", which starred Richard Burton as King Mark,
> and "Fire and Sword", which included Peter Firth as Dinas.
>
> Bert
>
I was not aware of that. Thank you for the info!
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