While definitely athletic, pageant-minded and somewhat recognizable after all of the war dramas that have come out since Elizabethan times, no movie has given a more poignant impression of men in battle or been so cutting about the waste and folly of war.
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Henry V
Overview
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
Director and cast
- Laurence Olivier Director
- Laurence Olivier as King Henry
- Renée Asherson as Princess Katherine
- Ralph Truman as Mountjoy - The French Herald
- Ernest Thesiger as Duke of Berri - French Ambassador
- Frederick Cooper as Corporal Nym
- Robert Helpmann as Bishop of Ely
- Leslie Banks as Chorus
- Felix Aylmer as Archbishop of Canterbury
- Robert Newton as Ancient Pistol
- Freda Jackson as Mistress Quickly
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art.
One can pick plenty of bones with Laurence Olivier's direction of the Shakespeare play, but this 1945 film is still a powerful production from many standpoints.
The color, the sets, the expanse and the imaginative quality of the filming are unexcelled.
If it has power now, it's for Larry's commanding soldier-king and for his audacious sub-Brechtian adapatation, which scythes the text to reveal the heart - notably in the extraordinary, moving, pre-battle 'A little touch of Harry' exposing cold fear's co
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