The Iron Crown

The Iron Crown (1941)

La corona di ferro

LAVISH SSPECTACLE - Bigger than "Quo Vadis"..Greater than "Ben-Hur"..Gigantic Battle Scenes! Cast of 1,000's!

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.

Date of release
1941-09-07
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Adventure, Fantasy
Director
Alessandro Blasetti

Casting

Interesting facts

The Iron Crown is a 1941 Italian historical fantasy film written and directed by Alessandro Blasetti, starring Massimo Girotti and Gino Cervi. The narrative revolves a sacred iron crown and a king who is prophesied to lose his kingdom to his nephew. It blends motifs from several European myths, legends and modern works of popular fiction. The film won a Coppa Mussolini award, which is the ancestor to the Golden Lion.

Production

The film had an unusually large budget and was filmed on elaborate sets at the newly built Cinecittà studios. It stands out in Blasetti's filmography, as several of his most famous films instead were shot on location and used non-professional actors, whereas this was instead a big budget, controlled, set structured production.

The Italian actress Vittoria Carpi in an uncredited role shows a bare breast for moments in the film, and may have been the first actress to do so in an Italian sound film. However, the credit for this is normally given to Clara Calamai in Blasetti's next film, La cena delle beffe (1941), probably because Calamai is the protagonist of that film.

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