Gawain and the Green Knight (film)

{{short description|1973 British film}}

{{about|the 1973 film|the 1984 version|Sword of the Valiant|the 2021 film|The Green Knight (film)}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2016}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Gawain and the Green Knight

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| director = Stephen Weeks

| producer = Carlo Ponti

| writer = Philip M. Breen
Stephen Weeks

| based_on = {{based on|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight||Anonymous}}

| starring = Murray Head
Nigel Green
Robert Hardy

| music = Ron Goodwin

| cinematography = Ian Wilson

| editing = John Shirley

| distributor = United Artists

| released = {{Film date|1973}}

| runtime = 93 minutes

| language = English

| country = United Kingdom

| budget =

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Gawain and the Green Knight is a 1973 British film directed by Stephen Weeks, and starring Murray Head as Gawain and Nigel Green in his final theatrical film as the Green Knight.{{Cite web |last=Eden |first=Michael |date=2023-07-08 |title=Sir Gawain and the Green Knight on Screen |url=https://www.trebuchet-magazine.com/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-on-screen/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=Trebuchet |language=en-GB}}{{cite web|url= https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/b466b713-a13b-5528-ac43-5e977c5fedea/gawain-and-the-green-knight|title=Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=3 November 2023}} The story is based on the medieval English tale Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and also Yvain, the Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes and the tale of Sir Gareth in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.{{Cite book |last=Harty |first=Kevin J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syUkCQAAQBAJ |title=Cinema Arthuriana: Twenty Essays, rev. ed. |date=2015-05-07 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0844-0 |pages=18–19 |language=en}}

Locations used included castles at Cardiff, Caerphilly and Castell Coch, Wales; Peckforton castle, Cheshire; and St Michael's Mount and Roche Rock, Cornwall. St. Govan's chapel on the Pembrokeshire coast was also featured.

Weeks remade the film in 1984 as Sword of the Valiant with Miles O'Keeffe and Sean Connery as Gawain and the Green Knight, respectively.