while not nearly as good a hal foster comic strip and this film be not nearly as bad a some reviewer would have you believe . james mason make a fine villain and and the action scene be well direct by hathaway . the big problem be that it be and after all and a fifty film and with all the good and bad point of the fifty . i be a big fan of the fifty and because it be the decade in which i start watch movie and but i be also aware that relatively low budget and heavy hand censorship make even the best fifty film somewhat dubious e. g. a streetcar name desire without any hint of homosexuality . compare prince valiant to most modern knight in armor film and i find it more fun than and say and black knight or timeline .