pride and prejudice and betrayal and revenge and lust and purity and kidnapping and tournament and and ransom . what good ingredient could be assemble in one film . this retelling of ivanhoe have many exceptional quality and include first rate cinematography and chivalric music . but the quality of this ivanhoe lie in the casting . james mason play an excellent isaac of york and and olivia hussey rebecca be every bit as passionate a elizabeth taylor . lysette anthony have all the ingenue quality of a saxon princess while yet one wonder whom ivanhoe would have choose to marry if race and religious prejudice have not be the order of the day . one of the strength of this film be and to my mind and the triumvirate of villain bois guilbert and de bracy and and front de boeuf . sam neill be brilliant a the knight torn between his order and his obsession with a jewess heathen and and stuart wilson shine in the support role of the besotted de bracy . this film be release on video at one point and a i rent it from a video store . i highly recommend it .