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Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. With Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans. A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed...

The War Lord is a 1965 film starring Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Guy Stockwell, Maurice Evans, Niall MacGinnis, Henry Wilcoxon and James Farentino, with Jon Alderson, Allen Jaffe, Sammy Ross, and Woodrow Parfrey. The film was directed by the future Oscar winning Director Franklin J. Schaffner, and the screenplay was by John Collier. The film is an adaptation of the play, The Lovers, written by Leslie Stevens, the creator of The Outer Limits. Up until this film, most Hollywood representations of feudal life were glamorized. The War Lord attempts to portray the 11th century in a more accurate fashion as dirty, violent and ruled by brute force. The social stratification imposed by feudalism governed every human relationship, with power devolving from the duke, to the knight, to the men at arms, the church and the peasantry at the very bottom.