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Director Cecil B. DeMille used the same sets from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) in this film.
Stuntman Jack Montgomery, who played a Christian cavalryman in the film, recalled in an interview the tension that existed between director Cecil B. DeMille and the dozens of stuntmen hired to do the battle scenes. The stuntmen resented what they saw as DeMille's cavalier attitude about safety, especially as several stuntmen had been injured, and several horses had been killed, because of what the stuntmen perceived as DeMille's indifference. At one point DeMille was standing on the parapets of the castle, yelling through his megaphone at the "combatants" gathered below. One of them, who had been hired for his expertise at archery, finally tired of DeMille's screaming at them, notched an arrow into his bow and fired it at DeMille's megaphone, the arrow embedding itself into the megaphone just inches from DeMille's head. DeMille quickly left the set and didn't come back for the rest of the day. For the rest of the picture, he never yelled at the stuntmen again.
Loretta Young was pregnant with her daughter Judy Lewis during the shoot.
Although Cecil B. DeMille states in his autobiography that the film failed to be a financial success when released, it was listed as the box-office champion of 1935 in the 1936-37 issue of the Motion Picture Almanac.
A Paramount prop man, Daniel Ulrich, had his right leg crushed by the 35-ton siege tower used in the battle of Acre.
Continuity: Conrad and Prince John play a chess game in which Conrad makes four moves to John's one.
Continuity: In the battle before Jerusalem, the scenery alternates between desert and forest.
Anachronisms: Richard the Lionheart wears a wristwatch.
Anachronisms: Richard's coat of arms is shown as three lions. He did not adopt this device until 1198, four years after returning from the crusades.
Continuity: Katherine DeMille's name is spelled correctly in the opening credits, but her surname is spelled De Mille in the end credits.
Factual errors: Incorrect heraldry for the Marquisate of Montferrat (Monferrato), Italy. It is a band of red above white/silver. No chevrons, no snakes.
Factual errors: Conrad of Montferrat is depicted plotting at the French and English courts when he was already on the other side of the Mediterranean, gallantly defending the city of Tyre. His character, activities and the circumstances of his death are misrepresented and altered throughout.
Featured in
Hollywood Extra Girl (1935)
The Costume Designer (1950)
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