his throne. Prince John grudgingly kneels before his brother. Richard then calls on his kneeling people to rise, not as Normans or Saxons, but as Englishmen. Cast Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe Elizabeth Taylor as Rebecca Joan Fontaine as Rowena George Sanders as De Bois-Guilbert Emlyn Williams as Wamba - and Narrator (uncredited) Robert Douglas as Sir Hugh de Bracy Finlay Currie as Cedric Felix Aylmer as Isaac Francis De Wolff as Front de Boeuf Norman Wooland as King Richard Basil Sydney as Waldemar Fitzurse Harold Warrender as Locksley/Robin Hood Patrick Holt as Philip de Malvoisin Roderick Lovell as Ralph de Vipont Sebastian Cabot as Clerk of Copmanhurst John Ruddock as Hundebert Michael Brennan as Baldwin Megs Jenkins as Servant to Isaac Valentine Dyall as Norman Guard Lionel Harris as Roger of Bermondsley Carl Jaffe as Austrian Monk Guy Rolfe as Prince John May Hallatt as Elgitha (uncredited) Robert Brown as Castle Guard at Torquilstone (uncredited) Martin Benson as Jewish Delegate (uncredited) Jack Churchill as Archer on the walls of Torquilstone (uncredited) Production In 1951, the film's main scriptwriter, Marguerite Roberts, was ordered to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where she and her husband, John Sanford, cited the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions about whether they had been members of the American Communist Party. Consequently, they were both blacklisted, and MGM received permission from the Screen Writers Guild to remove Roberts' credit from the film. It would take nine years before she was allowed to work in Hollywood again. Roberts had already completed another screenplay for an MGM film, The Girl Who Had Everything. It was released early in 1953, but she wasn't credited. Scenes were filmed on soundstages at MGM-British Studios, Borehamwood, Herts, and on location at Doune Castle, Scotland. Both the Ashby-de-la-Zouch tournament and the Torquilstone Castle siege were shot on the large Borehamwood backlot. Woodland scenes were shot in Ashridge Forest, Herts and Bucks. The studio hired Jack Churchill, a British Second World War army officer (renowned for going into battle carrying a Scottish broadsword, longbow and bagpipes), to appear as an archer, shooting from the walls of Warwick Castle. Music Miklós Rózsa's score is one of his most highly regarded, and it received both Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. However, the composer was deeply disappointed with the film's treatment of Scott's novel, as he explained in his 1982 autobiography: In an interview