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Title: thumbs down
Review: It's a bit much asking us to buy a video for the orchestration and costumes. I didn't pay much attention to the costumes, but as it happens, I found the orchestration rather syrupy. (Newman tries hard to turn "If Ever I Would Leave You" into "The Street Where You Leave" and fails. The movie would be better off if he didn't try so hard.) In any case, a musical in which "it's the music that counts" is a musical in which the principals have voices and actually sing their songs. Lowe's work is slaughtered here. Some points of (possible) interest: Lancelot's songs are dubbed in (by someone other than Franco Nero); Guenevere's songs are not: Redgrave sings them--sort of. Arthur never calls Guenevere "Ginny"; he calls her "Jenny". (Those who have read the book--"The Once and Future King"--know this. Those who have not read the book ought to.)
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