The first CINEMASCOPE film made in WARNERCOLOR by Warner Bros., this made-in-America STEREOPHONIC movie is an epical, romantic adaptation based on the historical novel THE TALISMAN, written in 1825 by the Scottish author, essayist, judge and historian Sir Walter Scott about the Crusades on the Holy Lands. After the BETROTHED, the novel THE TALISMAN is the 2nd part of Sir Walter Scott's novel TALES OF THE CRUSADERS which, again, is a subset of his WAVERLEY novels (for his full work, you must see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott). Τhe final screenplay was written by the American screenwriter and producer John Twist. The movie was produced by the German assistant director, producer and supervisor Henry (Heinz) Blanke (who lived permanently at Hollywood after 1931) and was filmed at Yuma (ARIZONA) & Ventura and Warner Bros' studios in Iverson Ranch (CALIFORNIA). It was directed by the American actor, screewriter, theater manager, director and producer David Butler (who had survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and then lived at Arcadia, CALIFORNIA). Music by the legendary Jewish Austrian pianist, composer and conductor Max -Maximilian Raoul- Steiner who worked in England aged 16 at 1904 and lived in the U.S. since 1914 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Steiner). The movie is widely known as RICHARD THE LIONHEART or THE MAGIC AMULET. For info about Richard the Lionheart, seehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England A decent review of the film, here https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4013971/?ref_=tt_urv SIR WALTER SCOTT'S INTRO to The Talisman: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1377/pg1377-images.html