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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - 35mm print

Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
Still from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)

(Tay Garnett, US 1949, 106 min., 35mm)

Mark Twain's novel about a 20th-century New England blacksmith who wakes up in King Arthur's Camelot is given the big-production treatment in this lavish Technicolor adaptation that stars Bing Crosby, William Bendix, and Rhonda Fleming. Hank Martin magically awakens in 6th century England after a fall from a horse knocks him unconscious. Working his way to Camelot, Hank falls for the King’s niece (Rhonda Fleming), teaches the band how to swing, forges some anachronistic weaponry, and interrupts a coup d’état. For all of that it may still take a Farmer’s Almanac and a well-timed eclipse to save the day.

Event Details

Dryden Theatre
$9 members
$12 nonmembers
$5 students with ID

$5 17 and under

$4.50 Special Student Rate

Advance tickets encouraged.

Tickets no longer for sale

About This Series

Arthurian Films

The legends of King Arthur and his court have inspired countless works of fiction, theater, and opera, and films based on these tales have been around for more than a century. In conjunction with the Visualizing Camelot exhibition now on-view at the University of Rochester, the Dryden presents five such films from the 1940s to the 1980s.

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