Re: Ivanhoe (1982)
Saw your “DVD Picks” review of Ivanhoe in the National Catholic Register. You may remember that Anthony Andrews had just come of playing Lord Sebastian in “Brideshead Revisited.” I remember at the time some speculation that he took that to avoid getting subsequently typecast. (“Find me a role, any role, as long as it is as different from Sebasian as can be!”)
Of course, Andrews then went on to do The Scarlet Pimpernel, which sort of combined the swishy with the swashbuckling. (Swishbuckling?)