The Crusades ( The Crusades ) is an American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille , released in 1935 .
Technical sheet
- Title: The Crusades
- Original title: The Crusades
- Director: Cecil B. DeMille
- Scenario: Harold Lamb , Waldemar Young and Dudley Nichols
- Production: Cecil B. DeMille and Henry Herzbrun (uncredited)
- Production and Distribution Company: Paramount Pictures
- Music: Rudolph G. Kopp , Herman Hand , W. Franke Harling , Friedrich Hollaender , John Leipold , Milan Roder and Heinz Roemheld
- Photograph: Victor Milner , assisted by William C. Mellor (camera operator, uncredited), Russell Harlan (first assistant operator, uncredited) and Lloyd Ahern (second assistant operator, uncredited)
- Editing: Anne Bauchens (uncredited)
- Artistic direction: Roland Anderson (uncredited)
- Costumes: Travis Banton
- Visual Effects: Gordon Jennings and Dewey Wrigley (uncredited)
- Country of origin: United States
- Format: Black and White – Sound: Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
- Genre: Adventure Movie
- Duration: 125 minutes
- Release dates:
- United Kingdom :(world premiere in London )
- United States :(first in New York ), (national release)
- France :
Distribution
- Loretta Young : Bérangère of Navarre
- Henry Wilcoxon : Richard the Lionheart
- Ian Keith : Saladin
- Charles Aubrey Smith : The hermit
- Katherine DeMille : Princess Alice of France
- Joseph Schildkraut : Conrad of Montferrat
- Alan Hale : Blondel, the troubadour
- C. Henry Gordon : Philip II of France
- George Barbier : Sanche VI of Navarre
- Montagu Love : The blacksmith
- Lumsden Hare : Count Robert of Leicester
- William Farnum : Hugo, Duke of Burgundy
- Pedro de Cordoba : Karakush
- Mischa Auer : The monk
- Albert Conti : Leopold, Duke of Austria
- Fred Malatesta : William, King of Sicily
- Uncredited Actors
- John Carradine : Voice of Leopold of Austria
- Harold Goodwin : A wounded soldier
- Jason Robards Sr .: Anquil
- Ann Sheridan : Christian slave girl
- Colin Tapley : Foreign Messenger