Historical accuracy, be damned

[todayiamadaisy]

So I was all set for a quiet Sunday afternoon reading my book and watching the tennis when I turned on the TV and was distracted by Rex Harrison dressed as an Arab and referred to by a Robin Hood-type character as a "heathen fakir". Just as I was thinking that entertainment doesn't come any better than that, Rex the Fakir picked up a zither and began to croon. Rex turned out to be Saladin in disguise, while the film also featured a blonde woman saying, "War, war - that's all you think of, Dick Plantagenet!" to King Richard III, Christians and Saracens alike speaking with clipped English accents and wearing matching pointy goatees, and several battles fought with rubber swords.

They don't make films like that anymore.