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Sir George (Creator/GaryLockwood[[note]]Frank Poole from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''[[/note]]) is the foster son of Sybil (Creator/EstelleWinwood), an elderly witch. Not much is said about his background, other than that [[ParentalAbandonment his parents are dead]] and he is of RoyalBlood. He is secretly in love with Princess Helene (Anne Helm[[note]](Mary Briggs on ''Series/GeneralHospital'')[[/note]]), who is kidnapped early in the film by the evil wizard [[EvilSorcerer Lodac]] (Creator/BasilRathbone).

George wants to go on a quest to liberate his lady love, but Sybil believes he is too young. She comforts the youth by showing him a magic sword, a steed, a suit of armour, and a group of magically frozen knights -- all his to command when he turns 21. But the impatient George tricks Sybil into a locked underground cellar and immediately takes off with his magical implements and the revived company of knights.

''Sir'' George and his party then appear before the king, who looks like Grady from ''Series/SanfordAndSon'', and insist on journeying to Lodac's castle to rescue his daughter, even though this angers the knight who had previously been given the task. To save the princess Helene, George and his companions must go through Lodac's seven curses.

This 1962 fantasy adventure film, directed by Creator/BertIGordon and ''very'' loosely based on the legend of Myth/SaintGeorge and the Dragon, later had some of its footage reused in ''Film/TheManWhoSavesTheWorld''.

Not to be confused with the Creator/WarnerBros animated film ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'', which was released as ''The Magic Sword'' in some territories.

For the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode see ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E11TheMagicSword here]]''. Podcast/RiffTrax released their own version on August 14, 2015.

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!!The film contains examples of:
* AlternateDVDCommentary: Done by Rifftrax in 2015.
* AnimalReactionShot: For absolutely ''no'' reason, Sybil and George have a pet monkey whose only job is to briefly make funny reaction shots.
* BackFromTheDead: Sir George's band of knights somehow come back to life.
** Maybe Lodac's curses had NoOntologicalInertia.
** It's implied that Sybil did it somehow with Lodac's ring.
* BigBad: Lodac. He is an all-powerful sorcerer who lost his ring to Sir Branton, so the two have teamed up to help Sir Branton fake rescue Helene so he can marry her. If they pull off the scheme, Branton promised to give Lodac back the ring he stole to bring him back to his full powers.
* BMovie: It's a rather cheap looking production, the acting is hammy (especially the villain), and the protagonist George is a whiny little jerk.
* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Subverted; the French knight is probably the bravest out of the crew (except perhaps for Patrick). He almost gets done in by way of a different French stereotype, however: the horny Frenchman.
* CoolHorse: George's horse. Sybil mentions it's the fastest horse in all the land.
* CoolSword: George's sword. Tapping it against surfaces can cause magical openings to appear or it can close something that's already open. [[{{Jerkass}} Which George does to trap Sybil in the basement so he can go rescue Helene.]]
* CreditsGag: The person who worked the dragon puppet is listed in the credits as a "dragon trainer".
* CrystalBall: The magic pool George uses in his first appearance serves as this purpose in the story.
* DamselInDistress: Princess Helene. She gets about five lines of dialogue before an unnamed, unexplained entity appears to her and kidnaps her. It turns out the whole thing is a scheme by Sir Branton and Lodac. Branton stole Lodac's ring, so to get it back, he forces him to kidnap Helene so he can appear heroic and rescue her to win her hand in marriage. After this is done, he promised to return Lodac's magic ring. .
* DeathIsCheap: The party of knights drop like flies throughout the film, then are resurrected at the end in a blatant DeusExMachina.
* DisposableWoman: The two princesses before Princess Helena. They barely get any lines or screentime before their demises.
* DwindlingParty: George revives six knights from all parts of Europe to aid him on his quest, (Spain, France, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Italy), two of them die when facing the '''first''' of the seven deadly challenges between them and the wizard's castle.
* EngineeredHeroics: The entire kidnap plot is all a plan between Sir Branton and Lodac so Branton can "rescue" the Princess. Too bad for him that A) George and his knights join the party and B) Lodac has no intention of honoring the deal.
* EvilIsHammy: There was not a speck of set left after Basil Rathbone ate the entire thing whole in his performance.
* EvilPlan: Lodac kidnaps Princess Helene and holds her for ransom as vengeance for the King killing his sister.
* EvilSorcerer: Lodac. The silly headscarf and hammy acting makes it hard to take him seriously, but he is a relatively formidable enemy.
* FailureHero: George after losing his magic, only surviving the fifth curse because of a HeroicSacrifice, and only escaping his prison cell because the Little People rescue him. Ultimately, the only thing he accomplishes on his own merit rather than through Sybil's magic was to steal all the magical items that Sybil had made for him.
* ForcedTransformation: Lodac turned the Hag into a spider.
* GoodWitchVersusBadWitch: Sybil v Lodac. Notably, there never is an actual "magic duel", as Sybil states early on that she would be no match for Lodac. She defeats him in the end only after pilfering his magic ring during a moment of distraction.
* HereThereWereDragons: Lodac's obsessed with finding princesses to feed to his pet dragon. But when we do see the dragon in the final battle, it...leaves a lot to be desired, frankly. It is completely inert and just sits in one spot swinging its tail and shooting fire that doesn't burn George somehow. In the end, he easily walks up to it and stabs it to death.
* HeroicSacrifice: Patrick, already dying from the fifth Curse, sacrifices himself to help George escape.
* HeroSecretService: The frozen knights are this for George. They accompany him on the journey to rescue Helene and are only barely effective at it, as they all get killed off by the time he makes it to Lodac's castle.
* HeroicFantasy: The movie's genre is epic or high fantasy, featuring magic and dragons.
* InvincibleHero: George. His armor protects him from anything, his horse can run at super speed, and his enchanted sword can kill an ogre ''and'' a dragon in a single stab. In fact, it takes Sybil ''depowering'' him by accident to introduce anything resembling danger to the guy.
* FlatCharacter: George's companions, whose characterization ends at "loyal and brave". Most only have enough dialogue to introduce themselves to the King. Even Patrick and Dennis, the only knights with an appreciable role, get only rudimentary traits beyond their courage and loyalty (Dennis is a horny Frenchman who can't pass up a pretty girl to save his life, and Patrick [[TakeOurWordForIt is said to be the most devout]]).
* {{Jerkass}}: Sir Branton. After stealing Lodac's ring, he forces Lodac to kidnap Helene so he can rescue her and win her hand in marriage. He actively sabotages George the entire time they're on the journey together, getting every one of his knights killed. But fortunately, he does get his comeuppance in the end.
* KnightInShiningArmor: George and his Knights, literally. His armor is blessed with Sybil's magic, so it's also unbreakable.
* TheLancer: Sir Patrick is the closest of the Knights to George. He's always by his side, among the first (and most frequent) to voice his dislike and distrust of Branton, and is the last of the Knights to fall while aiding George on his quest.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In a rather strange case, the king appears to be a black man, yet Helene looks 100% white. They never mention what happened to the queen, so we don't know what her race was, but it's confusing as hell that the king is fairly dark skinned, yet Helene shows no trace of having a black parent and there isn't any dialogue about her being adopted.
* MagicMirror: Sybil's mirror. She looks into it to see where George has gone or what Lodac is up to.
* MasterOfIllusion: Lodac. We see him turn one of his minions into a spider as punishment.
* MauveShirt: George's team of knights all exist to be taken out by Lodac's curses. Sir Branton even lampshades it, commenting to himself how there's "seven swords" accompanying him to take on "seven curses".
* MultinationalTeam: George's band of knights. We have Spain, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Italy represented. It is probably not coincidence that the seven knights are named for the patron saints of said nations. George himself, and the general story, are loosely based upon Myth/SaintGeorge of England.
* MultipleHeadCase: Sybill and George have a two-headed Albino at home. It's unclear if they're just servants or if they're friends, as they have absolutely no plot relevance whatsoever and really just say inane things to support Sybil, so it's anyone's guess.
* NamedWeapons: The titular sword is named Ascalon.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Sybil mentions most of the items' magical powers, but a few just come out of nowhere, such as the sword being able to move on its own to rescue George, or the Hag-banishing shield.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: George speaks in a normal American accent rather than an English one or any other accent that he should have considering he lives somewhere in Europe. Helene doesn't have one either.
* ObviouslyEvil: Lodac. Pitch black sorcerer robes? Check. Blood red turban? Check. Unbelievable sadism and zero empathy for others? Check!
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Classic Western style, fire breathing and all.
* ParentalAbandonment: George is an orphan of RoyalBlood after his parents die of the plague.
* PokeInTheThirdEye: Lodac doesn't appreciate Sybil scrying on him with her magic mirror, so he undoes its magic (which resumbles an untuned television in practice) after taunting her.
* PowerGlows: George's sword glows when it does... whatever exactly it does. Also his shield when it's banishing Hags.
* PowerPerversionPotential: The pond [[CovertPervert George]] has been using to ''watch'' Princess Helene. ''While she's bathing. Without her permission.''
* TheQuest: George steals the magic weapons and takes the knights to go rescue Helene from Lodac. Sir Branton comes along to sabotage him so he can save her instead.
* RedshirtArmy: George's knightly companions are mainly there to be cannon fodder to show how dangerous the journey is.
* ReligionIsMagic: When he dies, Sir Patrick is able to save George from the current curse through the power of his faith.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After returning Lodac's ring, Sir Branton gets turned into a hunting trophy by Lodac.
* RingOfPower: Lodac's, which he lost. Branton found it, and it's how he's getting Lodac to help in the princess kidnapping gambit. In the end, Sybil gets it.
* RuleOfSeven: Lodac possesses seven curses to face all challengers to his power, including himself. Sir George and his entourage of knights make up a party of seven, as well. Sir Branton assumes that these numbers will cancel each other out and leave him the sole victor with Princess Helene, but his pride prevents this outcome.
* ShirtlessScene: George when he's locked up in Lodac's dungeon. It's weirder since there is no real reason for it other than being stripped of his armor--and even then he should've had a shirt on under it--and it becomes awful creepy when Lodac instructs Helene to passionately kiss George before he feeds her to the dragon ''[[AbhorrentAdmirer and Lodac stands there an inch away watching them kiss.]]''
* SkinnyDipping: Princess Helene is introduced swimming nude in a lake, [[OutdoorBathPeeping while George watches using the magic pool]].
* StalkingIsLove: George to Helene. He has been outright spying on her in the magic pool for an unspecified amount of time without her knowledge or consent, yet constantly insists he loves her and wants to marry her. Yes, it is as creepy as it sounds.
* StandardHeroReward: With George and Branton competing for it from Helene, who has no choice in the matter apparently.
* SuddenlyShouting: There is a bit where George loses track of the other knights in the fog, but then the Irish knight starts shouting at the top of his lungs and it's very jarring to anyone listening with headphones or with the volume up loud on their TV.
* SupervillainLair: Lodac has a pimped out castle full of his evil minions as well as the wimpiest dragon you'll probably ever see in your life. (It's quite literally made of paper mache and barely moves at all during the "fight" sequence at the end.)
* SwampsAreEvil: They suck up your dudes and [[StrippedToTheBone strip them to the bone]].
* TakeOurWordForIt: Lodac notes that it's Patrick's faith in God that helped him free George from the fifth Curse. However at no other point in the film do we ever see Patrick ''demonstrating'' his faith.
* TooDumbToLive: Sir Branton. He cannot be harmed by Lodac while wearing his RingOfPower. Instead of [[CombatPragmatist using this protection to finish off Lodac himself,]] he trades it for Princess Helene [[IGaveMyWord as per his agreement with Lodac,]] [[DidYouActuallyBelieve despite him questioning Lodac's own word]] [[FalseFriend and betraying his actual allies.]] This is especially bad since Branton had actually ''pointed out how stupid he would have to be to do this'' in an earlier scene.
** While the ring does protect Branton by wearing it, Lodac states that [[{{Muggles}} he has no way of using the ring's full potential]]. It is possible therefore that if Branton simply tried to run Lodac through, he may have ended up as a wall mount anyway.
* UpgradeArtifact: The titular "Magic Sword" and George's horse. As well as Lodac's ring, which turns him from one of the strongest wizards to THE strongest, and puts Sybil on his level when she gets it.
* TheVamp: The Hag, when she's putting on the {{Fanservice}}.
** Something of an ActorAllusion, the Hag's actress is better known as {{Creator/Vampira}}
* VirginSacrifice:
-->'''Lodac:''' My little pet will be ''hungry'' again in six days' time.\\
''(Dragon roars)''\\
'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow]]:''' Er, ''five'' days time.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Lodac and Sybil have the ability to change into birds, and Sybil can also change into a black panther. She uses the latter to kill Lodac at the end of the film.
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder: George's knights exist to get wiped out by the curses.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Ulrich and Pedro are the first of the knights to die.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: ''Every single knight.'' Not one of them has an authentic accent and is instead doing a very stereotypical one from whatever country they hail from and it gets pretty cringe when you hear them.
* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive: Lodac's final lines are spent monologing about how George and Helene are about to be destroyed by the seventh and final curse -- Lodac, himself.

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