Sylva Koscina, as Clorinda, and Andrea Aureli in THE MIGHTY CRUSADERS (1957)
I love this movie. I even made a Fan Dub of it (which was copied everywhere on the internet). I know this movie. There's only one thing I'm sorta confused by it. How did Clorinda became a warrior...a Muslim warrior combating, and falling in love, with a crusader (Francisco Rabal)? Now, I just checked Google AI (which is politically correct) and asked if there were female Muslim warriors during the Crusades. AI said yes but they mostly worked alongside their husbands. One has to take AI with a massive grain of salt but supposed this was true, how did Clorinda, who is single (and promised to Andrea Aureli's character), become an independent Muslim female warrior? I don't care about the accuracy. The movie is highly entertaining as it overlooks the major religious aspects of the story and focuses on the Crusader men falling in love with the Muslim women (Koscina and Gianna Maria Canale). And was most likely inspired by ROLAND THE MIGHTY (1956) but it's something I always wondered. Anyway, this sorta unlikely set-up still leads to a great ending, which is why I always overlook this confusing aspect of the story. And Sylva Koscina is great a Clorinda.
