Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1965 epic The War Lord stars Charlton Heston as Chrysagon, a Norman knight who is given a coastal village to protect against marauding Frisian pagans by the Duke of Normandy and falls in love with a pagan villager. The film is very much in line with many of Heston’s previous roles as well as Schaffner’s 1970 biopic of military le…
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