questionable · Unknown

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Tay Garnett · 106 minutes

A bump on the head sends Hank Martin, 1905 auto mechanic, to Arthurian England, 528 A.D., where he is befriended by Sir Sagramore le Desirous and gains power by judicious use of technology. He and Alisande, the King's niece, fall in love at first sight, which draws unwelcome attention from her fiancée Sir Lancelot; but worse trouble befalls when Hank meddles in the kingdom's politics.

Comedy, Music, Romance, Fantasy

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

A borderline case: the temporal interpretation remains disputed. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Told in 1912 to Lord Pendragon at Camelot's ruins, the story follows the mechanic Hank Martin, knocked out in a storm, who wakes in Camelot in 528. Almost the whole film is his stay there: dubbed Sir Boss, he wins standing through modern know-how, falls for the king's niece Alisande and meddles in the kingdom's politics, until he is shot and returns to 1912 to meet her lookalike. The displacement drives the story, like Black Knight or The Visitors. It stays at 7 because it is a single fish-out-of-water trip with no temporal mechanics or lasting consequences, and the knock-out framing leaves it possibly a dream.

A head injury initiates the medieval adventure, but the film's dream framing makes literal displacement uncertain; retain for boundary review.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan39.9

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance7/10

high confidence

Quality consensus6.6/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 67.36 base × 59.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix, Murvyn Vye

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Releases & formats

6 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

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