Trial by Combat (US title: Dirty Knights' Work) is a 1976 British action adventure comedy film directed by Kevin Connor and starring John Mills and Donald Pleasence.

Plot

A British organisation known as the Knights of Avalon is discontent that so many criminals can evade the law. So they decide to secretly hunt down these criminals, and battle and execute them with medieval weapons.

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One day the founder of the organisation, Sir Edward Gifford, witnesses their actions, and they execute him too. His son, Sir John Gifford, decides to investigate his father's murder.

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Cast

John Mills as Colonel Bertie Cook

Donald Pleasence as Sir Giles Marley

Barbara Hershey as Marion Evans

David Birney as Sir John Gifford

Margaret Leighton as Ma Gore

Peter Cushing as Sir Edward Gifford

Brian Glover as Sidney Gore

John Savident as Police Commissioner Oliver Griggs

John Hallam as Sir Roger

Keith Buckley as Herald

Neil McCarthy as Ben Willoughby

Thomas Heathcote as Tramp

Bernard Hill as 'Blind' Freddie

Diane Langton as Ruby

Roy Holder as William Renfield

References

External links

1976 films

Films directed by Kevin Connor

British action films

1970s action films

British serial killer films

British vigilante films

1970s English-language films

1970s British films

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