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{{short description|1995 medieval historical drama film by Jerry Zucker}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = First Knight
| image          = First_Knight_Poster.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Jerry Zucker]]
| producer       = [[Hunt Lowry]]<br />Jerry Zucker
| screenplay     = [[William Nicholson (writer)|William Nicholson]]
| story          = Lorne Cameron<br /> [[David Hoselton]]<br /> William Nicholson
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Sean Connery]]
* [[Richard Gere]]
* [[Julia Ormond]]
* [[Ben Cross]]}}
| music          = [[Jerry Goldsmith]]
| cinematography = [[Adam Greenberg (cinematographer)|Adam Greenberg]]
| editing        = [[Walter Murch]]
| studio         = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br>[[Jerry Zucker (film director)|Zucker Brothers Productions]]
| distributor    = [[Sony Pictures Releasing]]
| released       = {{film date|1995|7|7}}
| runtime        = 134 minutes
| country        = {{Plainlist |
* United States
* United Kingdom
}}
| language       = English
| budget         = $55 million
| gross          = $127.6 million
}}
'''''First Knight''''' is a 1995 [[medieval]] [[historical]] [[drama film]] based on [[King Arthur|Arthurian legend]], directed by [[Jerry Zucker]]. It stars [[Sean Connery]] as [[King Arthur]], [[Richard Gere]] as [[Lancelot]], [[Julia Ormond]] as [[Guinevere]] and [[Ben Cross]] as [[Maleagant|Malagant]].

The film follows the rogue Lancelot's romance with Lady Guinevere of [[Lyonesse|Leonesse]], who is to marry King Arthur of [[Camelot]], while the land is threatened by the renegade knight Malagant. The film is noteworthy within Arthurian cinema for its absence of magical elements, its drawing on the material of [[Chrétien de Troyes]] for plot elements and the substantial age difference between Arthur and Guinevere.<ref name ="hollywood knights">{{cite book|last=Aronstein|first=Susan |title=Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|date=September 2005| isbn=978-1-4039-6649-0}}</ref>