This plot summary is about the movie only. The book has several more scenes than the movie and a less optimistic ending.

The hero of The Princess Bride is the handsome, yet lowly stable boy, Westley who falls in love with the daughter of the farmer, Buttercup. Buttercup keeps asking Westley to do things for her and Westley's only answer is "As you wish". She soon realizes that when he's saying "As you wish", what it means is "I love you". Westley leaves to make his fortune, promising to return, but his ship is attacked at sea by the Dread Pirate Roberts, who is notorious for taking no prisoners. After several years of fearing him dead, Buttercup is forced by the law of the land to marry Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), heir to the throne of Florin. Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ... This article is about the flower. ... The Dread Pirate Roberts was a fictional pirate in the novel and movie, The Princess Bride. ... Prince Humperdinck is the villain of William Goldmans 1973 comic adventure novel, The Princess Bride. ... Chris Sarandon Chris Sarandon (born July 24, 1942) is an American actor. ...

Westley returns in the later part as the Dread Pirate Roberts, when, after seemingly using the same wind as three men hired by Humperdinck to kill Buttercup and blame it on the neighbouring country, Guilder. He follows them to a cove and begins climbing the rope the men are using to climb the "Cliffs of Insanity" - a rather self-explanatory name. Vizzini, the head man (and also the shortest and weakest) orders the great fencer, Inigo Montoya to kill the "Man in Black". Upon reaching the top of the Cliffs, Westley draws his sword, but Inigo stops him and tells him to wait until he is ready. After the Dread Pirate finishes dumping rocks out of his boots, Inigo presents the story of his life, saying that he was after the six-fingered man who killed his father. When the duel finally commences, Inigo and the Man in Black surprise each other at their superior skill. Westley finally wins, but gives Inigo his life, then knocking him unconcious and running toward where Vizzini is hiding with Fezzik and Buttercup. The Dread Pirate Roberts was a fictional pirate in the novel and movie, The Princess Bride. ... A pirate digging for treasure. ... The Dread Pirate Roberts was a fictional pirate in the novel and movie, The Princess Bride. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Russian Ivan Tourchine and American Weston Kelsey fence in the second round of the Olympic Mens Individual Epee event at the Helliniko Fencing Hall on Aug. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Swiss longsword, 15th or 16th century A sword (from Old English sweord; akin to Old High German swerd lit. ... Polydactyly, or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly, is the anatomical abnormality of having more than the usual number of digits on the hands or feet. ... [[Media:Example. ...

Vizzini, realizing that Inigo Montoya has failed to stop the man in black, leaves Fezzik behind with orders to ambush and kill him. Fezzik, also honorable, makes himself known to the masked man and challenges him to a wrestling match. Though Fezzik is powerful, he is slow and used to throwing his weight around against swarms of men. The masked man uses this fact and his own agility against Fezzik, eventually climbing onto his back and using a sleeper hold against him, thus non-lethally disabling him. His parting words to Fezzik are, "I don't envy you the headache you will have when you awake. But, in the meantime, rest well and dream of large women.". A sleeper hold is a martial arts technique named for its ability to seemingly make an opponent fall asleep in its grips. ...

Finally, the masked man catches up with Vizzini, who is holding Buttercup hostage, and proposes a "battle of the wits to the death". Vizzini must choose between two cups of wine, one of which the man says has been poisoned with 'iocane powder'. After trying to cheat, Vizzini loses the battle of wits and dies: the masked man, having previously developed an immunity to iocane, has poisoned both cups. The masked man takes Buttercup with him as he flees from Prince Humperdinck, who is now in pursuit of his fianceè's kidnappers. Buttercup deduces that the man in black is the Dread Pirate Roberts, but it is only after she shoves him down a steep hill and hears him shout "As you wish!" that she realizes he is her long-lost love. Iocane powder is a fictional poison used in a battle of the wits in William Goldmans classic novel The Princess Bride. ...

It turns out that the former Dread Pirate Roberts had indeed attacked Westley's ship, but had made an exception and kept Westley alive after Westley said to him "Please, I need to live". Eventually, Roberts secretly retired, passing the name and the ship on to Westley; Roberts' name had originally been Ryan (it turns out that by then the name Roberts was just a nom de guerre), and he had inherited the ship and name from another faux Roberts, who was originally named Cummerbund, who had inherited the name and ship from the original Dread Pirate Roberts, who had retired 15 years earlier to Patagonia. A pseudonym or allonym is a name (sometimes legally adopted, sometimes purely fictitious) used by an individual as an alternative to their birth name. ... // For the town, see Patagonia, Arizona. ...

After surviving the three terrors of the Fire Swamp (Lightning Sand, spurts of fire from the ground and the ROUSs, or Rodents Of Unusual Size), the two are captured by Prince Humperdinck and the menacing Count Rugen (Christopher Guest), who, incidentally, has six fingers on his right hand. Buttercup is returned to the palace to await her wedding – which, now that she knows Westley is alive, is a fate worse than death. Westley is taken by Count Rugen to the Pit of Despair, where he is tended to by an albino (Mel Smith). He there learns that he is to be tortured - for the Count's "Pain research" purposes - by a device of the Count's own design, "The Machine," which functions by sucking life from its victim. Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel in This is Spinal Tap. ... Polydactyly, or polydactylism, also known as hyperdactyly, is the anatomical abnormality of having more than the usual number of digits on the hands or feet. ... Mel Smith Mel Smith is an English actor, film director, writer, producer born in London on December 3, 1952) He attended New College, Oxford. ...

Inigo Montoya and Fezzik meet up again, and Inigo learns of the existence of Count Rugen and the capture of Westley. They decide to go on a quest to avenge Montoya's father's death and prevent the marriage of Buttercup and Humperdinck. Finding that Westley has been tortured to death by the Prince, they turn to Miracle Max (Billy Crystal), a washed-up wizard who was fired by Prince Humperdinck, and his wife Valerie (Carol Kane), who pronounce Westley to be merely "mostly dead" and resurrect him. Westley comes up with a plan to invade the castle, which succeeds, putting the three of them inside. They are split up, Montoya meets and defeats his father's killer, and Westley bluffs his way out of a swordfight with Prince Humperdinck, despite hardly having the strength to stand. In classic fairy-tale style, the party rides off into the sunset on conveniently-provided white horses. Miracle Max is the washed-up wizard fired by Prince Humperdinck in the novel and 1987 movie, The Princess Bride, and is played by Billy Crystal in the movie (Both characters, in book and movie, had cameo roles. ... Crystal on Hollywood Squares. ... Valerie is the mother of and Yua from Breath of Fire 2. ... Carol Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress from Cleveland, Ohio. ...