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By Guy D. Garcia

There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries removed, that is. Moore, 22, plays Mathilda, an independent young medieval miss who disguises herself as a knight to go in search of Richard the Lionhearted. Actually, the movie is her second screen appearance. At seven, she did a small part in an episode of her father's TV series The Persuaders. "We are an acting family," she notes proudly. Pater Roger agrees and is "delighted" with his daughter's new career. "I'm sure she will be better than I ever was," he says. "I am looking forward to being kept in my old age."