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The Flame and the Arrow

1950

Jacques Tourneur

Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Nick Cravat, Robert Douglas ...

7.4

7,166

Adventure Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than embittered, still has little interest in joining the rebels. But this changes when his son, too, is taken from him. The rest is lighthearted swashbuckling, plus romantic interludes with lovely hostage Anne. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Tourneur, working with a script by Waldo Salt, turns the medieval action-adventure tale into a symbol of the French Resistance in the Second World War"	POS

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