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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 and locates its roots in class warfare.
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The Flame and the Arrow
All the adventure a man can live, he lives.
1950 · 1h 28m · Approved
Adventure, History
Directed by
Jacques Tourneur
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The Flame and the Arrow
Overview
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Director and cast
- Jacques Tourneur Director
- Burt Lancaster as Dardo Bartoli
- Virginia Mayo as Anne de Hesse
- Robert Douglas as Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
- Aline MacMahon as Nonna Bartoli
- Frank Allenby as Count 'The Hawk' Ulrich
- Nick Cravat as Piccolo
- Lynn Baggett as Francesca
- Gordon Gebert as Rudi Bartoli, Dardo's Son
- Norman Lloyd as Apollo, the Troubador
- Victor Kilian as Apothecary Mazzoni
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