The Flame and the Arrow (1950)

Director:

Jacques Tourneur

Guionista:

Waldo Salt (written by)

Release Date:

9 julio 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Romance

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Italy | Lombardy | Hunter | Bear Cub | Ancient Ruins

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

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Cast

Burt Lancaster	...	Dardo Bartoli
Virginia Mayo	...	Anne de Hesse
Robert Douglas	...	Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
Aline MacMahon	...	Nonna Bartoli
Frank Allenby	...	Count Ulrich aka The Hawk
Nick Cravat	...	Piccolo
Lynn Baggett	...	Francesca (as Lynne Baggett)
Gordon Gebert	...	Rudi Bartoli, Dardo's Son
Norman Lloyd	...	Apollo, the Troubador
Francis Pierlot	...	Papa Pietro
Robin Hughes	...	Skinner
Victor Kilian	...	Apothecary Mazzoni

También conocida como:

The Hawk and the Arrow (USA) (working title)
Halcón y la flecha, El (Spain) [es]

Duración:

88 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Norway:A (1950) | UK:U | Finland:K-16 (1951) | Finland:K-12 (1972) | West Germany:12 (nf) | France:U | Sweden:Btl

Filming Locations:

Corriganville, Ray Corrigan Ranch, Simi Valley, California, USA

Company:

Norma-F.R. Productions

Trivialidades:

Nick Cravat, who plays Piccolo, was an acrobat who was teamed with Burt Lancaster before Lancaster became a star. He appears in many of Lancaster's movies. In this one, and in The Crimson Pirate (1952), he plays a mute. The reason was that his thick Brooklyn accent, which he could not lose, would have been wildly out of place in such period pieces.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Just as the boy Rudy is captured by the soldiers (and when he should be frightened), you see him grinning quite broadly at someone off-camera.

Quotes:

Skinner: ...we're civilized and the art of civilization is doing natural things in an unnatural way.

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Story is about 12th Century Lombardy under the iron heel of German Overlord Count Ulrich "the Hawk', but guerrillas resist. The plot begins five years before this time when Ulrich steals away the pretty wife of Archer Dardo who has no interest in joining the rebels. But this changes when his son is take from him. Burt Lancaster plays Dardo and Virginia Mayo plays his wife Anne. What steals away from the movie are the real actual acrobatics of warfare in those days. Fantastic circus performers show their skills. Lancaster, himself, was a circus performer, and certainly shows his muscular skills in this! Great fun!