The Golden Blade (1953)

Director:

Nathan Juran

Writers:

William R. Cox (writer)
John Rich (screenplay)
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Release Date:

12 agosto 1953 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure

Frase comercial:

His Blade Of Gold... A Legend In Battle! Her Kiss Of Surrender... The Prize Of Victory!

Plot:

Harum (Rock Hudson) is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan (Piper Laurie)...

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Swashbuckler

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Lively, physically beautiful, with delightful comedy and John Rich's script

Cast

Rock Hudson	...	Harun
Piper Laurie	...	Princess Khairuzan
Gene Evans	...	Capt. Hadi
George Macready	...	Jafar
Kathleen Hughes	...	Bakhamra
Steven Geray	...	Barcus
Edgar Barrier	...	Caliph
Alice Kelley	...	Handmaiden
Anita Ekberg	...	Handmaiden
Erika Nordin	...	Handmaiden (as Erika Norden)
Valerie Jackson	...	Handmaiden
Victor Romito	...	Sherkan (as Vic Romito)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Jack Baston	...	Chamberlain (uncredited)
Richard Carlson	...	Narrator (uncredited)
George Chirello	...	Artist (uncredited)
Martin Cichy	...	Adjustment (uncredited)
Dorinda Clifton	...	Dancer (uncredited)
Fred Graham	...	Sergeant (uncredited)
Renate Hoy	...	Handmaiden (uncredited)
Harry Lang	...	Magician (uncredited)
Dayton Lummis	...	Munkar (uncredited)
Olga Lunick	...	Tavern Dancer (uncredited)
Harry B. Mendoza	...	Chinese Magician (uncredited)
Bill Radovich	...	Eunuch (uncredited)
Dennis Weaver	...	Rabble Rouser (uncredited)
Mel Welles	...	(uncredited)
Guy Williams	...	Town Crier (uncredited)
Harry Wilson	...	Old Soldier (uncredited)
Zacharias Yaconelli	...	Waiter (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Nathan Juran

Créditos del guión (in alphabetical order)
William R. Cox		writer
John Rich		screenplay
John Rich		story

Producida por
Leonard Goldstein	....	producer
Richard Wilson	....	producer

Música original por
Irving Gertz		(uncredited)
Herman Stein		(uncredited)

Fotografía por
Maury Gertsman

Montaje por
Ted J. Kent

Dirección artística
Bernard Herzbrun
Eric Orbom

Decorados
Russell A. Gausman
Julia Heron

Diseño de vestuario por
Jay A. Morley Jr.

Departamento de maquillaje
Joan St. Oegger	....	hair stylist
Bud Westmore	....	makeup artist

Ayudante de dirección
William Holland	....	assistant director

Departamento de sonido
Leslie I. Carey	....	sound
Corson Jowett	....	sound

Editorial Department
William Fritzsche	....	color consultant

Music Department
Joseph Gershenson	....	musical director
Henry Mancini	....	composer: additional music (uncredited)
Milton Rosen	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Hans J. Salter	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)
Frank Skinner	....	composer: stock music (uncredited)

Otros miembros del equipo
Ralph Faulkner	....	fight choreographer
Eugene Loring	....	choreographer

Production Companies

• Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributors

• Universal Pictures (1953) (USA) (theatrical)

También conocida como:

Espada de Damasco, La (Spain) [es]
Espada invencible, La (Chile) [es]

Duración:

81 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (PCA #16383) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15

Company:

Universal International Pictures (UI)

Lively, physically beautiful, with delightful comedy and John Rich's script

Young Piper Laurie and handsome newcomer Rock Hudson were both featured to great advantage in this clearly-plotted and lively adventure-comedy. Imaginative veteran Nathan Juran directs very accurately and imaginatively, and the acting by George Macready as the ambitious villain, aided by Gene Evans (not quite up to a classical accent) and Kathleen Hughes and that of their opponents played by Edgar Barrier, the crafty Stephen Geray and others is above average for any genre. Adding to the fun is lovely Laurie impersonating a boy, a mysterious magic sword (which in lesser hands would have been a detriment) and its magical unwillingness to obey other than a virtuous owner. There is a prolonged sequence when various magicians attempt to remove the sword--which Macready needs to claim the throne--that has become embedded in a wall, and more physically colorful and beautifully-realized scenes than in any ten mean-streets melodramas of the post 1970s. If you do not fall in love with the spirited Khairozan, as Hudson does in the film, then you are probably dead. If you cannot delight in this youthful and stirring adventure of a bygone era, you had best give Grecianized Near-Easterns, our richest adventure genre in so many ways, a consistent miss.