Scaramouche
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Actor: Eleanor Parker, Henry Wilcoxon, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Stewart GrangerBrand: GRANGER,STEWART
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 65710
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Let danger befall him. Let the winds of fate blow where they may. Andre Moreau will strike a blow for vengeance and the French Revolution. First, he must hone his skill with the blade. By day Andre secretly perfects his parries and lunges - and hides his true identity at night behind the mask of stage clown Scaramouche.A climactic duel that's one of the greatest sequences ever to lay steel to foe
Movie Reviews of Scaramouche
Movie Review: More than the"smirk with a dirk"
Summary: 5 Stars
The boy in me continues to love the swash and buckle genre of films. By the 50s, when I was growing up, Errol Flynn's heyday was long gone; I saw him only in pale imitations of former glories like The Master of Ballantrae and Against All Flags at the tail-end of his career. It was only the revival of Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk et al on television that finally made me aware that he was the greatest swashbuckler of them all.In the meantime, the only version of Robin Hood I was familiar with was Disney's (quite decent) account with Richard Todd and Joan Rice, bur neither actor set the world on fire for me as the legendary figures; matinee substitutes and re-runs spawned a few 40s and 50s imitations with Cornel Wilde turning up in the Son of...legendary heroes like Robin Hood and the Musketeers, but these, too, seemed like less than the real thing.
There was always the ubiquitous Burt Lancaster in his "Smilin' Burt" phase, too. I usually found Lancaster's acrobatics authentic and pretty heady stuff but a little too knowingly self-conscious to be completely believable (His Majesty O'Keefe, The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate were all deliciously enjoyable romps, but the last-mentioned especially was a little too close to parody).
Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Alan Ladd all turned up in historical adventures of one kind or another but I liked each of these performers much better in other genres (Hudson in Sirk melodramas, Curtis in comedy, Ladd in westerns).
However, at age 15, I caught the 1952 version of Scaramouche at a local matinee. Suddenly I became aware that Stewart Grasnger was the only actor around in the 50s capable of taking over the Flynn mantle. In this film, I discovered his flair, notwithstanding the trademark smirk, was beyond question and carried more conviction than Lancaster's or any of the other candidates for that matter.
Here again were great romantic moments being carried off with a stylish swagger recalling Flynn and De Havilland. I was captivated by his recitation of the "Aphrodite in a ditch" doggerel to wide-eyed Janet leigh as well as his bald-faced manipulation of fiery Eleanor Parker as his gypsy lover.
His swordplay, too, ranked with the best competition in the genre-from his first halting encounter with aristocratic villain Mel ferrer to the seven and a half minute climactic duel in the theatre where he at last, in true flamboyant mode, dishes out a well-deserved comeuppance to the man (Ferrer) who turns out to be his brother.
Director George Sidney, a past master of this kind of material (The Three Musketeers-Gene Kelly version), plunders Sabatini's tale set in France on the eve of the revolution for all its worth: Sidney had also made a number of distinguished MGM musicals-including The Harvey Girls and Show Boat, and choreographically stages his set-pieces like musical numbers which include lots of breakneck-paced horse riding and stirring action set around misty rural estates. Janet Leigh, with whom Granger falls immediately in love and who may or may not be his sister, is perfect as the innocent flower waiting to be plucked. Eleanor Parker as the experienced woman who becomes Leigh's co-conspirator delivers an all stops out portrait of a woman scorned, eyes blazing and long red tresses billowing.
The late eighteenth century period costumes and set designs have a kind of genre verisimilitude that constantly delights the eye. Victor Young's score is lush and memorable. And the Commedia dell'arte pantomime into which Granger is literally plunged becomes the focal point for some opulently staged and extended theatre, including a lot of very funny slapstick (in the original sense of the term). This film retains its freshness and delight in the present DVD rendering, from the insouciance of its opening epigraph ("He was born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad") to its perverse final moments showing Eleanor Parker with her surprising new amatory conquest.
Summary of Scaramouche
Scaramouche is the secret identity of a hero fighting for independence in the French Revolution.Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 1-JUL-2003
Media Type: DVD
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