A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
Martin Cichy
- Civilian
- (uncredited)
Walter De Palma
- Sergeant
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- Trivia"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on April 14, 1949 with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Helena Carter reprising their film roles of Flynn and Lady Benedetta.
- Crazy creditsUnusual for a movie as early as 1949, the cast lists and credits are presented at the end of the film.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Middle of the Night (1959)
- SoundtracksIRISH RECRUITING SONG
(uncredited)
Music by Frank Skinner
Lyrics Jack Brooks
Sung by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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Once again fooled by the score and the reviews and ended up in wasting money in getting the DVD.
The movie was good, had it been in Fairbank Sr's, and that too his early ones, say late '19s to early '20s. But considering that it is a '49 movie, the less said is better.
Mindless sword fights and big holes honeycomb the whole movie plot. The plot has been covered in all the reviews, so there is no use in repeating it. The swashbuckling hero meets perchance the dame in distress and rescues her, as well as the prize possession, the Napoleonic Plot expose she is carrying. naturally no one would pause to think, why she has to carry this extremely critical invasion expose, with handful of soldiers (three to be exact, if one includes the coachman as one) and why the Royal army itself didn't march to protect the borders.
The time and place has simply lost its significance. The fugitives, followed by the conspirators, go through arduous journey to Dublin, her father, the Viceroy's, territory. But at a certain point, while whiling away the time, his aides land up back into O'Flynn castle and discovers the mythical but real O'Flynn treasure, and that too in the nick of the moment bribe the army, and thereby save him from the court marshall. The distance between the seat of power and the different locations seemed to be very small, at least watching at the speed at which the people moved across them. A single man, often unarmed, against a well armed army and defeating them, even when they are militarily in a position of advantage and he isn't, is anyway something I have seen many times, and won't comment on.
Why the blackguard, who is incidentally betrothed to the heroine, has to move around with his mistress, and no one, except his people, are privy to that, and to top it all, he perchance having his own private party in the same inn, where O'Flynn and his men are having their drunken orgy, and why he has to at all show his face there, or unnecessarily provoke O'Flynn into a duel, by when he should have been well aware that his opponent was a mercenary, of repute, so the duel could have gone either way.
Not worth wasting the time, leave alone money, unless convert it into a silent movie, and transport it backwards in time by at least 30 years. At that time, well one could say it would deserve around 6.5 stars.
The movie was good, had it been in Fairbank Sr's, and that too his early ones, say late '19s to early '20s. But considering that it is a '49 movie, the less said is better.
Mindless sword fights and big holes honeycomb the whole movie plot. The plot has been covered in all the reviews, so there is no use in repeating it. The swashbuckling hero meets perchance the dame in distress and rescues her, as well as the prize possession, the Napoleonic Plot expose she is carrying. naturally no one would pause to think, why she has to carry this extremely critical invasion expose, with handful of soldiers (three to be exact, if one includes the coachman as one) and why the Royal army itself didn't march to protect the borders.
The time and place has simply lost its significance. The fugitives, followed by the conspirators, go through arduous journey to Dublin, her father, the Viceroy's, territory. But at a certain point, while whiling away the time, his aides land up back into O'Flynn castle and discovers the mythical but real O'Flynn treasure, and that too in the nick of the moment bribe the army, and thereby save him from the court marshall. The distance between the seat of power and the different locations seemed to be very small, at least watching at the speed at which the people moved across them. A single man, often unarmed, against a well armed army and defeating them, even when they are militarily in a position of advantage and he isn't, is anyway something I have seen many times, and won't comment on.
Why the blackguard, who is incidentally betrothed to the heroine, has to move around with his mistress, and no one, except his people, are privy to that, and to top it all, he perchance having his own private party in the same inn, where O'Flynn and his men are having their drunken orgy, and why he has to at all show his face there, or unnecessarily provoke O'Flynn into a duel, by when he should have been well aware that his opponent was a mercenary, of repute, so the duel could have gone either way.
Not worth wasting the time, leave alone money, unless convert it into a silent movie, and transport it backwards in time by at least 30 years. At that time, well one could say it would deserve around 6.5 stars.
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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