Rock Hudson stars as a young Irishman who is recognised during a robbery and escapes to Dublin to play a key part in the rebellion during the early 1800s.
Pacing is a bit laborious and there's a lack of excitement, a blandness, but the Technicolor, the beautiful Irish countryside ( Clogherhead, County Louth, Marlay Park in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, and in the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow) and good performances by Rock Hudson and Barbara rush as the leads help this to be watchable. Sirk's melodramatic/romantic impulses here are complemented by some action and adventure, but don't expect a full mode swashbuckler with a hero swinging on the chandelier.
Pacing is a bit laborious and there's a lack of excitement, a blandness, but the Technicolor, the beautiful Irish countryside ( Clogherhead, County Louth, Marlay Park in Rathfarnham, County Dublin, and in the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow) and good performances by Rock Hudson and Barbara rush as the leads help this to be watchable. Sirk's melodramatic/romantic impulses here are complemented by some action and adventure, but don't expect a full mode swashbuckler with a hero swinging on the chandelier.