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23 May 1953 (USA) morePlot:
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Disappointing... moreCast
(Credited cast)| Yvonne De Carlo | ... | Droucette | |
| Rock Hudson | ... | Gilliatt | |
| Maxwell Reed | ... | Rantaine | |
| Denis O'Dea | ... | Lethierry | |
| Michael Goodliffe | ... | Ragan | |
| Bryan Forbes | ... | Willie | |
| Jacques B. Brunius | ... | Fouche | |
| Ivor Barnard | ... | Benson | |
| Arthur Wontner | ... | Baron de Baudrec | |
| Gérard Oury | ... | Napoleon | |
| Larry Taylor | ... | Blasquito (as Laurie Taylor) | |
| Keith Pyott | ... | General Latour | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Reed De Rouen | |||
| Michael Mulcaster | |||
| Rene Poirier | |||
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West Germany:6 (f) | Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #16054)Fun Stuff
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This is a disappointing minor swashbuckler considering it was written by a fairly competent screenwriter (Borden Chase) and directed by the usually dependent Raoul Walsh. Rock Hudson plays a fisherman turned smuggler during the Napoleonic wars who becomes embroiled in some routine espionage shenanigans after falling for Yvonne De Carlo. Hudson has a sidekick in the bizarre diminutive form of Bryan Forbes, who looks faintly ridiculous in the role of a spirited, hard-drinking smuggler. Their relationship put me in mind of the great Errol Flynn and Alan Hale flicks of the 30s and 40s, which was a bad thing for this film because Hudson and Forbes are no Flynn and Hale.
Hudson's character is as dislikeable as it's possible for a movie hero to be. he has the moody, impetuous temperament of a lovesick schoolboy for much of the film, and it's no coincidence that the film livens up only when he is off-screen. He spends much of his time on-screen dramatically baring his nipples and striking manly poses which should, when you think about it, lend this effort a fairly high camp quotient, but strangely the film stubbornly refuses to develop any kind of character. The ending, when it finally, belatedly arrives, is as rushed and anti-climactic as you are likely to find...