Le capitaine Fracasse (1961)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Writers:

Pierre Gaspard-Huit (adaptation)
Théophile Gautier (novel)

Release Date:

21 April 1961 (France)

Genre:

Action | Adventure

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel | Character Name In Title

Cast

Jean Marais	...	Baron Philippe de Sigognac / Capitaine Fracasse
Geneviève Grad	...	Isabelle
Gérard Barray	...	Duc de Vallombreuse
Riccardo Garrone	...	Lampourde
Anna-Maria Ferrero	...	Marquise des Bruyères
Danielle Godet	...	Serafina
Sophie Grimaldi	...	Zerbine
Guy Delorme	...	Un homme du prince de Moussy
Sacha Pitoëff	...	Matamore
Philippe Noiret	...	Hérode
Louis de Funès	...	Scapin
Jean Rochefort	...	Malartic
Bernard Dhéran	...	Chevalier de Vidalenc
Alain Saury	...	Agostin
Maurice Teynac	...	Marquis des Bruyères

Also Known As:

Capitan Fracassa (Italy)
Captain Fracasse (International: English title)
El capitán Fracassa (Spain)

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

France | Spain | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-12 | Spain:T

Company:

Documento Films

Movie Connections:

Remake of Capitan Fracassa (1940)

Swashbuckler!

The 1955-65 era was the French swashbuckler heyday and Jean Marais was the hero of that generation.He had given up his artistic ambitions of the Cocteau period ("la Belle et la Bete" " les parents terribles" ),but his panache and his charisma remained intact.Pierre Gaspard-Huit is not much of a director ,but it's adapted from a Theophile Gautier novel and there's a good cast featuring Louis de Funes and Gerard Barray (later,Duvernois in "abre los oyos")who was some Marais 's alter ego and who plays the villain here.The ending is melodramatic to a fault -but so was Gautier's novel-and anyway Marais's acrobatic feats (no stunt double,what contemporary actor can say the same?)are all that counts.