Feature1946·117m·6.7

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During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.

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Cast

Stewart Granger

Richard Darrell

Jean Kent

Rosal

Anne Crawford

Oriana Camperdene

Dennis Price

Sir Francis Castleton

Robert Helpmann

Wycroft

Gerard Heinz

Don Carlos

Enid Stamp-Taylor

Bertha (as Enid Stamp Taylor)

David Horne

Camperdene

John Salew

Diego

Arthur Goullet

Suiza

Julian Somers

Manoel

Pete Murray

Juan (as Peter Murray)

Gypsy Petulengro

Paco

Sylvie St. Clair

Marie (as Sylvia St. Clair)

Henry Morrell

Cumbermere

Victoria Campbell

Fanny

Mabel Constanduros

Woman

Josef Ramart

Jose

Erin De Selfa

Singer in Cafe

Philip Guard

Young Francis

Details

Status: Released
Original language: English
Languages: English
Budget: —
Revenue: —
Age rating: —
Quality: 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production: Gainsborough PicturesJ. Arthur Rank Organisation

Crew

Director

Arthur Crabtree

Writers

Eleanor Smith, Roland Pertwee

Elizabeth Haffenden

Costume Design

Stephen Dade

Director of Photography

Charles Knott

Editor

Gallery

Reviews

CinemaSerf

7/7/2022

6.0

This is quite an entertaining melodrama than really belongs to the devious, cowardly Dennis Price as dodgy aristocrat "Sir Francis Castleton" who is out to steal the fair maiden "Oriana" (Anne Crawford) from her beau Stewart Granger ("Darrell") who is on a mission to return a valuable necklace to Spain. The plot has plenty going on, twists and turns, robbery, amnesia and betrayal - and luckily a bit of Jean Kent as the mischievous Gypsy "Rosal" who has a sultry quality (but who dances with two left feet). Crawford is fairly sterile as a heroine, the dialogue is a bit on the gloopy side and the staging at times too theatrical for the settings - but it is still an engaging team effort with plenty of comeuppances to be had at the end...