Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Jul 9, 1950 Wide
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The first of actor Burt Lancaster's filmic associations with partner Harold Hecht, The Flame and the Arrow finds Lancaster cast as Dardo, an Italian Robin Hood battling the occupying Hessian troops. Dardo's stake in the matter becomes personal when his former wife Francesca (Lynne Baggett) moves in with Hessian leader Allenby (Robert Douglas). Francesca demands that the Hessians reclaim her son from Dardo; in retaliation, Dardo kidnaps Anne (Virginia Mayo), Allenby's niece. Allenby responds to
Jul 9, 1950 Wide
Oct 23, 2007
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (11) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (0) | DVD (3)
Fun swashbuckler with inventive touches.
Has Burt as acrobatic as you'll ever see him.
Early Lancaster in Errol Flynn-type Robin Hood role; great acrobatics, comedy, action.
If somebody made the picture today, the filmmaker would undoubtedly stretch things out another hour, add a ton of CGI special effects, and bore us to death.
...the actor's first big adventure frolic, and it comes off rather well. (Burt Lancaster Signature Collection)
Lancaster swashbuckles with irresistible energy ...
Directed by Jacques Tourneur, this entertaining Burt Lancaster's Errol Flynn-like swashbuckling adventure was desrervedly nominated for some technical Oscars.
I am a fan of the swashbuckling genre, so i couldnīt miss this. This movie owns a lot to the adventures of robin hood, but still has something to call is own. The plot is very left-wing, almost communist(the writer of this movie was later blacklisted). This flick has good acrobatics(lancaster on the top of his
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