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
this by taking several locals as hostages. This can't go on forever, so Dardo surrenders to Allenby and resigns himself to be hanged. Dardo's cronies, an acrobatic troupe headed by Nick Cravat (Lancaster's former circus partner and lifelong crony), rescue all the good people and wipe out the bad. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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.
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
acrobatic skills), but depiste lancaster being one of my favorite actors i didnīt like his performance very much, he was smiling all the time, i tought that sometimes the humor was a litlle bit out of place.
But still this is a good entertaining piece.
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