Most Americans know Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind, but he was an accomplished actor long before that. A stage actor, and a British film actor, before coming to America.
Here he plays a foppish dandy, much like Zorro, as he tries to spirit away French Aristocrats before they are guillotined.
While he is doing that, he has trouble at home with his wife, the lovely Merle Oberon, who testified and sent a family to that same guillotine.
You won't find a great amount of action here, unlike the familiar Zorro films with a similar theme. It is a play more than anything, and an excellently written one at that. We can thank Oscar winner Robert E. Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives, Rebecca) for that.
Seeing Raymond Massey (Dr. Leonard Gillespie in "Dr. Kildare"), and Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone), only added to the pleasure.
Excellent film.
Here he plays a foppish dandy, much like Zorro, as he tries to spirit away French Aristocrats before they are guillotined.
While he is doing that, he has trouble at home with his wife, the lovely Merle Oberon, who testified and sent a family to that same guillotine.
You won't find a great amount of action here, unlike the familiar Zorro films with a similar theme. It is a play more than anything, and an excellently written one at that. We can thank Oscar winner Robert E. Sherwood (The Best Years of Our Lives, Rebecca) for that.
Seeing Raymond Massey (Dr. Leonard Gillespie in "Dr. Kildare"), and Nigel Bruce (Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone), only added to the pleasure.
Excellent film.