Scaramouche
(1952)
★ 7 IMDb · 107 votes
Year: 1952
Runtime: 115 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Стюарт Грейнджер, Eleanor Parker, Джанет Ли, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon, Нина Фош, Ричард Андерсон, Robert Coote, Льюис Стоун, Elisabeth Risdon
Plot
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Andre-Louis Moreau is a nobleman's bastard in the days of the French revolution. Noel, the Marquis de Mayne, a nobleman in love with the Queen, is ordered to seek the hand of a young ingenue, Aline, in marriage. Andre also meets Aline, and forms an interest in her. But when the marquis kills his best friend Andre declares himself the Marquis's enemy and vows to avenge his friend. He hides out, a wanted man, as an actor in a commedia troupe, and spends his days learning how to handle a sword. When de Maynes becomes a spadassinicide, challenging opposing National Assembly members to duels they have no hope of winning, Andre becomes a politician to protect the third estate (and hopefully ventilate de Maynes).