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Reign of Terror (1949)

Director: Anthony Mann

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From Time Out Film Guide

Co-scripted by Philip Yordan - who wrote Johnny Guitar as well as Mann's two great epics, El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire - this is a French Revolutionary drama made on the lines of Mann's films noirs like T-Men, with atmospheric camerawork by John Alton and ambitious art direction (the producer was William Cameron Menzies, who made Things To Come and designed Gone With the Wind). History is thrown to the wolves as Robert Cummings impersonates a public prosecutor and tries to overthrow the dictatorship of Robespierre (Basehart), whose incriminating 'Black Book' (furnishing the British release title) has been stolen. Historians will scoff and the casting is hardly French, but on its own terms the movie works very well.

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Cast & crew

Director: Anthony Mann

Producer: William Cameron Menzies

Cast: Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart, Norman Lloyd, Arnold Moss, Charles McGraw, Jess Barker, Beulah Bondi full cast

Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers

Duration: 89 mins


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