Dangerous Exile (1957)

Dangerous Exile (1957) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
88 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Brian Desmond Hurst

Written By:
Robin Estridge
Patrick Kirwan

Actors:
Louis Jourdan ..... Duke Philippe de Beauvais
Belinda Lee ..... Virginia Traill
Keith Michell ..... Colonel St. Gerard
Richard O'Sullivan ..... Louis XVII
Martita Hunt ..... Lady Lydia Fell
Finlay Currie ..... Mr. Patient
Anne Heywood ..... Glynis
Brian Rawlinson ..... Dylan Evans
Terence Longdon ..... Col. Sir Frederick Venner
Frederick Leister ..... Capt. Andrew Ogden
Derek Oldham ..... William
Jean Mercure ..... Chief of Police
Raymond Gérôme ..... Citizen-Director of the Revolution
Austin Trevor ..... M. Petitval
Jean Claudio ..... DeCastres, Philippe's Comrade in Paris

Synopsis:

What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the opulent British swashbuckler Dangerous Exile. Louis Jourdan stars as the Duc de Beauvais, who manages, at great personal sacrifice, to smuggle the son (Richard O'Sullivan) of King Louis XVI into England. The boy takes up residence in Wales, where he is protected by local lass Virginia Traill (Belinda Lee) and her wealthy Aunt Fell (Martita Hunt). When time comes for the boy to return to France, he refuses--but local newspaper editor Patient (Finlay Currie), a spy for the French revolutionaries, has other ideas. Keith Michell, future star of TV's Six Wives of Henry VIII, is well cast as a French Republican with whom the Duc de Beauvais must inevitably cross swords.

Dangerous Exile (1957) is an enjoyable example of the smoothly produced, shamelessly nostalgic fare that audiences enjoyed as historical drama in the romantic 1950s. Shot in high-resolution VistaVision and eye-pleasing Eastmancolor, it offers an array of stately rooms and atmospheric landscapes as the backdrop for what a reviewer called 'one of history's most beguiling legends,' the adventures of young Louis XVII, the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution, when terror at home drove him into exile abroad before he had reached his teens. The real Louis XVII died in a secret French prison at the tender age of ten, but the movie presents the wishful fantasy that many royalists clung to, giving him an extended life and a new set of friends who care very much about his welfare.

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 15 February, 2021.