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  • The Beloved Rogue

  • (Widescreen, Silent Movie)
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Rated: NR
  • Release Date: 17/12/2024
The Beloved Rogue

The Beloved Rogue

(Widescreen, Silent Movie)
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Rated: NR
  • Release Date: 17/12/2024
  • Blu-ray 
    Price: USD $23.83

    Product Notes

    John Barrymore sought to out-swashbuckle Douglas Fairbanks in his breathless depiction of France's rapscallion poet, thief, and vagabond: Francois Villon (1431-1463). He bounds over the snowy rooftops of Paris, scales a castle tower, and is hurled skyward by the royal catapult but this is no mere stunt picture. Barrymore wields a simmering sexuality that endows the film with an element of eroticism that perfectly suits Villon, who loved, France earnestly, Frenchwomen excessively, French wine exclusively. A lavish spectacle boasting the set designs of William Cameron Menzies (The Thief of Bagdad), The Beloved Rogue is Hollywood myth-making at it's most ambitious and entertaining. Following a series of star-making performances in Germany, Conrad Veidt (The Hands of Orlac) made his American film debut as the sinister King Louis XI.