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A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 100%. Critics rate it 32 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 143 1950s adventure movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 32 points higher than audiences do.
89 audience votes
Key crew
- Max SteinerOriginal Music Composer
- Waldo SaltWriter
- Jacques TourneurDirector
Cast
- Burt LancasterDardo Bartoli
- Virginia MayoAnne de Hesse
- Robert DouglasMarchese Alessandro de Granazia
- Aline MacMahonNonna Bartoli
- Frank AllenbyCount 'The Hawk' Ulrich
- Nick CravatPiccolo
- Lynn BaggettFrancesca
- Gordon GebertRudi Bartoli, Dardo's Son
- Norman LloydApollo, the Troubador
- Victor KilianApothecary Mazzoni
- Francis PierlotPapa Pietro
- Robin HughesSkinner
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Themes
rescuerebelniecebattle12th centurylombardy