The read
Audiences rate it 46 points higher than critics do. Most of the 84 1970s history movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes27%
Audiences rate it 46 points higher than critics do.
234 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei BondarchukDirector
- H.A.L. CraigScreenplay
- Nino RotaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Rod SteigerNapoleon Bonaparte
- Christopher PlummerArthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
- Orson WellesLouis XVIII
- Jack HawkinsGeneral Sir Thomas Picton
- Virginia McKennaDuchess of Richmond
- Dan O'HerlihyMarshal Michel Ney
- Rupert DaviesGordon
- Philippe ForquetLa Bedoyere
- Gianni GarkoDrouot
- Ivo GarraniMarshal Soult
- Ian OgilvyDe Lancey
- Michael WildingColonel Sir William Ponsonby
