Saturday 25 November 2017

By the numbers

The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)

Directed by Rudolph Mate this film based on the novel “Men of Iron” stars Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh and Barbara Rush. A young man and his sister discover they are not peasants and sent to live with a lord against the back drop of a conspiracy against Henry IV of England.

This is a pretty simple swashbuckler film that is high predictable and contains a lot of genre cliches. It seems the plot strays a fair amount from it's source material but neither version is a great work of entertainment. The film is fairly entertaining but the film is paper thin when it comes to depth and unremarkable in execution.


2/5

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