That's the third time I watch it. I have it in a widescreen edition, taped off from french TV in the early nineties. Universal stuff, in the early days of Tony Curtis' career. I will put it on the same scale as BLACK SHIELD OF FALSWORTH or PRINCE WHO WAS A THIEF. Entertaining movie but not for the history buffs; real, actual history events specialists, I mean. I am not a historian myself, but this kind of movie is always filled up with anachronisms.
And the most laughable is at the beginning of this picture, when a man on a carriage crosses a forest, in the 1803 France, and when we can hear monkeys squeals in the trees. IN 1803 France !!!, as if we were in the Africa !!! As if we were in a Tarzan adventure.
As far as I know, Bruce Humberstone - the director - has never made any more movie for Universal Pictures. But perhaps I am wrong. He was rather a Twentieth Century Fox "yes man". And he made especially comedies and Charlie Chan adventures, except FURY AT FURNACE CREEK, TEN WANTED MEN - westerns - and the famous I WAKE UP SCREAMING, a great film noir, starring Betty Grable, Victore Mature and Laird Cregar.
And the most laughable is at the beginning of this picture, when a man on a carriage crosses a forest, in the 1803 France, and when we can hear monkeys squeals in the trees. IN 1803 France !!!, as if we were in the Africa !!! As if we were in a Tarzan adventure.
As far as I know, Bruce Humberstone - the director - has never made any more movie for Universal Pictures. But perhaps I am wrong. He was rather a Twentieth Century Fox "yes man". And he made especially comedies and Charlie Chan adventures, except FURY AT FURNACE CREEK, TEN WANTED MEN - westerns - and the famous I WAKE UP SCREAMING, a great film noir, starring Betty Grable, Victore Mature and Laird Cregar.