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The Beloved Rogue

192798 minUnited States
AdventureBiography

Synopsis

Poet François Villon mocks the powerful and is banished from Paris after confronting the Duke of Burgundy. His attempts to help the poor draw him back into royal politics. The king's plans for his ward's marriage place romance inside the struggle over Burgundy's influence.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
98:06
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Alan Crosland / United Artists · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsAlan Crosland

Inspirations

John Barrymore plays a freely romanticized version of the medieval poet, opposite Conrad Veidt's Louis XI. The film uses Villon's historical identity as a starting point for swashbuckling fantasy.

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