Directed by Harold Young
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Leslie Howard is the English gentlemen who dons a variety of disguises to rescue French aristocracy doomed for the guillotine. The lovely Merle Oberon is his wife, who does not know about his secret identity but suspects something is wrong in their marriage. The movie starts off well with an atmospheric recreation of French executions. However, there is a long, long middle that takes place in England at a ball that brings the movie to a crawl and induces sleep in the viewer. The action picks up again towards the end in France, if you can make it that far.
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