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Famed Swedish director Victor Sjostrom was coaxed out of retirement to direct his final film, Under the Red Robe, a swashbuckling adventure that takes place in the France of Louis XIII. Conrad Veidt stars as Gil de Berault, quick with his sword yet set for execution. But right before his sentence is carried out, Cardinal Richelieu (Raymond Massey) offers a stay of execution if Gil will find and kill a duke suspected of leading the revolutionary antimonarchist Huguenots. Gil tracks the duke to a castle, sneaks into the guarded fortress, and ends up falling in love with the duke's sister, Lady Marguerite (Anabella). Gil now has to save the duke without bringing about his own execution. — Paul Brenner

Review: A French soldier of fortune is trapped into aiding Cardinal Richelieu in his persecution of the Huguenots and winds up falling in love with the sister of his intended victim. Good costume adventure-drama. Sjostrom's last film as a director.

The great Swedish director Victor Sjostrom (billed here as "Seastrom") came out of semiretirement and ventured to England to direct UNDER THE RED ROBE. Handsomely mounted, with a strong cast, the film is set in France during the reign of Louis XIII. Gil de Berault (Veidt), a notorious gambler and duelist, finds himself facing the gallows. At the last moment he is offered a reprieve by Cardinal Richelieu (Massey) on the condition that he seek out and kill a duke suspected of being the leader of the antimonarchist Huguenots. Veidt agrees and finds himself accompanied in the venture by Massey's trusted assassin (Brent), who is assigned to make sure that Veidt does his job. Veidt traces the rebel leader to a castle and infiltrates his stronghold, only to fall in love with his prey's beautiful sister (Annabella). Veidt captures the duke, but rather than kill him or bring him back to Massey for execution, he lets the rebel escape to England. When Veidt returns to Massey and the king (Gardner), Louis praises him for the clever way he removed the threat to the crown. Angered, but forced to concur, Massey also congratulates Veidt. His neck out of the noose, Veidt returns to Annabella to renew their romance. While certainly not among Sjostrom's masterworks, UNDER THE RED ROBE is a fine costume adventure. Massey attacks his menacing role with relish, while Veidt, who was a bit too old for his part, rises to the occasion and pulls off the action scenes as well as the romance. French actress Annabella, who was treated as a national treasure by her countrymen following her performances in Rene Clair's LE MILLION (1931) and JULY 14TH (1933), left France for England to make this picture and two others. She then went to Hollywood, where she failed to duplicate her European success. Sjostrom directed no more films himself, but concentrated on acting and appeared in several movies, most notably giving a superb performance in Ingmar Bergman's WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957).

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Under the Red Robe
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Director
Victor Sjöström

Intérpretes

Conrad Veidt ... Gil de Berault
Annabella ... Lady Marguerite of Fiox
Raymond Massey ... Cardinal Richelieu
Romney Brent ... Marius
Sophie Stewart ... Elise, Duchess of Fiox
Wyndham Goldie ... Edmond, Duke of Fiox
Lawrence Grant ... Father Joseph
Balliol Holloway ... Clon
Shale Gardner ... Louis
Frank Damer ... Pierre
James Regan ... Jean
Edie Martin ... Maria
Haddon Mason ... Count Rossignac
J. Fisher White ... Baron Breteuil
Graham Soutten ... Leval

Género: Aventuras, Histórico

País: Gran Bretaña

Idioma: Inglés

Sinopsis: Nueva adaptación de la novela de Stanley J. Weyman, centrada en las intrigas palaciegas basadas en hechos verídicos de la vida del siempre recurrente Cardenal Richelieu. Sin embargo, en otras versiones cinematográficas del cine mudo había variado su guión: de hecho, en la producida en 1915 Under the Red Robe, su argumento se centraba especialmente en las costumbres y maquinaciones de la corte; mientras que en la siguiente adaptación, Under the Red Robe dirigida en 1923 por Alan Crosland, cobraban mucha más presencia las escenas de acción.
En esta ocasión, Sjöström, en su última película como director, se acercó más a la versión de 1923 en un espectáculo aventurero que tiene como protagonista a Gil de Berault, un espadachín condenado a muerte que puede revocar su sentencia si cumple las órdenes de Richelieu: encontrar y matar a un Duque acusado de apoyar la revolución antimonárquica.

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