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Cardinal Richelieu
Should CLERGYMEN Actively Participate in POLITICS?
The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.
- Original title
- Cardinal Richelieu
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jun 19, 2022 · via TMDB
George Arliss is the eponymous red clergyman attempting to control 17th Century France. He is the first minister of the ineffectual Louis XIII and as such, is the object of pretty universal loathing from serfs and nobles alike. He is also, however, remarkably astute and thick-skinned, and will manoeuvre and scheme to advance the cause and safety of his nation. Sadly, though - even with all that to work with, neither director Rowland V. Lee, nor Arliss himself really deliver anything particularly exciting or intriguing. The plotting and counter-plotting is all just a bit shallow, the wordy dialogue neuters the characters quite effectively and the pace of the whole thing lurches rather than flows. It has grand set staging, but that seems to suggest it might make for a better play than a movie and although there are plenty of familiar faces propping him up - Cesar Romero, Edward Arnold and quite a jolly contribution from Maureen O'Sullivan, on the whole I was disappointed by this rather dry, procedural drama.
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George Arliss
Cardinal Richelieu
Edward Arnold
Louis XIII
Maureen O'Sullivan
Lenore
Cesar Romero
Andre de Pons
Violet Kemble Cooper
Queen Marie
Katharine Alexander
Queen Anne
Halliwell Hobbes
Father Joseph
Francis Lister
Gaston
Lumsden Hare
Gustavus Adolphus - King of Sweden
Murray Kinnell
Duke of Lorraine
Herbert Bunston
Duke of Normandy
Boyd Irwin
Austrian Prime Minister
Leonard Mudie
Olivares
David Clyde
Inn-Keeper
Reginald Sheffield
Richelieu's Outrider
Eddie Dunn
Tradesman
William Worthington
King's Chamberlain
Pat Somerset
King's Captain of Guards
Gilbert Emery
Noble
Holmes Herbert
Noble
Lionel Belmore
Agitator
John Carradine
Agitator
Tom Ricketts
Agitator
Arthur Treacher
Agitator
Reginald Barlow
Agitator
Jack Harvey
Brugnon
Jack Rutherford
Outrider
Rowland V. Lee
Director
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
W.P. Lipscomb
Dialogue
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Theatre Play
Nunnally Johnson
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