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'Adventures of Casanova' is a 1948 American-Mexican historical adventure film directed by Roberto Gavaldn and starring Arturo de Crdova Lucille Bremer and Turhan Bey. It portrays a fictional version of the story of Casanova, and was intended to capitalize on the success of the Errol Flynn film 'The Adventures of Don Juan' which was released the same year after a long production process.Richards p.121 It is set in Sicily in the 1790s, with Casanova as a freedom fighter battling against the King's local governor Count de Brissac, who unknown to the monarch, is acting as a tyrant.

The film's sets were designed by the art directors Jorge Fernandez and Alfred Ybarra

Cast



* Arturo de Crdova as Casanova

* Lucille Bremer as Lady Bianca

* Turhan Bey as Lorenzo

* John Sutton as Count de Brissac

* George Tobias as Jacopo

* Noreen Nash as Zanetta

* Lloyd Corrigan as D'Albernasi

* Fritz Leiber (Sr.) as D'Anneci

* Nestor Paiva as Prefecture police

* Jorge Trevino as Angelino

* Clifford Carr as Salvatore

* Jacqueline Dalya as Lady Adria

* Miroslava as Cassandra's sister

* Rafael Alcayde as Cassandra's brother-in-law

* Jacqueline Evans as Cassandra

* Leonor Gmez as Woman in crowd

* Chel Lpez as Jailer

* Rita Macedo as Bruntilla, maid

* Charles Rooner as Palace guard

* Fanny Schiller as Woman who complains in crowd

* Fernando Wagner as Assassinated commander

References



Bibliography



* Richards, Jeffrey. 'Swordsmen of the Screen: From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York'. Routledge, 2014.


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