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The Black Arrow (film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Black Arrow' is a 1948 American adventure film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Louis Hayward and Janet Blair.[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/68840/The-Black-Arrow/ 'The Black Arrow'] at Turner Classic Movies It is an adaptation of the 1888 novel of the same title by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Premise
A knight returns home after the War of the Roses (14551487) and discovers that his evil uncle has murdered his father.
Cast
Production
In 1947 Edward Small signed a contract with Columbia to make two films, 'The Black Arrow' and 'D'Artagnan, the Kingmaker', an adaptation of one of the sequels to 'The Three Musketeers'. Only the former was made but Small made a number of other swashbucklers for Columbia.
Filming started 6 June 1947.
The film uses leftover sets from 'The Swordsman' (1948) and costumes and cast from 'The Bandit of Sherwood Forest' (1946).Jeffrey Richards, 'Swordsmen of the Screen', p 104-105
Reception
Reviews were positive.
See also
* 'Black Arrow' (1985)
References
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