The Scarlet Blade
The Scarlet Blade | |
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Directed by | John Gilling |
Written by | John Gilling |
Produced by | Anthony Nelson Keys |
Starring | Jack Hedley Lionel Jeffries Oliver Reed June Thorburn |
Cinematography | Jack Asher |
Edited by | John Dunsford |
Music by | Gary Hughes |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner-Pathé (UK) |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Scarlet Blade (released in the United States as The Crimson Blade) is a 1963 British adventure film directed by John Gilling for Hammer Film Productions.
It is a period drama set during the English Civil War and stars Oliver Reed and Lionel Jeffries.
Plot summary
When King Charles I is captured by Roundhead forces led by the tyrant Colonel Judd and his right-hand man Captain Sylvester, it is up to a band of locals loyal to the King to try and rescue him. They are helped by Judd's daughter Claire who secretly helps them in defiance of her father...
Main cast
- Lionel Jeffries as Colonel Judd
- Oliver Reed as Captain Tom Sylvester
- Jack Hedley as Edward Beverley, The Scarlet Blade
- June Thorburn as Claire Judd
- Michael Ripper as Pablo
- Harold Goldblatt as Jacob
- Duncan Lamont as Major Bell
- Clifford Elkin as Philip Beverley
- Suzan Farmer as Constance Beverley
- John Harvey as Sergeant Grey
- Charles Houston as Drury