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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Justin Huntly McCarthy (play)
Preston Sturges (writer)
Release Date:
11 November 1938 (USA) more
Tagline:
His Love-Making was as Dangerous as His Sword-Play
Plot:
Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars. more
User Comments:
What Golden Age Hollywood Did Best more (10 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ronald Colman | ... | François Villon |
 | Basil Rathbone | ... | King Louis XI |
| Frances Dee | ... | Katherine de Vaucelles |
| Ellen Drew | ... | Huguette |
| C.V. France | ... | Father Villon |
 | Henry Wilcoxon | ... | Captain of the Watch |
| Heather Thatcher | ... | The Queen |
| Stanley Ridges | ... | Rene de Montigny |
| Bruce Lester | ... | Noel de Jolys |
| Alma Lloyd | ... | Colette |
| Walter Kingsford | ... | Tristan l'Hermite |
| Sidney Toler | ... | Robin Turgis |
| Colin Tapley | ... | Jehan Le Loup |
| Ralph Forbes | ... | Oliver le Dain |
| John Miljan | ... | Thibaut d'Aussigny |
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Runtime:
101 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #4432)
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William Farnum, who plays Gen. Barbezier, starred as Villon in the first film version of If I Were King (1920) in 1920. more
Quotes:
Colette:
Epitaph? What's that?
François Villon:
Oh, usually something good about somebody bad... after they're dead.
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Referenced in So You Want to Be an Actor (1949) more
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Ronald Colman and Basil Rathbone, two wonderful actors having the time of their careers playing wittily written opposites who are also spiritual soulmates -- Francois Villon, the poetic rebel, born into poverty with a noble soul, and Louis XI, King of France, born into privilege but with a rebel's iconoclasm. Add a witty script by that poetic comedic rebel Preston Sturges, who hits all the crowd-pleasing buttons without condescension and no-nonsense direction by Frank Lloyd, and you have a top Hollywood product -- a crowd pleaser with intelligence.
Rathbone is a particular delight. Pre-Holmes, he revels in playing an unprepossessing cynic to whom everyone must bow because he happens to be the king. Colman is doing what he does best, playing an intelligent, superior man, without losing the common touch. A delight all the way around.