La tulipe noire (1964)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Christian-Jaque

Writers:

Alexandre Dumas père (novel) and
Marcello Ciorciolini (additional story) ...

Release Date:

28 February 1964 (France)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy

Plot:

In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named "Black Tulip" held the surroundings of village Roussillon in fear...

Plot Keywords:

Bandit | Revolution | Black Tulip | Jewelry | Idealist

Cast

Alain Delon	...	Julien de Saint Preux / Guillaume de Saint Preux
Virna Lisi	...	Caroline 'Caro' Plantin
Adolfo Marsillach	...	Baron La Mouche
Dawn Addams	...	La marquise Catherine de Vigogne
Akim Tamiroff	...	Marquis de Vigogne
Laura Valenzuela	...	Lisette
George Rigaud	...	Intendant General / Chief of Police
Francis Blanche	...	Plantin
José Jaspe
Perla Cristal
José Luis Pellicena
Enrique Ávila
Álvaro de Luna
Robert Manuel	...	Prince Alexandre de Grasillach de Morvan Lobo
Yvan Chiffre		(as Ivan Chiffre)

Also Known As:

El tulipán negro (Spain)
Il tulipano nero (Italy)
The Black Tulip (UK)

Runtime:

115 min | Hungary:110 min | Spain:100 min | Argentina:113 min

Country:

France | Italy | Spain

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/12 | Finland:K-8 | Norway:A | Spain:T

Filming Locations:

Cáceres, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain

Company:

Flora Film

Trivia:

The film bears no resemblance whatsoever with the novel by Dumas entitled "La tulipe noire".

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Zorro (1975/I)

Soggy and uninspired mess

It is always a tad unfair to judge movies in a dubbed version especially ,as is the case here,when the dubbing is perfunctory and careless.Actors voices are among the key elements of their personality and replacing them with an anonymous voiceover artist is tantamount to a form of castration.,not to mention the loss of credibility arising from poor lip synchronization.

The movie needs all the help it can get anyway being a pretty feeble affair.The Black Tulip is a Zorro like figure,with a penchant for black garb and mask who sides with the peasantry in the French Revolution by holding up aristocrats and disbursing the proceeds to the downtrodden-a reverse Scarlet Pimpernel,whose sentiments,rightly ,were pro establishment.When scarred on his face by the Police Lieutenant General he substitutes his identical twin,an idealist,who takes to the role with some relish

Cue romantic entanglements,some woeful sword fights and a plethora of bad dubbing until we get to the finale where heroism and self sacrifice rule the day Delon is dull and lacks the balletic grace that marks out the best screen swordsmen

Minor in every way