35mm

The Flame and the Arrow

Jacques Tourneur
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Jacques Tourneur, Fearmaker

December 14, 2018 - January 3, 2019

Burt Lancaster’s megawatt grin and acrobatic athleticism light up this grandly entertaining swashbuckler, composed by Tourneur in exquisite Technicolor chiaroscuro.

DIRECTOR
Jacques Tourneur
YEAR
1950
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
88 minutes
FORMAT
35mm

Burt Lancaster’s megawatt grin and acrobatic athleticism light up this grandly entertaining swashbuckler. He tumbles, vaults, and swings his way through the role of a Robin Hood-esque rogue who executes dazzling feats of derring-do as he and his rough-and-ready band of mountain men launch a rebellion against the occupying German gentry in 12th-century Italy. The filmmaker’s powers as an aesthetician are on full display in the exquisite Technicolor compositions, including one particularly striking moment of Tourneurian shadow play: a climactic duel in the dark wrought in finely shaded chiaroscuro.

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