Blood on His Sword (1961)
Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
Director: André Hunebelle
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Jean Marais as Robert de Neuville |
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Rosanna Schiaffino as Jeanne de Beauvais |
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Roger Hanin as Charles le Téméraire |
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Jean-Louis Barrault as Louis XI |
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Guy Delorme as De Sénac |
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Annie Anderson as Catherine du Tillais |
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Raphaël Albert-Lambert as Le favori de Charles |
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Raoul Billerey as Jérôme |
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Jean Lanier as Un évêque |
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Georges Lycan as Sire de Gavray |
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Bernard Musson as Un évêque |
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Pierre Palfray as Mathieu |
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Jacques Seiler as L'héraut |
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Roger Van Mullem as |
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Laurence Lignières as La chambrière de Bourgogne |
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Jean Blancheur as |
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Paul Bonifas as Le chirurgien / Doctor of Louis XI |
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Charles Bouillaud as Olivier Le Daim |
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François Charet as L'écuyer de Robert |
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Alberto Herrero Tirado as |
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Benoîte Labb as Une paysanne |
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Pierre Moncorbier as Maître Ghislain |
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René Roussel as |
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Richard Saint-Bris as |
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Louis Arbessier as Comte Hesselin |
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Jean Marchat as L'évêque |
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Jacques Balutin as Un spadassin (uncredited) |
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Raymond Bernard as (uncredited) |
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Claude Carliez as Un soldat (uncredited) |
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Yvan Chiffre as Un baladin (uncredited) |
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Robert Dalban as Le faux courrier de Liège (uncredited) |
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Franck Estange as Un villageois (uncredited) |
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Henri Guégan as Un baladin (uncredited) |
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Rico López as Un baladin (uncredited) |
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Hubert Noël as Récitant / Narrator (uncredited) |
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Paul Préboist as Un baladin (uncredited) |
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Jean-Michel Rouzière as Un soldat (uncredited) |
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Antoine Baud as Un baladin / Un soldat bourguignon (uncredited) |
| Writing | Henry Dupuy-Mazuel | Writer |
| Directing | André Hunebelle | Director |
| Sound | Jean Marion | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | André Hunebelle | Writer |
| Writing | Jean Halain | Writer |
| Writing | Pierre Foucaud | Writer |
| Camera | Marcel Grignon | Director of Photography |
