Louis XI of France drafts Paris's popular "king" of criminals as Provost Marshal in his fight against usurper Charles of Burgundy and the traitorous nobles who rally around him.
Score
Rudolf Friml's operetta adapted with 1950s Broadway bombast.
Costume
Extravagant medieval fantasy robes that would make Liberace jealous.
Acting
Rita Moreno steals every scene as the scorned tavern girl Huguette.
Director
Michael Curtiz
Kathryn Grayson
Catherine de Vaucelles
Rita Moreno
Huguette
Cedric Hardwicke
Tristan
Walter Hampden
King Louis XI
Leslie Nielsen
Thibault d'Aussigny
William Prince
Rene de Montigny
Jack Lord
Ferrebouc
Gavin Gordon
Majordomo
Ralph Clanton
Duke of Anjou
Clancy Cooper
Gaoler
Phyllis Newman
Lulu
Jeanette Miller
Lady in Waiting
Larry Pennell
Soldier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Michael Curtiz's final film—yes, the Casablanca director ended his career with a swashbuckling musical about a poet-thief.
Oreste Kirkop, the Maltese tenor playing Villon, never made another film—becoming perhaps cinema's most beautiful one-hit wonder.
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