The rebel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The rebel |
| Original title | The Saracen Blade |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1954 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Castle |
| script |
DeVallon Scott , George Worthing Yates |
| production | Sam Katzman |
| music | Mischa Bakaleinikoff |
| camera | Henry Freulich |
| cut | Gene Havlick |
| occupation | |
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The outrage (alternative title: The Sword of the Saracen ; Original title: The Saracen Blade ) is an American adventure film by William Castle from 1954, which was based on a novel by Frank Yerby .
action
At the hour of birth of the future emperor Friedrich II. In medieval, central Italian Ancona , a son was born to the blacksmith Donati by his wife Maria, who is called Pietro. Then Mary gets through birth fever, to Donati sets off to fetch a healer, but he is captured by Count Alesandro Siniscola because he had refused to continue the count's vassal to be. Maria dies. Pietro's godfather Isaac then flees south with his newborn godson to the Saracen Sicily . Many years later, as a young man, Pietro heard of a revolt by Count Siniscola's serfs led by his father. Immediately he sets out to be at his side.
However, when he arrives at his father's, the doomed man sends him away because his son shouldn't die for a hopeless cause. Pietro later meets the Baron Rogliano, in whose service he enters and with whose daughter Jolanthe he begins a secret romance. When it emerges that Jolanthe is to be married to Enzio, the son of Count Siniscola, the two lovers want to flee to Venice , but they fail. Jolanthe is married to Enzio against her will. Pietro ends up in prison. In order to finally get rid of the annoying competitor, the prison guard is urged by Enzio to pretend Jolantha's next visit asleep so that she can steal the keys from him and help Pietro escape. On the following hunt, Pietro is supposed to be killed, but by chance he comes across Emperor Friedrich II , whom he is able to save from an attacking wild boar. With the monarch's favor thus gained, he succeeds in taking revenge on the Siniscolas by forcing Elaine von Siniscola, a cousin of the Siniscolas, to take him as husband.
Some time later the emperor embarks on a crusade against the Saracens. After the company's failure, Pietro is taken prisoner, where the slave girl Zenobia falls in love with him. She buys him free with her jewelry and, after being disfigured by her master Haroun, is allowed to travel to Italy with Pietro. There requires Graf Alesandro Siniscola, who actually was about to marry before Pietro his cousin Elaine, which is due until recently still missing church Ehedispens was not allowed 'to murder her husband of Elaine in order to consummate the marriage last. Elaine, however, rejects Alesandro because she is no longer averse to Pietro, whereupon Alesandro stabs her. As a result, Pietro, who has meanwhile been raised to baron, begins a war against the Siniscolas, at the end of which Enzio and Alesandro Siniscola are killed. As a punishment, the emperor deprives him of his nobility and property, but he wins back his love for Jolanthe.
First broadcast
The outrage opened in United States cinemas on June 6, 1954 . The film was released in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 11, 1955.
criticism
For the lexicon of international films , Der Reverberer was “history kitsch à la Hollywood” with “involuntary comedy”.
Web links
- The rebels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The outrage in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The rebel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 22, 2017 .