Cardinal Richelieu (film)

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Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed byRowland V. Lee
Written byCameron Rogers
Based onRichelieu
1839 play
by Edward Bulwer Lytton
Produced byDarryl F. Zanuck
StarringGeorge Arliss
Maureen O'Sullivan
Edward Arnold
CinematographyJ. Peverell Marley
Edited bySherman Todd
Music byAlfred Newman
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • April 28, 1935 (1935-04-28)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Cardinal Richelieu is a 1935 American historical film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring George Arliss, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold and Cesar Romero.[1] It was based on the 1839 play Richelieu by Edward Bulwer-Lytton depicting the life of the great seventeenth century French statesman Cardinal Richelieu and his dealings with Louis XIII.

Cast[]

  • George Arliss as Cardinal Richelieu
  • Maureen O'Sullivan as Lenore
  • Edward Arnold as Louis XIII
  • Cesar Romero as Andre de Pons
  • Douglass Dumbrille as Baradas
  • Francis Lister as Gaston
  • Halliwell Hobbes as Father Joseph
  • Violet Kemble Cooper as Queen Marie
  • Katharine Alexander as Anne of Austria
  • Lumsden Hare as Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
  • Russell Hicks as Le Moyne
  • Murray Kinnell as Duke of Lorraine
  • Herbert Bunston as Duke of Normandy
  • Guy Bellis as Duke of Buckingham
  • Boyd Irwin as Austrian Prime Minister
  • Leonard Mudie as Olivares
  • Reginald Sheffield as Richelieu's Outrider
  • William Worthington as King's Chamberlain
  • Gilbert Emery as Noble
  • John Carradine as Agitator

References[]

  1. ^ "Cardinal Richelieu (1935)". Archived from the original on 2009-01-18.

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