Cardinal Richelieu (film)
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Directed by | Rowland V. Lee |
Written by | Cameron Rogers |
Based on | Richelieu 1839 play by Edward Bulwer Lytton |
Produced by | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Starring | George Arliss Maureen O'Sullivan Edward Arnold |
Cinematography | J. Peverell Marley |
Edited by | Sherman Todd |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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. 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
Categories:
- 1935 films
- English-language films
- 1930s historical drama films
- American films
- American historical drama films
- Films based on works by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Films set in the 1620s
- Films set in the 1630s
- Films set in France
- Films set in Paris
- 1930s English-language films
- Biographical films about politicians
- Films directed by Rowland V. Lee
- Films produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
- Films scored by Alfred Newman
- Twentieth Century Pictures films
- American black-and-white films
- United Artists films
- Cultural depictions of Cardinal Richelieu
- Cultural depictions of Louis XIII
- Cultural depictions of Marie de' Medici
- Cultural depictions of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- 1935 drama films
- Historical film stubs