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Wednesday, May 2, 2018

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     The Corsican Brothers
1941  NR  ADVENTURE  1h 41min
CAST— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carroll Naish, H. B. Warner, Henry Wilcoxon
MUSIC— Dimitri Tiomkin  DIRECTOR— Gregory Ratoff  BASED ON— The Corsican Brothers (Les Frères Corses) (story), by Alexandre Dumas

     Entertaining adventure yarn, told when heroes were dashing and villains were vile. The dashing heroes of this tale are twins; not just any twins, but joined at birth. After a hasty but miraculous surgical procedure the conjoined twins were separated. But good fortune was not on their side: their entire family was wiped out by a clan of feuding landowners led by the villainous Collona. The twins were believed to have been killed in the devastating raid on their ancestral home, but they were snuck out and raised separately for twenty years. After learning of their family’s fate they vow to wage full out war against Collona, never stopping until justice has been served. Exciting sword play, smoldering romance, and fine effects add oomph to an already enjoyable feature. Final note: Cheech and Chong made their own version of the tale in 1984. Just turn around and walk away from that one.
OUR RATING— ** ½
ORIGINAL— The Corsican Brothers (1898/1912/1915/1920)
REMADE AS— Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers (1984), The Corsican Brothers (1985)
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