Scaramouche (1952 film)

Scaramouche is a 1952 MetroGoldwynMayer Technicolor romantic adventure film based on the 1921 novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini as well as the 1923 film version starring Ramn Novarro.

In France just prior to the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette Nina Foch asks her cousin Noel, the Marquis de Maynes Mel Ferrer, to uncover the identity of Marcus Brutus, a dangerous pamphleteer rousing hatred of the aristocracy.Meanwhile, Andr Moreau Stewart Granger, a noblemans bastard, kidnaps his beloved Lenore Eleanor Parker to keep her from marrying another man. Afterwards, Moreau learns that his father is the Count de Gavrillac. While traveling to meet his parent, Moreau runs into Aline de Gavrillac Janet Leigh, the Queens ward, when her carriage breaks down the road. They are strongly attracted to each other, but Moreaus ardor suddenly cools when he learns that she is his halfsister. He hides that information from her. ........

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