The Exile (1947 film)
The Exile 1947 is a film directed by Max Ophls, and produced, written by, and starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. Rita Corday billed as Paule Croset played the romantic interest. According to Robert Osborne, the primary host of Turner Classic Movies, Mara Montez had a stipulation in her contract that she had to have top billing in any film in which she appeared, so her name comes first in the opening credits, despite her secondary role. The movie is based on the novel His Majesty, the King A Romantic Love Chase of the Seventeenth Century by Cosmo Hamilton.
When unrest in England presents both opportunity and danger, Charless chief advisor, Sir Edward Hyde Nigel Bruce, recommends he hide somewhere, neither too close for Roundhead assassins to find him, nor too far for news to reach him of further developments. Charles, without revealing his royal identity, persuades Katie to take him on as a farm hand. The two soon fall in love.During his stay, Charles encounters an actor named Dick Pinner Robert Coote who is posing as him the imposter stays at Katies inn. Shortly afterward, there arrives another guest, Countess Anbella de Courteuil Mara Montez, an old lover of Charless and an emissary from King Louis of France. She presents Charles with a gift from Louis, a music box. Knowing that Katie owes 3000 guilders to her cousin, Jan Otto Waldis, Charles has the music box sold and pays off the debt without her knowledge. Katie becomes jealous of Anbella and dismisses Charles. However, when she learns of his generosity from a gracious, departing Anbella, she takes him back. ........
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