Blood on His Sword
ADVENTURE in the French Court of Burgundy
100 mins
Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
Raphaël Albert-Lambert
Le favori de Charles
Pierre Palfray
Mathieu
Laurence Lignières
La chambrière de Bourgogne
François Charet
L'écuyer de Robert
Benoîte Labb
Une paysanne
Franck Estange
Un villageois (uncredited)
Jean-Michel Rouzière
Un soldat (uncredited)
Henry Dupuy-Mazuel
Writer
Jean Marion
Original Music Composer
Pierre Foucaud
Writer
Marcel Grignon
Director of Photography