The Secret of St. Ives (1949)

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Release Date: 1949

Duration: 75min

Category: Escape Film, Adventure

Cast: Henry Daniell, Phil Rosen, Richard Ney, Aubrey Mather, Maurice Marsac, John Dehner, Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Vanessa Brown, Billy Bevan, Edgar Barrier, Rudolph C. Flothow, Douglas Walton, Harry Cording, Jean del Val, Henry Freulich, Luis Van Rooten

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Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret of St. Ives, Ney plays Anatole de Keroual, the unofficial head of a group of French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars.... more

Long before he became a highly respected Wall Street financial adviser, Richard Ney was a minor-league film star. In Secret of St. Ives, Ney plays Anatole de Keroual, the unofficial head of a group of French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars. Organizing an escape from his British captors, Anatole leads his fellow prisoners to Scotland, thence to London. Doggedly pursued by nasty British major Chevenish (Henry Daniell), Anatole is recaptured and sentenced to hang. How he wriggles out of this dilemma is the dramatic thrust of the film's last reel. Vanessa Brown co-stars as Floria, Anatole's British sweetheart. The Secret of St. Ives was adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less