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Dangerous Exile (Original title)
Date: 13 January 1958 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst

Synopsis: Cloak and dagger melodrama set during the French Revolution. An American girl helps a Royalist rescue the boy King of France from the Revolutionaries.

Genres:
Period drama, Melodrama

Subjects:
18th century, Doubles, French Revolution (1789-1799)
Releases
Date: November 1957Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 91 mins Length: 8240 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Rank Film Distributors

Credits (37)
©: The Rank Organisation Film Productions Limited, Presents: The Rank Organisation, Released by: J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors Ltd., Executive Producer: Earl St. John, Produced by: George H. Brown, Production Manager: Jack Swinburne, Production Controller for Pinewood Studios: Arthur Alcott, 2nd Unit Director: Peter Bezencenet, Assistant Director: George Pollock, Continuity: Beryl Booth, Continuity: Beryl Booth, Screenplay by: Robin Estridge, With additional dialogue by: Patrick Kirwan, From the novel 'A King Reluctant' by: Vaughan Wilkins, Director of Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth, Camera Operator: David Harcourt, Clapper: Mike Fox, Special Portraits: Cornel Lucas, Editor: Peter Bezencenet, Production Designer: Ferdinand Bellan, Art Director: Jack Maxsted, Set Decorator: Arthur Taksen, Costumes Designed by: Eleanor Abbey, Make-up: George Blackler, Hairdressing: Iris Tilley, Wigs by: Florrie Hyde, Eastman Color processed by: The Rank Laboratories (Denham) Ltd, Music Composed by: Georges Auric, [Music] Played by: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by: Muir Mathieson, Sound Recordist: Sydney Wiles, Sound Recordist: Gordon K. McCallum, Sound Editor: Arthur Cox, Sound System: Westrex Recording System, Historical Adviser: Vyvyan Holland, Made at: Pinewood Studios
Cast (25)
Louis Jourdan (Duc de Beauvais), Belinda Lee (Virginia Traill), Keith Michell (Colonel St. Gerard), Richard O'Sullivan (Louis XVII), Martita Hunt (Aunt Fell), Finlay Currie (Mr Patient), Anne Heywood (Glynis), Jean Mercure (Chief of Police), Raymond Gérôme (the director), Jean Claudio (De Castres), Terence Longdon (Sir Frederick Venner), Brian Rawlinson (Dylan Evans), Frederick Leister (Captain Ogden), Laurence Payne (Lautrec), Derek Oldham, Austin Trevor (Petival), Jacques Brunius (De Chassagne), John Dearth (Simon), Lisa Lee (Simon's Wife), André Mikhelson (Dr. Perrott), Paul Cole, Margaret Sawyer (French child), Anthony Sadler, Steve Graham, Sharon Sharpe