DramaWestern

Duel on the Mississippi

- The Roaring Story of the Notorious Lili Scarlet -- Gambling Queen of the Mississippi!

In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet (Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin) will do anything to get it. After robbing Jules Tulane’s (John Dehner, The Boys from Brazil) estate of his crop, Scarlet takes over Tulane’s land debt and forces him to pay or go to prison. In exchange for postponing his debt, Scarlet allows Tulane’s son, André (Lex Barker, Robin Hood and the Pirates), to work as her servant. When André and Scarlet fall in love, it leads to jealous rage from Scarlet’s former paramour, expert swordsman Hugo (Warren Stevens, Forbidden Planet) — and when Hugo looks to raid the Tulane estate again, it is up to André and Scarlet to take him down and save the estate.

Release Date : 1955-09-16

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Columbia PicturesClover Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Andre Tulane

Original Name : Lex Barker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lili Scarlet

Original Name : Patricia Medina

Gender : Female

Character Name : Hugo Marat

Original Name : Warren Stevens

Gender : Male

Character Name : René LaFarge

Original Name : Craig Stevens

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jules Tulane

Original Name : John Dehner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Celeste Tulane

Original Name : Celia Lovsky

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jacques Scarlet

Original Name : Ian Keith

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anton

Original Name : Chris Alcaide

Gender : Male

Character Name : Georges Gabriel

Original Name : Louis Merrill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sheriff

Original Name : Mel Welles

Gender : Male

Character Name : Louie

Original Name : John Mansfield

Gender : Male

Character Name : Magistrate (uncredited)

Original Name : Morris Ankrum

Gender : Male

Character Name : Planter (uncredited)

Original Name : Victor Adamson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gaspard (uncredited)

Original Name : Baynes Barron

Gender : Male

Character Name : Riverboat Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Bill Coontz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Delta Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Tornek

Gender : Male

Character Name : Delta Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Al Haskell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Delta Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Herman Hack

Gender : Male

Character Name : Delta Man (uncredited)

Original Name : Art Felix

Gender : Male

Character Name : Riverboat Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Sol Murgi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Riverboat Patron (uncredited)

Original Name : Suzanne Ridgway

Gender : Female

Character Name : Merchant (uncredited)

Original Name : Carl Sklover

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-11-14

It's Louisiana at the start of the 19th century and sugar is becoming an hugely valuable commodity. The traditional (largely French) plantation owners are trying to capitalise on this crop but so are the inventive pirates who wait til it's all harvested and bagged up, then they pinch it! The leader of these ruthless thieves is "Lili" (Patricia Medina) who, along with her dad "Jacques" (Ian Keith) and sidekick "Hugo" (Warren Stevens) has set her sights on the "Tulane" family. She owns the debt on their land and is determined to force them into ruin. Luckily, that family has an hunky son in "André" (Lex Barker) to whom she takes a shine. She agrees to swap the debt for his indentured servitude and so our adventure of crosses and double crosses begins in earnest. OK, so Barker is easy on the eye but not much of an actor and Medina spends much of the time here wishing she was Maureen O'Hara, but it's got a solid story of greed and revenge before the fairly obvious denouement delivers predictably. It's fairly swiftly paced, there's plenty of action - how often do you see a duel with machetes - and I actually quite enjoyed the hamminess of it all.