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AdventureRomance

The Lady and the Bandit

- Ride the Highways in Adventure's Heyday!

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

Release Date : 1951-08-13

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Columbia Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Louis Hayward

Character Name : Dick Turpin

Original Name : Louis Hayward

Gender : Male

Patricia Medina

Character Name : Joyce Greene

Original Name : Patricia Medina

Gender : Female

Suzanne Dalbert

Character Name : Cecile

Original Name : Suzanne Dalbert

Gender : Female

Tom Tully

Character Name : Tom King

Original Name : Tom Tully

Gender : Male

John Williams

Character Name : Archbald Puffin

Original Name : John Williams

Gender : Male

Malú Gatica

Character Name : Baroness Margaret

Original Name : Malú Gatica

Gender : Female

Alan Mowbray

Character Name : Lord Charles Willoughby

Original Name : Alan Mowbray

Gender : Male

Lumsden Hare

Character Name : Sir Robert Walpole

Original Name : Lumsden Hare

Gender : Male

Barbara Brown

Character Name : Lady Greene

Original Name : Barbara Brown

Gender : Female

George Baxter

Character Name : David Garrick

Original Name : George Baxter

Gender : Male

Ivan Triesault

Character Name : King George

Original Name : Ivan Triesault

Gender : Male

Norman Leavitt

Character Name : Hedger

Original Name : Norman Leavitt

Gender : Male

Stapleton Kent

Character Name : John Ratchett

Original Name : Stapleton Kent

Gender : Male

Frank Reicher

Character Name : Count Eckhardt

Original Name : Frank Reicher

Gender : Male

Malcolm Keen

Character Name : Sir Thomas de Veil

Original Name : Malcolm Keen

Gender : Male

Sheldon Jett

Character Name : Ramsey Jostin

Original Name : Sheldon Jett

Gender : Male

Jimmy Aubrey

Character Name : First Drunk on Steps

Original Name : Jimmy Aubrey

Gender : Male

Alex Boles

Character Name : Coachman

Original Name : Alex Boles

Gender : Male

Barry Brooks

Character Name : King's Coachman

Original Name : Barry Brooks

Gender : Male

Leonard Carey

Character Name : Jailer

Original Name : Leonard Carey

Gender : Male

Gene Collins

Character Name : Young Man

Original Name : Gene Collins

Gender : Male

Leslie Denison

Character Name : Constable

Original Name : Leslie Denison

Gender : Male

David Dunbar

Character Name : Coachman

Original Name : David Dunbar

Gender : Male

James Fairfax

Character Name : Second Drunk on Steps

Original Name : James Fairfax

Gender : Male

Al Ferguson

Character Name : Captain

Original Name : Al Ferguson

Gender : Male

Frank Hagney

Character Name : Turpin's Hangman

Original Name : Frank Hagney

Gender : Male

Charles Heard

Character Name : Captain

Original Name : Charles Heard

Gender : Male

Tiny Jones

Character Name : Small Woman

Original Name : Tiny Jones

Gender : Female

Guy Kingsford

Character Name : Captain

Original Name : Guy Kingsford

Gender : Male

Arthur Loeb

Character Name : Utility Man

Original Name : Arthur Loeb

Gender : Male

Jock Mahoney

Character Name : Tavern Troublemaker

Original Name : Jock Mahoney

Gender : Male

Hank Mann

Character Name : Man Outside Newgate Prison

Original Name : Hank Mann

Gender : Male

Lester Matthews

Character Name : Ridgely, Joyce's Interrogator

Original Name : Lester Matthews

Gender : Male

J.P. McGowan

Character Name : Old Man

Original Name : J.P. McGowan

Gender : Male

Tudor Owen

Character Name : Mason

Original Name : Tudor Owen

Gender : Male

John Sheehan

Character Name : Huggens

Original Name : John Sheehan

Gender : Male

Gerald Oliver Smith

Character Name : Burfrey

Original Name : Gerald Oliver Smith

Gender : Male

Brick Sullivan

Character Name : Pub Customer

Original Name : Brick Sullivan

Gender : Male

Harry Tenbrook

Character Name : Pub Customer

Original Name : Harry Tenbrook

Gender : Male

Ben Welden

Character Name : Barkeep in Pub

Original Name : Ben Welden

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-09-01

Dick Turpin's is one of those legends that should have fitted nicely with Louis Hayward's style of swashbuckling heroics. Plenty of opportunity to rob the wealthy that travel the as yet un-policed roads of 1730s England. Sadly, though, Ralph Murphy chooses to focus more on the romantic elements of his roguish subject and we are left with a rather slow moving melodrama. After one of his hold-ups, he meets and falls in love with "Joyce" (Patricia Medina), settles down to middle-class inn-keeping for a while before he goes back to his old ways with friend Tom King (Tom Tully). That's when he robs "Lord Willoughby" (Alan Mowbray) and relieves him of a document proving the existence of treason afoot - the price on his head rockets and his jealous friend "Cecile" (Suzanne Dalbert) sets about betraying him too. At times it is quite exciting - his break-neck race to York on "Black Bess", for example - but otherwise this just plods along with neither of the leading ladies having much on-screen charisma, nor dialogue to work with. Mowbray features sparingly as his foe and the direction is just, well, lacking... Hayward does try, but he has lost the glint from his eye and can't carry this all by himself as entertainingly he once could. I hadn't heard of this film before today, but after watching I'm afraid I am not really surprised.