Louis Hayward

Patricia Medina

Suzanne Dalbert

Tom Tully

John Williams

Malú Gatica

Alan Mowbray

Lumsden Hare

Barbara Brown

George Baxter

Ivan Triesault

Norman Leavitt

Stapleton Kent

Frank Reicher

Malcolm Keen

Sheldon Jett

Jimmy Aubrey

Alex Boles

Barry Brooks

Leonard Carey

Gene Collins

Leslie Denison

David Dunbar

James Fairfax

Al Ferguson

Frank Hagney

Charles Heard

Tiny Jones

Guy Kingsford

Arthur Loeb

Jock Mahoney

Hank Mann

Lester Matthews

J.P. McGowan

Tudor Owen

John Sheehan

Gerald Oliver Smith

Brick Sullivan

Harry Tenbrook

Ben Welden

Frank Burt

Ralph Murphy

Jack DeWitt

Robert Libott

Alfred Noyes

Duncan Renaldo

Gene Havlick

Frank Tuttle

George Duning

Henry Freulich

Helen Hunt

George Brooks

Clay Campbell

Harry Joe Brown

Lambert E. Day

Arthur Morton

Frederick Briskin

Herbert Stewart

Morris Stoloff

Harry Waxman

Adventure

Romance

The Lady and the Bandit

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

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.

English

HD Film Trailer - The Lady and the Bandit 1951