The Black Book (1949) Reign of Terror

Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Director: Anthony Mann
Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine. Cinematography by FILM NOIR lensman John Alton!

[@tomdooley4226]

I liked it! Lots of twists, betrayals, action, and a touch of the history of the French Revolution.

[@lawrenceclemens8494]

Such a great film. Amazingly, the choice was made to shoot a movie about the French Revolution as if it was a Film Noir story - AND IT WORKS. Director Anthony Mann was a genius. Everyone should see this for the terrific script, fine acting, sharp pacing, and incredible cinematography by the legendary John Alton. And what a host of villains! Arnold Moss, Richard Basehart, and Charles MGraw!!!

[@empirecity61]

I had never heard of this film. I am so glad KZbin suggested it. The story is compelling and the Director uses suspense and light/dark to tell the story very well.

[@Ronbo1948]

Why does the movie concerning the French Revolution's Reign of Terror of 1792 to 1794 remind me of what's happening in my country and the world starting in 2020 with the Great Lockdown? Pandemics, social isolation, insurrections, mass migration of desperate people, wars and rumors of war, and a pending world crash of the economics. No, we don't have a Robespierre and his Jacobins on the scene yet - but I'm sure there are modern stand-in waiting in the wings with Madame Guillotine. Like Leonard Cohen said, "I've seen the future - and brother - It's murder."

[@Satters]

dictator governments forcing the people into a dystopia the only way out of which is death

[@idamarsillo7327]

Ny sentiments exactly. This movie seems to portray a lot of the way things are today.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

instead of the black book its now the book of Revelation...

[@lesleyhughes4969]

It was an allegory about McCarthyism in the 1950s.

[@Songwriter376]

Because the same families who did this back then is still doing it now. Black book? obummer has it now.

[@marvinenglish-dw8ny]

Thanks you for great movies and happy New Year to you and the world

[@valtrus901]

Arlene Dahl.....my gawd. Outrageously attractive in her prime. The movie....lst time seeing it. A lot of intrigue, suspense and tension following the character exploits and plot twists of Cumming's character, who is forever nearly escaping from one scrape after another and not knowing who to trust, reflecting on the brutality and terror of the French Revolution and the regime of Robespierre. Interesting film and enjoyed it immensely. Thank you for uploading this gem.....

[@plips456]

It is a gem

[@Brembelia]

Excellent movie. Love period pieces! Thanks for posting!

[@cosettecopperfield8397]

The brilliant cinematographer, John Alton, delivers another masterpiece of black and white art. And, other than that, cliff hanging scene after cliff hanging scene. I'm exhausted. Now, that's entertainment! Thanks one more time PizzaFlix. You deliver with toppings. Mmm mmm, good!!

[@Kidraver555]

This really an amazing movie made with spirit and conviction and enacted by a group of diverse actors who would not come to mind as historical players at all, great story and well filmed, thanks.

[@idamarsillo7327]

I remember seeing this movie years ago. However it seems to be ahead of its time by just listening to the dialogue. Amasing! since it was made in 1949. May as well be today. Chariots chasing & crashing just like films today only now they are cars. Also Robert Cummings srems to be a super hero fighting everyone off just like today.

[@TheAsujaguar]

Richard Basehart is King of Actors.

[@plips456]

He was excellent

[@pammyjones1151]

He could be very sinister when he wanted to be.....good actor.

[@jeanraymondferron7797]

HE WAS MARRIED TO THE ITALIAN ACTRESS VALENTINA CORTESE !!!!!

[@GertjanZwiggelaar-mo4tz]

Well done! Very excellent film. Worth your time to view. Thanks for posting this gem.

[@Tralala691]

Stupid lady name. Good grief.

[@rogerscottcathey]

Arnold Moss (Fouché), who played Anton Karidian in: Conscience of the King, Star Trek, tos.

[@m.lecollie3565]

Great story. Beautifully filmed. Really top shelf stuff.

[@DigitalEelRich]

Great movie thanks!

[@francinebarr1204]

Robert Cummings one of the Great One ♥️

[@leonorebaulch6251]

Real democracy at work! Robert Cummings in a great role he did well....much better actor than his usual lightweight characters showed him....a good very fast paced movie....

[@chriseaston1392]

Thanks for the view.i love those old historical type storey lines.

[@Jason-ib4fk]

Good ol' Films, Film Noir, History AND a period piece! Does it get any better?!!! :)

[@alg11297]

Love that Bob! A film noir set in the French Revolution. Even ceilings, shadows and black.

[@treffensaintjohnllc2913]

There are some stunning camera and lighting techniques in this film. They are overused, however. Great job on the screenplay! Superb acting!

[@johnbuchinsky3193]

Darn good film. I don't normally watch period pieces. This was very exciting. Thanks for posting it.

[@TDL-xg5nn]

In Soviet Russia period pieces watch you.

[@elrjames7799]

@john buchinsky. Best to avoid splitting the infinitive then, perhaps.

[@elrjames7799]

@Cat Magic Not difficult to research and not so bad, as you write, but best to avoid it nonetheless.

[@ttacking_you]

@@elrjames7799 I like how you impose your expectations of grammar , hopefully society picks it up because we're too dumb , I had to look up infinitive

[@elrjames7799]

@@ttacking_you You're right about expectation, but is it really imposition? The research was done and now you know: a shared knowledge.

[@bboucharde]

Walter Wanger produced a number of decent, watchable films. This is another one.

[@robcochran6213]

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) Foreign Correspondent (1940) The House Across the Bay (1940) Scarlet Street (1945) Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947) The Lost Moment (1947) Joan of Arc (1948) Secret Beyond the Door (1948) The Reckless Moment (1949) Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) I Want to Live! (1958) Cleopatra (1963)

[@bboucharde]

@@robcochran6213, Thank you, sir!

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@robcochran6213 A great producer. An intellectual. He had the guts to produce " I Want To Live " in which the criminologist character who really existed states point blank that executed Barbara Graham was innocent, and thereby taking on the prosecutors, the whole establishment in California and has created waves right up to this day about her execution. Also produced ( as you say ) " Invasion of The Body Snatchers, " an allegory coming true - also to this day - his company produced " The Quiet American " that had plenty to say about the coming Vietnam War. A seer. A great man.

[@michaelfitzmichael3226]

@@ThePiratemachine shot his wife's boyfriend in the balls!

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@michaelfitzmichael3226 He discovered his wife, the gorgeous Joan Bennett, was having an affair with her agent, Jennings Lang, whom he confronted and shot twice in the groin, though not life-threatening. He had the brilliant attorney Jerry Geisler ( who also had defended amongst others - Chaplin - Errol Flynn ) defending him and was sentenced to 4 months. He liked starring Susan Hayward.

[@butterflyladeda1080]

Always liked Charles McGraw, always a hard man, but never a true villain.

[@rafaelnunez2038]

The ending was awesome Epic Napoleon Bona-fide 👏.

[@waderaney7]

Excellent ☺

[@bradstephan7886]

Thanks!

[@davidtstone2181]

Pay attention to this movie because if we aren't careful that's what's going to happen here. Already the democrats are making up their hit list.

[@ThePiratemachine]

D.L.-Stone Stone Up the steps to the guillotine in Time Square as Kamala Robespierre looks on gleefully rubbing her hands

[@billperspic2479]

worth watching Fantastic story

[@MrConan89]

Wow - James Bond stuff at 52.00. Great movie.

[@justdoit6706]

Love the accuracy of top hats during the 18th century lol

[@pbr8032]

It is, actually, very accurate. Men had worn top hats during French Revolution. www.pinterest.com/pocketmuseum/1790-1799-mens-fashion/?lp=true www.americanrevolution.org/clothing/clothing4.php Scroll down to the years 1790-1795

[@RoaroftheTiger]

Students of History … My Fellow Americans. Learn well. Any "politician" that refers to Himself, in the 3rd Person, is to be distrusted … such a person is a Menace to "Liberal-Democracy" !

[@ThePiratemachine]

RoarofTheTiger. It's a bit more serious than that, but I guess it's a clever, amusing remark.

[@RoaroftheTiger]

@@ThePiratemachine - Since when is "clever" or "amusing" Not accepted as a vehicle for Serious Thought ???

[@richharris2864]

This was pretty good

[@lanibooster7262]

I love it

[@waltonwayaugusta]

THE GOOD OL DAYS OF CINEMA

[@pbr8032]

Yes! Cinema at it's best...

[@moonysh3827]

In France this film is a shame. We all know that Robespierre isn't a dictator or a tyrant. He has never rule the France.

[@jeanstclairdelaroux2992]

I agree with you

[@Anosaan]

This movie is so ridiculous that I take it as a parody 😂

[@garyswift5]

Great movie. Ostensibly about the reign of terror during the French Revolution, but also seems to be about the evils of McCarthyism. Seems to be missing about 5 minutes though. Still enjoyed watching it. Thanks for the upload.

[@h2d127]

This was good.

[@nulladiessinerosa]

A fantastic film! While it does take a very standard, cynical view of Robespierre for the sake of the plot, the tension was killer and the end had me in awe. I actually cried, despite knowing beforehand how the story ends, as they say. Robespierre will always be a controversial figure, but I feel that this film allows at least a small view of him as something other than a bloodthirsty tyrant, which he wasn't. Vive l'Incorruptible!

[@ThePiratemachine]

Alona Hazen I'm afraid I disagree. Robespierre was a terrible man. Each to his own opinion. The only decent person in the whole dreadful thing was Charlotte Corday.

[@nulladiessinerosa]

@@ThePiratemachine Hi! I'm afraid we do disagree on this point, though that's quite understandable. If you'd be interested in some of my reasoning to the contrary, here's a very short and informative post about Robespierre: patientsisavertu.tumblr.com/post/165608380289/a-new-defense-of-robespierre-based-on-a-former. Cheers!

[@plasticweapon]

more like for the sake of history. robespierre was shit.

[@novoplaneta3520]

Obrigada!!!

[@ThePiratemachine]

Pretty good really. Napoleon of course, became Emperor, but so did Fouche become Head of France, albeit for a short time but he did live also to die in exile. Ahlene Dahl one of the most beautiful women on the planet and under it in Journey To The Centre of The Earth.

[@leonkirby8295]

Brilliant

[@ergbudster3333]

For perspective: altogether the French Revolution killed about 1500 people. Oh, that's awful! But at the fall of the Paris commune the state murdered 30,000 Parisians who wanted liberty. No mention of that anywhere. Odd.

[@StevenTorrey]

+Erg Budster There are a recorded 16,594 people guillotined under the 'reign of terror', perhaps another 40,000 killed or died imprisoned during the 'reign of terror'. Simply put, you don't know what you are talking about. What Paris Commune are you talking about? The one during the French Revolution or the one of 1871? Again, more evidence, you don't know what you are talking about.

[@davidbowen5621]

According to Readers Digest book Life Through the Ages, page 258, "By the end of the Terror, the king and queen and some 17,000 others had died beneathe the guillotines blade." And then there's the bloody crushing of the Royalist insurrection in the Vendèe region, as well as others who were assassinated, murdered, or deported to French Guiana.

[@RobertLewisromper]

How about the "Noyades" in the province of Britanny. Thousands of people were deliberately drowned by the French Republicans on rafts that were sunk in the river. There is a move now in France to have this listed as a genocide. As many as 4000 Catholic priests, nuns and others were massacred. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes

[@plips456]

1500 hundred people? More like 200 hundred thousand. What history books you been reading?

[@jostinmandumpal2824]

This moovie is now avaaaailable to watch here => twitter.com/5aa9bd4456177a9f5/status/834598811888611328

[@eaglewatcher11]

@2:14 Michael Scott, branch manager of Scranton Dunder Mifflin.

[@drraechristopher]

THE LIST THE BLACK BOOK

[@JMorris216]

great movie

[@mariopinot9884]

Nice.

[@richardelliott9511]

I'm more used to seeing Bob Cummings in his later work, so many light comedies. I've never seen him in a serious role, seems a bit out of place but he pulls it off ok. Many other familar faces, including a very young Russ Tamblyn!

[@Songwriter376]

The forces that did this then are doing it again now. Same forces.

[@michaelknapp8961]

Norman Lloyd is in this noir classic. He’s still alive at 104 years young.

[@jimyoung7366]

His was the last after 17,000

[@hannahrenee9870]

Who else is watching in 2020? ❤

[@Tralala691]

I’ll do you. Mmmmmmmm

[@jwbuq9qb]

That dude looks very much like the real Fouche

[@AKDGsonic]

very ruthless character comparing to the others in french movies

[@anvilhammer9026]

That was a beautiful woman.

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

Those French. Always taking things to a 12 when a 5 would suffice.

[@Jason-ib4fk]

Like extra spicy "Dijon Mustard?" lol :P But, you can't say they do things then "half-*ssed!" :)

[@TheTesemeau]

Thank you PizzaFix, you have made lying in bed with a cold as pleasurable as it can be, this is going to be great!

[@marquisdesade1501]

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses

[@richardlahan7068]

Better hope one of those corpses isn't yours.

[@jeanstclairdelaroux2992]

un film merveilleux

[@boleyn123]

Love Robert Cummings in anything, such a cute face. The film isn't bad, even though it has absolutely no basis in history of this terrible time.

[@pbrown6097]

Pretty decent movie

[@ttacking_you]

Oh this shit is on the rizzeal!

[@jonnyqwst]

Sol Kaplan the great composer did the doomsday machine

[@lindasturm699]

In the end, all the power hungry leaders of the people that started the revolution (Reign of Terror) suffered the same fate they had so quickly dished out, not only to the monarchy and the aristocrats but thousands of innocent people who spoke out even in private against anything they were doing. France then suffered under Napoleon, who declared himself emperor and set out to conquer the world using France's blood and treasures to do it. It took many, many decades for France, to come close to being a democracy.

[@idamarsillo7327]

I heard that Napolean had a brother who lived in NJ & so did he later on. Is this true?

[@juancastillonb]

This movie distorts widely the real facts as Robespierre really died...and his incorruptible behaviour ...he was a real hero ...He was pushed for the events to extremes that really didn't desired...eventually he was betrayed for dark purposes...as ever happens

[@ThePiratemachine]

Juan Caqstillon I'm sorry Juan, with the greatest respect and each to his own opinion, I think the man who reigned over The Reign of Terror was a terrible man.

[@plasticweapon]

robespierre didn't do nuffin? yeah, right.

[@accustudiesstoermer9872]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and will be reenacted w the GREAT REEST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,u watch,,,,,,

[@ThePiratemachine]

ACCUstudies Munich Can't help but feel it is going that way - The Committee For Public Safety - What a name. Used to be at school for teaching us kids how to cross the road safely.

[@haybee1246]

Smells a lot like the Scarlet Pimpernel....

[@broderickmwalker7861]

Jolly good show

[@rodneysammons5544]

10:43 The devils claw

[@mayesadasachannel9578]

the true story of the French Revolution you can find in Ann Coulter's fine book Demonic--chapter 4

[@Super241946]

Was that Russ Tamblyn as one of the kids??

[@simonegad]

yes. he's also a wonderful artist for many years.

[@richardelliott9511]

Thanks for pointing him out. Have watched a number of his interviews recently and apparently he was under contract to one of the big studios as a child actor, I think from a single digit age. Even now in his early 80s he is active and a joy to hear him share stories of his career, unfortunately this film wasn't mentioned.

[@Tralala691]

Awesome! France still hasn’t learned. Sad.

[@leslieellis5679]

28.22 3 bags full Charles

[@Alverthorpe]

I thought Robes' Pierre was the French name for a terry cloth robe...

[@filipematias5127]

The French Revolution was a crime against Humanity! It was a riot orchestrated by a bunch of traitors who manipulated the parisians to rebel, kill the King and destroy the Monarchy: the rest of France wasn't republican mostly remaining loyal to the Royal Family during the Revolution when the Ancien Régime was substituted by a Constitutional Monarchy! The french people in the provinces were fierce royalists even when the remainder surviving princes went into exile and right until General Bonaparte came into the political scene! Napoleon I was another usurper and war criminal who devastated Europe and ultimately brought ruin to France!

[@TheWpelt]

You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs. And do not forget the King was a tyrant, in no way like the present-day constitutional monarchs

[@filipematias5127]

@@TheWpelt : That's where you are wrong my friend! Louis XVI wasn't a tyrant as for instance Louis XIV or Louis XV but far from it! The jacobines spread that false idea and a kind of hate speech, lies and rumours to insurge the spirits of the parisian mob against him on several occasions because they wanted to end the Monarchy wether it was the absolutist Ancien Régime or the New Constitutional Monarchy that came out of the États Generaux and National Assembly! The Constitution was accepted by King Louis XVI and the fact is that he became King of the French Constitutional Monarchy from September 1789 until late August 1792! However he was virtually a hostage of the revolutionaries when he and his family were forced to leave Versailles and go to live in the Tuilleries in Paris where he was constantly under armed surveillance and forced to sign decrees even if he didn't agreed with them which was a prerrogative under his constitutional powers just like nowadays the President of the French Republic can do! He and his family were constantly under life threats and couldn't trust almost no one since most people betrayed the King and counseled him poorly (even his own cousin the Duke of Orléans and also General Lafayette betrayed Louis XVI)! Thus he was a puppet monarch instead of a real constitutional monarch and that's the reason why he made the "fuite à Varennes" to distance himself from Paris! You obviously don't know much about the French Revolution: I suggest you read the LAROUSSE French Dictionary about all the phases of the French Revolution if you want to get the full picture!

[@ThePiratemachine]

And also the vile things they did to Marie Antoinette in their disgusting defamatory smears and framing her in The Diamond Necklace Case ( which is a matter of public record and the trial transcripts available to read today of The Archbishop and his cohorts prove her innocence ) and what was done to the Princess de Lamballe and, of course, the great, self-righteous claimers to Justice let her psychotic killer get away. Charlotte Corday was one of the few of any any integrity in the whole event.

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@TheWpelt Almost all Louis XV1th's detractors concede he was fundamentally a decent man. And he and his treasurers balanced the books twice. It was the worst weather in years that wiped the crops out in 1787. And even more ridiculously, it is Louis and Marie Antoinette who declared war on England and French officers devised the plan at Yorktown to save Washington and give him the credit and enable the birth of The United States. Louis XV1th wouldn't even accept anything except a couple of islands for doing so and yet it bankrupted his country. Some tyrant.

[@barcalonga]

Hate all the ad interruptions in the middle of scenes. At least on tv they aren’t inserted in the middle of a sentence or dialogue or action

[@plasticweapon]

they aren't on the computer either, if you're not a boomer who doesn't know about ad blocker. stick to TV, granny.

[@drraechristopher]

NO DICTATORSHIP FOR AMERICA FOLLOW PARIS

[@sutlers2day]

A sort of historial film noire.

[@jimervin387]

Ahhh. It was all a dream. I hate those misleading shows.

[@mikemcgrath5188]

WTF!

[@evetko]

Napoleon ...

[@85smilitary61]

Who does this Robespierre thinks he is, the President of the United States?

[@bluevictory1010]

There's a President who thinks he's a king.......AHEM.

[@ThePiratemachine]

85's Military Methinks it's the other way round for the in-coming crowd.

[@Ronbo1948]

Yeah, Joe Biden all the way!

[@myrnagroger132]

Good film....ahead of its time; but Tyrone Power would have better than Cummings in the lead. N.B. had small part in it too.(ls)

[@ThePiratemachine]

Mynra Groger Of course Tyrone Power is in " Marie Antoinette " as Fersen, with Robert Morley playing a brilliant part as Louis XV1th.

[@mjhzen8313]

Typical old-style despicable Hollywood distortion of history. As soon as the credits finish, the inaccurate portrayal of Robespierre as a "fanatic with powdered whig and twisted mind" begins. The writers, Yordan and Mackenzie, the producer, Menzies, and the director, Mann, should all be ashamed of themselves for this monstrosity. If you want to learn about this time period, may I suggest four histories: 1) The French Revolution and Napoleon (Leonard Gershoy); 2) Citizens (Simon Shama); 3) The Revolutionary Career of Maximilien Robespierre (David P. Jordan); 4) Robespierre: The Force of Circumstance (John Carr). In all of them, I found not one word, NOT ONE WORD, that Robespierre was a fanatic, a madman, or was bloodthirsty. On the contrary, from what I got from reading these histories, Robespierre was the heart and soul of the French Revolution, and when he died, the revolution suffered the loss of one of its most dedicated advocates.

[@ThePiratemachine]

mijh zen And why should we believe Sharma, Jordan, Gershoy, or Carr? and not all the other historians who say he is? Any one who presided over a reign of terror in any country in any time in any circumstances even if he has a heart and soul of pure solid gold is a shocking murderer.

[@nulladiessinerosa]

@@ThePiratemachine Hi! I noticed you've left a few comments under this film and, yes, to each his own opinion. However, saying that Robespierre "presided over a reign of terror" is a bit strongly put. Many of the decisions of the Committee of Public Safety were made without or outright against Robespierre. In any case, to blame this one man (who was never dictator) for all the deaths of the Terror is merely a product of the events themselves: other leaders of the revolution used Robespierre as a scapegoat for all of their (collective) unpopular decisions. The amount of propaganda surrounding Robespierre's fall makes it difficult for historians to agree on the details, but to argue that some historians being outnumbered on a controversial topic means that their work has no value is simplistic, imo. By any chance, have you seen Danton (1983)? That might be a more thought-provoking watch. Cheers!

[@ThePiratemachine]

@@nulladiessinerosa Thanks Alona I know what you mean. I wasn't saying Robespierre was the only one ( maybe I didn't phrase it right ). Yes it is difficult to find original sources from which to derive the truth. Yes, I have seen Danton, the film from 1983 Nice to talk to you - Cheers

[@plasticweapon]

the french revolution was one long bloodbath, and you're an agent sock account here to indoctrinate people.

[@kazfleszar5899]

why dident that happen in the uk.

[@1960Sawman]

Some people think that the preaching of John Wesley singlehandedly prevented the French Revolution from infecting England. The French Revolution was very anti-Christian.

[@Wanamaker1946]

Ah yes, isn’t this so familiar. TRUMP2020 WalkAway2020

[@bluevictory1010]

I walked away from tRUMP after all his lies.

[@ThePiratemachine]

David Bell I'm sorry but I see it as the extreme Left with their so-called Liberty Equality & Fraternity is exactly the same as the liberty equality fraternity of The French Revolution that led into The Reign of Terror ( and I'm a Tulsi supporter Democrat ).

[@MarcusCactus]

Alas! in the '40s they still'had a perverted view of the French Revolution! Of course if you were an aristocrat you were better off in Austria or Prussia. But as a person frol the common, France was the liberating power!

[@plasticweapon]

HA HA HA HA HA! tyranny and terror are always "liberating" as long as they come from the left!

[@HoTrEtArDeDcHiXx]

Mandatory viewing for Critical Race Theory pupils

[@Anosaan]

So it seems like Thermidorians had great-great-great grandchildren who made movies 😂 For real, Fouché and his terrorist friends could've made that, if they were born in motion picture era! Thermidorian propaganda through and through but a good laugh nonetheless.

[@kazfleszar5899]

too much land belongs to too few people in uk and whys it so expensive compared with other countrys death the great leveller we will all be the same then we will all answer to god none of us will escape what we was in this life in joy your welth its fleeting you yes you will answer to him one day and your ritch es wont save you.

[@peasblossom1973]

+Kaz Fleszar Maybe if you could write in proper English you might be able to get somewhere.

[@kazfleszar5899]

cheap shot like you ha .

[@iceone1216]

A good education is everything!

[@davegreene8588]

@@iceone1216 A good education is of great importance, but it's not _everything_.

[@iceone1216]

@@davegreene8588 unfortunately, in today's world, not having a good education limits the opportunities one could have.

[@piranha5506]

I hope everybody realizes that this movie is a red scare era propaganda and not historically accurate.

[@Ronbo1948]

I hope you realize that Senator McCarthy didn't start his anti-communist crusade until 1950 - Nice try, Leftie - but no cigar. BTW, McCarthy was right about the commies infesting the federal government during the 1950s and before that decades starting in the 1940s.

[@lecomtedemirabeau5548]

@@Ronbo1948 I often saw people who were off-topic but you, your a special case

[@natfletcher1445]

Me have a WHITE one

[@PizzaFLIX]

Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart Director: Anthony Mann Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine. Cinematography by FILM NOIR lenseman John Alton!

[@emilyn12]

I didn't know about this movie. Is it an historical one? I like movies about the French Revolution.

[@emilyn12]

And Fouché became the official police director during the reign of Napoleon. I am always surprised to see that from the mornarchy, the French went to imperialism. Not much of a difference.

[@Master_Blackthorne]

+emilyn12 There is an old French saying, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."

[@Master_Blackthorne]

+emilyn12 Well, Hollywood history. St. Just, who was the one calling for everyone's blood, went to the guillotine with Robespierre. There was no "black book." People just got sick of Robespierre.

[@plips456]

Right! Still a great movie. saw it 1st at eleven years old. Just watched it again at 69 years old.

[@petermcgreevy6386]

Definitely Wrong Actor,Spoilt a good movie

[@whatevs4531]

This better not be the robues Pierre movie. If I hear that name even once this movie goes off. Edit: I'm not a minute fifty into the movie and I hear that goddamn name again....goodbye not one more second

[@plasticweapon]

bye, weirdy.

[@denniskeena5936]

The beginning of this movie reminds me of a Trump rally.

[@tinaarko6625]

Dennis Keena Can't even watch a movie without obsessing over the President. Your comment is ignorant and flies in the face of reality. Sad.

[@et3497]

Keep your political bullshit to yourself we came here to watch movies.

[@lindasturm699]

Dennis Keena Idiot

[@davegreene8588]

@@tinaarko6625 It's _your_ remark that's ignorant, flying in the face of reality. Sad.

[@tinaarko6625]

@@davegreene8588 What reality do you live in? Is it the one where you believe everything your told to believe? Is it the reality where the DNC strives for a dumbed down compliant society? Their words, not mine. You would know that if you bothered to take the time to read those DNC emails for yourself. You remember those emails, don't you? Anyone can read them. Your allowed to be as ignorant and hateful as you want to be. If you want to obsess over the President, that's your problem, not mine. You have six more years to do it.

[@sheilamacdougal9948]

Cummings is second rate and detracts from the general quality. Dahl was a better actress than usually given credit for. The actor playing Saint-Just is not convincing. He comes across as a matinée idol, not a bloodthirsty political fanatic. Unfortunate midcasting.

[@allanpenfeather6022]

Cummings was a fine actor. He could deliver his lines in a perfect English unlike other actors of the same era who portrayed English characters speaking in an American accent without worrying about their audience. Robert Taylor and Gregory Peck to name a few examples.

[@sheilamacdougal9948]

@@allanpenfeather6022 Maybe, but there's a lot more to acting than doing accents. De Niro and Bogart have never done any accent other than their own, so far as I know. But they're marvelous at doing different personalities. Cummings always comes across as a nerdy goody goody, whether he's playing a cuckold as in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, or here playing a spy. Kind of limited.

[@allanpenfeather6022]

@@sheilamacdougal9948 I, definitely disagree with you. People in general, have a tendency to look down on good looking actors. Assuming their only virtue is their appearance. De Niro tried to speak in a Sicilian accent in Godfather II. I think you wrong too, when you state that Bob is the cuckold in Dial M for Murder. To be true, Ray Milland is the cuckold who knew his wife was having an affair with Bob.

[@sheilamacdougal9948]

@@allanpenfeather6022 You're right: I meant he cuckolds the Milland character. Fine, de Niro does a bit of an Italian accent, call it Sicilian if you want, but he grew up in Little Italy and has Italian citizenship. I don't look down at Cummings for being good-looking. I stated my reasons.

[@allanpenfeather6022]

@@sheilamacdougal9948 No hard feelings at all! you are entitled to express yourself and your views. I just believe some actors got typecasted because they were always offered the same roles in different pictures.

[@michealfigueroa6325]

Another terrible A Mann film. I've tried to watch this film several times, but never get much past the first 13 minutes. Unlike other I don't think Mann had an ear for good dialogue. El Cid: "For Spain !"

[@Mindswamp]

I denounce this pretentious excuse of a movie.

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e4xcellent