Lafayette
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jean Dréville
Michel Le Royer
Jack Hawkins
Orson Welles
Howard St. John
Vittorio De Sica
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In 1776 when the ill-equipped American colonies are fighting for their independence against superior British forces, General Washington sends Silas Deane to France to recruit officers and soldiers sympathetic to the colonies' cause. One such soldier is the Marquis de Lafayette, a hot-blooded, 19-year-old nobleman who defies both his father-in-law and Louis XVI in order to join in the fight for freedom. While on a mission to England, Lafayette meets General Cornwallis during a fox hunt. The two men meet again later on opposite sides of an American battlefield. During the fighting, Washington becomes so impressed with the Frenchman's valor that he puts him in charge of a plan to harass Cornwallis. The strategy is successful, and the British suffer a disastrous defeat at Saratoga. As a result of the battle of Yorktown, Cornwallis is forced to surrender, and the colonies win their independence.
Director
Jean Dréville
Cast
Michel Le Royer
Jack Hawkins
Orson Welles
Howard St. John
Vittorio De Sica
Edmund Purdom
Pascale Audret
Jacques Castelot
Folco Lulli
Wolfgang Preiss
Liselotte Pulver
Albert Rémy
Georges Rivière
Renée Saint-cyr
Rosanna Schiaffino
Henri Amilien
Gilles Brissac
Roger Bontemps
Jean-roger Caussimon
Sylvie Coste
Christian Melsen
Claude Naudes
Roland Rodier
René Rozan
Henri Tisot
Lois Bolton
Jean Degrave
Jean-jacques Delbo
Michel Galabru
Jean Lanier
Anthony Stuart
Crew
Suzanne Arduini
Hugo Benedek
Robert Braun
Maurice Colasson
Maurice Colasson
Jean Dréville
Pierre Duclos
Norbert Gernolle
Jacqueline Guyot
Roger Hubert
John Hunter
Maurice Jacquin
Maurice Jacquin
Steve Laurent
René Le Hénaff
Jean-bernard Luc
Jean-bernard Luc
Louis A. Pascal
François Ponthier
Claude Renoir
Jacques Sigurd
Norbert Terry
Françoise Tournafond
Bill Warrington
Léon Zay
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Yugoslavia. Opened in Paris in February 1962 as La Fayette; running time: 158 min; in Rome in November 1962 as Lafayette (Una spada per due bandiere); running time: 115 min.
Miscellaneous Notes
Technirama 70
