The Black Rose
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| Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
| Produced by | Louis D. Lighton |
| Written by | Thomas B. Costain (novel) |
| Screenplay by | Talbot Jennings |
| Based on | The Black Rose (novel) |
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Tyrone Power Orson Welles Cécile Aubry Jack Hawkins |
| Music by | Richard Addinsell |
| Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
| Edited by | Manuel del Campo |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.65 million (US rentals) |
The Black Rose is a 1950 20th Century Fox Technicolor film starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles, loosely based on Thomas B. Costain's book. It was filmed partly on location in England and Morocco which substitutes for the Gobi Desert of China. The film was partly conceived as a follow-up to the movie Prince of Foxes, and reunited the earlier film's two stars.
Talbot Jennings' screenplay was based on a popular novel of the same name by Canadian author Thomas B. Costain, published in 1945, introducing an anachronistic Saxon rebellion against the Norman aristocracy as a vehicle for launching the protagonists on their journey to the Orient.
It was nominated for Best Costumes-Color at the 23rd Academy Awards (Michael Whittaker).
The story takes place in England two centuries after the Norman Conquest (about 1300ce). Saxon scholar Walter of Gurnie is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Lessford and has been dispossessed of his inheritance by his father's Norman widow. After joining a group of Saxons who free hostages held by Lessford, Walter is forced into exile when he is recognized.
Walter flees England, accompanied by his friend Tristram Griffen, a Saxon archer, and sets out to make his fortune in Cathay during the times of Pax Mongolica. Walter seeks the patronage of Mongol warlord General Bayan of the Hundred Eyes and agrees to fight for him.
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