The Black Arrow (film)
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Theatrical poster.
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| Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
| Produced by | Edward Small |
| Written by | Richard Schayer David P. Sheppard Thomas Sellar |
| Based on | The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Starring |
Louis Hayward George Macready Janet Blair |
| Music by | Paul Sawtell |
| Cinematography | Charles Lawton, Jr. |
| Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
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Production
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Edward Small Productions
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Release date
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1948 |
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Running time
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76 mins |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1 million |
The Black Arrow is a 1948 swashbuckler film.
A knight returns home after the War of the Roses and discovers his evil uncle has murdered his father.
In 1947 Edward Small signed a contract with Columbia to make two films, The Black Arrow and D'Artagnan, the Kingmaker, an adaptation of one of the sequels to The Three Musketeers. Only the former was made but Small made a number of other swashbucklers for Columbia.
Filming started 6 June 1947.
The film uses left over sets from The Swordsman (1948) and costumes and cast from The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946).
Reviews were positive.
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