Captain Scarlett ** (1953, Richard Greene, Leonora Amar) – Classic Movie Review 13,499

The 1953 American Technicolor adventure film Captain Scarlett stars Richard Greene as a Robin Hood-type avenger, and the Brazilian actress Leonora Amar.

Director Thomas Carr’s 1953 American Technicolor adventure film Captain Scarlett stars Richard Greene in the title role as a Robin Hood-type avenger, and the Brazilian actress Leonora Amar in her final screen role before retiring at 27.

Richard Greene plays dashing Captain Carlos Scarlett, thought to be dead, who returns to southern France after the Napoleonic wars to discover his estate has been confiscated by the villainous Duke of Corlaine (Manolo Fábregas), who reprimands Count Villiers (Eduardo Noriega) because his Spanish fiancée, Princess Maria (Leonora Amar), has run away. 

Captain Scarlett is a good enough, simple, escapist swashbuckler costume drama, made in Mexico with little originality or finesse, but it is still pretty good old-style fun for the kids and the young at heart. Greene leaps about athletically, obviously gearing up for his lead TV role in The Adventures of Robin Hood two years later.

It was apparently originally conceived as three episodes of a TV pilot but it was nevertheless shot in Technicolor and released in cinemas by United Artists on September 12, 1953.

It is in the public domain and free on the Internet.

Richard Greene

Richard Greene (25 August 1918 – 1 June 1985) appeared in more than 40 films, but is best known for starring in the long-running British TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood,  which ran for 143 episodes from 1955 to 1959.

Leonora Amar

Leonora Amar (1 March 1926 – 2 February 201n the mid-1940s moved to Mexico, where she was nicknamed The Brazilian Venus. After filing Captain Scarlett, she lived another 60 years.

She was married to the Argentine actor Luis Aldás.

The cast

The cast are Richard Greene, Leonora Amar, Nedrick Young, Eduardo Norriega, Manolo Fábregas, Isabel del Puerto, Carlos Múzquiz, and George Treviño.

Captain Scarlett is directed by Thomas Carr, runs 75 minutes, is made by Craftsman Productions, is released by United Artists, is written by Howard Dimsdale, is shot in Technicolor by Charles Carbajal, is produced by Howard Dimsdale, and is scored by Elias Breeskin.

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