Blood on His Sword
1961Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
Acted in
Jean Marais
as Robert de Neuville
Rosanna Schiaffino
as Jeanne de Beauvais
Roger Hanin
as Charles le Téméraire
Jean-Louis Barrault
as Louis XI
Guy Delorme
as De Sénac
Annie Anderson
as Catherine du Tillais
Raphaël Albert-Lambert
as Le favori de Charles
Raoul Billerey
as Jérôme
Jean Lanier
as Un évêque
Georges Lycan
as Sire de Gavray
Bernard Musson
as Un évêque
Pierre Palfray
as Mathieu
Jacques Seiler
as L'héraut
Roger Van Mullem
Laurence Lignières
as La chambrière de Bourgogne
Jean Blancheur
Paul Bonifas
as Le chirurgien / Doctor of Louis XI
Charles Bouillaud
as Olivier Le Daim
François Charet
as L'écuyer de Robert
Alberto Herrero Tirado
Benoîte Labb
as Une paysanne
Pierre Moncorbier
as Maître Ghislain
René Roussel
Richard Saint-Bris
Louis Arbessier
as Comte Hesselin
Jean Marchat
as L'évêque
Jacques Balutin
as Un spadassin (uncredited)
Raymond Bernard
as (uncredited)
Claude Carliez
as Un soldat (uncredited)
Yvan Chiffre
as Un baladin (uncredited)
Robert Dalban
as Le faux courrier de Liège (uncredited)
Franck Estange
as Un villageois (uncredited)
Henri Guégan
as Un baladin (uncredited)
Rico López
as Un baladin (uncredited)
Hubert Noël
as Récitant / Narrator (uncredited)
Paul Préboist
as Un baladin (uncredited)
Jean-Michel Rouzière
as Un soldat (uncredited)
Antoine Baud
as Un baladin / Un soldat bourguignon (uncredited)
