The Black Book | Robert Cummings | Thriller | Historical Film | Richard Basehart
The Black Book - Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine.
The Black Book (1949)
Director: Anthony Mann
Writers: Philip Yordan(story by), Æneas MacKenzie(story by)
Stars: Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Richard Hart
Genre: History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: United States
Language: English
Release Date: 16 July 1949 (USA)
Filming Location: Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Storyline:
Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked by him for the guillotine and a key to help him eventually emerge as the country's dictator. He hopes his agents will recover it, but, if it falls in to the wrong hands, it would mean his political ruin and death.
Reviews:
"True film noir, that densely urban, disillusioned body of work characterized by the deep shadows that separate the characters from each other and isolate them from society, was almost always set in contemporary cities... in France before WWII and in America after it. ALMOST... Anthony Mann's THE BLACK BOOK (aka REIGN OF TERROR) is one of its finest examples, a costume thriller set in the French Revolution, and somehow managing to create the visual style and emotional mood of true film noir in a completely atypical setting.
This is a film to watch for its cinematic, visual brilliance... The story is serviceable, but the experience it services is a thrilling piece of movie art. Photographed by the great John Alton (a man who, it is said, could re-light Times Square at high noon, if necessary) the frame consistently dazzles and intrigues. Anthony Mann's taut and claustrophobic work (rather at odds with the usual French Revolution epic, and with Mann's later work in other genuinely epic-scale costume dramas) draws a compelling parallel between the atmosphere of fear in post-revolutionary France and in mid-20th century McCarthyite America."
- written by "metaphor-2" on IMDb.com
Also Known As (AKA):
(original title) Reign of Terror
Argentina La sombra de la guillotina
Austria Herrschaft des Schreckens
Belgium (French title) Sous la terreur
Brazil A Sombra da Guilhotina
Bulgaria (Bulgarian title) Чeрната книга
Canada (English title) Reign of Terror
Finland Yllämme giljotiini
France Le livre noir
Greece (transliterated title) Nyhtes tis vastillis
Italy Il regno del terrore
Japan (Japanese title) 秘密指令 (1953)
Japan (Japanese title) (alternative title) 恐怖時代 (1953)
Mexico El libro negro
Norway 24 Timers frist
Norway (alternative title) Fireogtyve timers frist
Portugal No Reinado do Terror
Soviet Union (Russian title) Господство террора
Spain El reinado del terror
Sweden Skräcknätter i Paris
UK The Black Book
USA (reissue title) The Black Book
USA (working title) The Black Book (1948)
USA Reign of Terror
West Germany Das schwarze Buch
West Germany Dämon von Paris
West Germany Guillotine
Yugoslavia (Serbian title) (literal title) Vladavina terora
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