The Black Arrow is a 1948 American adventure film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Louis Hayward and Janet Blair.[2] It is an adaptation of the 1888 novel of the same title by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Black Arrow | |
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Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
Screenplay by | Richard Schayer David P. Sheppard Thomas Sellar |
Based on | The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson |
Produced by | Edward Small Grant Whytock |
Starring | Louis Hayward Janet Blair |
Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
Edited by | Jerome Thoms |
Music by | Paul Sawtell |
Production company | Edward Small Productions |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1 million[1] |
A knight returns home after the War of the Roses and discovers that 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.[3] Only the former was made but Small made a number of other swashbucklers for Columbia.
Filming started 6 June 1947.[4]
The film uses leftover sets from The Swordsman (1948) and costumes and cast from The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946).[5]
The film is briefly seen in Kermit's Swamp Years (2002) while Kermit the Frog is hiding in a theater; watching the sword fight inspires him to go into acting.