This is a bad film and, although it's not quite bad enough to be good, it was clearly made on the cheap for undemanding schoolboys with only scant regard paid to logic or character development.
Richard Greene was no major talent when it came to acting but he towers above everyone else here - especially the pretty but wooden Leonora Amar. Naturally the perfunctory script makes it impossible for anybody to deliver a believable performance that they'd wanted highlighted on the CV, but some performances are little better than school nativity standard.
The storyline is the familiar one about a nobleman returning to his homeland to discover his estate has been claimed by some unscrupulous tyrant. Greene's Captain Scarlett jovially sets about recovering what his rightfully his with he help of a similarly displaced nobleman and the princess he has rescued from one of the tyrant's cronies. The manner in which Scarlett and his sidekick escape from wall shackles is particularly memorable: With their hands shackled either side of them, they manage to retrieve the keys to their tethers from a guard using only their feet. In the next shot they are free with no explanation given as to how they managed to unlock themselves when their wrists were manacled to the cell walls.
Scarlett finally manages to defeat the cruel tyrant by having half-a-dozen locals distract his guards by running around in scarlet cloaks. Obviously a resourceful chap, we can only assume he rides around the countryside with a dozen or so neatly folded in his saddle...
Avoid unless you are prepared to leave all critical faculties at the opening credits.
Richard Greene was no major talent when it came to acting but he towers above everyone else here - especially the pretty but wooden Leonora Amar. Naturally the perfunctory script makes it impossible for anybody to deliver a believable performance that they'd wanted highlighted on the CV, but some performances are little better than school nativity standard.
The storyline is the familiar one about a nobleman returning to his homeland to discover his estate has been claimed by some unscrupulous tyrant. Greene's Captain Scarlett jovially sets about recovering what his rightfully his with he help of a similarly displaced nobleman and the princess he has rescued from one of the tyrant's cronies. The manner in which Scarlett and his sidekick escape from wall shackles is particularly memorable: With their hands shackled either side of them, they manage to retrieve the keys to their tethers from a guard using only their feet. In the next shot they are free with no explanation given as to how they managed to unlock themselves when their wrists were manacled to the cell walls.
Scarlett finally manages to defeat the cruel tyrant by having half-a-dozen locals distract his guards by running around in scarlet cloaks. Obviously a resourceful chap, we can only assume he rides around the countryside with a dozen or so neatly folded in his saddle...
Avoid unless you are prepared to leave all critical faculties at the opening credits.