Dick Turpin's Ride (reissued as The Lady and the Bandit) is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward.[1] It follows the career of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin. It is based on the poem Dick Turpin's Ride by Alfred Noyes.
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| Directed by | Ralph Murphy |
| Screenplay by | Robert Libott Frank Burt |
| Story by | Jack DeWitt Duncan Renaldo |
| Based on | Dick Turpin's Ride (poem) by Alfred Noyes |
| Produced by | Harry Joe Brown |
| Starring | Louis Hayward |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich Harry Waxman |
| Edited by | Gene Havlick |
| Music by | George Duning |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editHighwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Cast
edit- Louis Hayward as Dick Turpin
- Patricia Medina as Joyce Greene
- Suzanne Dalbert as Cecile
- Tom Tully as Tom King
- John Williams as Archbald Puffin
- Malú Gatica as Baroness Margaret
- Alan Mowbray as Lord Charles Willoughby
- Lumsden Hare as Sir Robert Walpole
- Barbara Brown as Lady Greene
- Malcolm Keen as Sir Thomas de Veil
- Stapleton Kent as John Ratchett
- Sheldon Jett as Ramsey Jostin
- George Baxter as David Garrick
References
edit- ^ "Dick Turpin's Ride (1951) - BFI". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
External links
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