Reign of Terror (1949)

19491h 15mdir. Anthony MannUnited Statesdrama film

Note: this print runs 75 minutes against a recorded 89 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart, Arlene Dahl, Arnold Moss, Norman Lloyd, Charles McGraw, Beulah Bondi, William Challee

Directed by Anthony Mann

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Reign of Terror (reissued as The Black Book) is a 1949 American historical thriller film directed by Anthony Mann from a screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie and Philip Yordan, and starring Robert Cummings, Richard Basehart and Arlene Dahl. Set during the French Revolution, the film follows a plot to bring down Maximilien Robespierre and end his bloodthirsty Reign of Terror.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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