The Rebel Son

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The Rebel Son
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Directed by Adrian Brunel
Albert de Courville
Aleksey Granovsky
Written by Adrian Brunel (screenplay)
Nikolai Gogol (original story)
Produced by Charles David
E.C. Molinier
Starring Roger Livesey
Bernard Miles
Harry Baur
Anthony Bushell
Patricia Roc
CinematographyBernard Browne
Franz Planer
Edited byLionel Hoare
William Hornbeck
Pat Wooley
Music by Stock music by Arthur Benjamin and Ernst Toch
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • 1938 (1938)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Rebel Son (also known as The Barbarian and the Lady and The Rebel Son of Taras Bulba [1] ) is a 1938 British historical adventure film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell and Roger Livesey. [2] [1] [3] Patricia Roc also appears in her first screen role. [4] It is a re-working of Aleksey Granovsky's 1936 French film adaptation of the 1835 Russian novel Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol, set in the 17th century Ukraine. [5]

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Plot

Cast

Reception

The Daily Film Renter wrote: "Spectacular conflict scenes pack main entertainment punch, but development is boring, acting melodramatic, and situations are ultra-theatrical. Offering for not too critical Patrons." [6]

Kine Weekly wrote: "It lacks conviction largely because it is a mixture of English production and interpolated sequences from an original French film, and there is some rather too obvious dubbing of voices. The picture's main assets are colourful pageantry and large-scale battle sequences. The late Harry Baur does well as a Cossack warrior who has two sons fighting on opposite sides in the conflict." [7]

Picturegoer wrote: "Made originally in French, this English version contains some of the spectacular sequences from the original and these are the best part of the picture. Harry Baur is good as a Cossack warrior with two sons, one of whom sympathizes with the Poles and is shot by his father. Neither Anthony Bushell nor Roger Livesey are happy in the roles of the Cossack's sons and the distaff side, too, has to fight at long odds to bring conviction to their parts. There seems little rhyme or reason for the plot except to introduce vast battle sequences." [8]

References

  1. 1 2 "The Rebel Son (1939)". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019.
  2. ↑ "The Rebel Son". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 15 February 2026.
  3. ↑ "The Rebel Son" – via mubi.com.
  4. ↑ Bergan, Ronald (31 December 2003). "Actress Patricia Roc, Rank starlet seen as the epitome of the English rose". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
  5. ↑ "The Rebel's Son (1939) - Adrian Brunel, Albert de Courville, Alexis Granowsky | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie". Archived from the original on 7 September 2022 – via www.allmovie.com.
  6. ↑ "The Rebel Son". The Daily Film Renter (3736): 11. 5 April 1939. ProQuest   2826356708.
  7. ↑ "The Rebel Son". Kine Weekly . 334 (1964): 22. 7 December 1944. ProQuest   2676975026.
  8. ↑ "The Rebel Son". Picturegoer . 9: 20. 4 July 1939. ProQuest   1771147136.
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