The Sword of Villon
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{{Infobox television episode
| series = Screen Directors Playhouse
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| season = 1
| episode = 22
| airdate = {{Start date|1956|04|04|df=yes}}Other 21 -- No Title Chicago Daily Tribune 4 Apr 1956: a8.
| production = Hal Roach Studios
| writer = Wilbur S. Peacock
|based_on =
| director =George Waggner
| guests = Errol Flynn
Hillary Brooke
Pamela Duncan
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"The Sword of Villon" is a 1956 American TV episode of the Screen Directors Playhouse series. Errol Flynn played Francois Villon.A Debut on Wimpole St.
The Washington Post and Times-Herald 1 Apr 1956: J3.Article 14 -- No Title
Los Angeles Times 4 Apr 1956: B8.
Plot
Francois Villon learns of a plot to assassinate the king, and gathers his followers to stop the plot and save the king's life.
Cast
- Errol Flynn as Francois Villon
- Hillary Brooke as Countess
- Pamela Duncan as Velvet
- Murvyn Vye as Bagot
- Lois Collier as Lady Elaine
- Mark Dana as Count
- Richard Avonde as 1st. Bully
- Sol Gorss as 2nd. Bully
- Nesdon Booth as Tavernkeeper
Production
The show was a collaboration between the Screen Directors Guild, the Hal Roach Studios and the J Walter Thompson advertising agency. In January 1956 the Screen Directors Playhouse announced they had signed Errol Flynn to play Francois Villon and it would be directed by Don Weis.
TV Survey of Love Offered to N.B.C. For a Spectacular
Special to The New York Times. New York Times 3 Feb 1956: 47.
Flynn made it just prior to his own show The Errol Flynn Theatre.{{cite news|title=Flynn to Do TV Film; Blond 'Queen' Becomes Idol of Location Site|last=Ames|first= Walter|newspaper= Los Angeles Times |date=4 February 1956|page= A5}}
Reception
Filmink magazine later wrote the episode was "more of interest as a curiosity piece than anything else but it’s not awful by any means and Errol seems engaged. The concept was actually strong enough to support a feature film."{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/films-errol-flynn-6/|title=The Films of Errol Flynn: Part 6 – The Final Adventures |date=December 15, 2019}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0696460/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11 Sword of Villon] at IMDb
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190528102827/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b775f082c Sword of Villon] at BFI
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