The Black Rose | |
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Directed by | Henry Hathaway |
Written by | Thomas B. Costain (novel) |
Screenplay by | Talbot Jennings |
Based on | The Black Rose |
Produced by | Louis D. Lighton |
Starring | Tyrone Power Orson Welles Cécile Aubry Jack Hawkins |
Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
Edited by | Manuel del Campo |
Music by | Richard Addinsell |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Productions |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.65 million (US rentals)[1][2] |
The Black Rose is a 1950 British adventure historical film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power and Orson Welles.
Talbot Jennings' screenplay was loosely based on a 1945 novel of the same name by Canadian author Thomas B. Costain, introducing an anachronistic Saxon rebellion against the Norman aristocracy as a vehicle for launching the protagonists on their journey to the Orient.
It was filmed partly on location in England and Morocco[3] which substitutes for the Gobi Desert of China. The film was partly conceived as a follow-up to the movie Prince of Foxes (1949),[4] and reunited the earlier film's two male leads.
British costume designer Michael Whittaker was nominated at the 23rd Academy Awards for his work on the film (Best Costumes-Color).[5]