| The Corsican Brothers | |
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| Directed by | Gregory Ratoff |
| Written by | George Bruce Howard Estabrook |
| Based on | Les frères Corses (The Corsican Brothers) 1841 novel by Alexandre Dumas, père |
| Produced by | Edward Small |
| Starring | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Ruth Warrick Akim Tamiroff |
| Cinematography | Harry Stradling Sr. |
| Edited by | William F. Claxton and Grant Whytock |
| Music by | Dimitri Tiomkin |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.3 million (US rentals)[2] |
The Corsican Brothers is a 1941 American historical swashbuckler film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in a dual role as the titular conjoined twins who are separated at birth and raised in entirely different circumstances. Both thirst for revenge against the man who killed their parents (played by Akim Tamiroff), both fall in love with the same woman (portrayed by Ruth Warrick). The story is very loosely based on the 1844 novella Les frères Corses (in English: The Corsican Brothers) by French writer Alexandre Dumas, père.
Dimitri Tiomkin was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score (Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture).
- ^ Hanson, Patricia King, ed. (1993). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1941-1950. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p. 478. ISBN 0-520-21521-4.
- ^ "101 Pix Gross in Millions" Variety 6 Jan 1943 p 58