The Corsican Brothers (1941)

Directed by

Gregory Ratoff

Genre

drama film, swashbuckler film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Twin brothers are separated at birth and raised in different worlds. They both seek revenge on the man who killed their parents, and both fall in love with the same woman.

swashbucklingromanticdramaticfast-pacedadventurousmelodramatichistorical

What happens

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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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