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Dangerous Exile (1957)

Dangerous Exile poster
Directed by
Brian Desmond Hurst
Genre
drama film, adventure film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A historical drama about a boy king who may have survived imprisonment during the French Revolution. It follows the attempts to protect him and the political intrigues surrounding his fate.

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What happens

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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