Charge of the Black Lancers

1962 film

Ottavio Alessi
Ernesto Gastaldi
Ugo Guerra
Luciano Martino^[1]

Produced byJone Tuzi^[1]Starring

Mel Ferrer
Yvonne Furneaux
Letícia Román
Lorella De Luca

CinematographyRaffaele Masciocchi ^[1]Music byMario Nascimbene^[1]

Production
companies

Royal Film
France-Cinema Productions
C.F.S. Kosutnjak^[1]

Distributed byVariety Distribution

Release date

31 August 1962 (1962-08-31) (Italy)

Running time

97 minutes^[1]Countries

Italy
France
Yugoslavia^[1]

Charge of the Black Lancers (Italian: I lancieri neri) is a 1962 swashbuckling adventure film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Mel Ferrer, Yvonne Furneaux and Leticia Román.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Sergio of Tula goes to Dubno to free Princess Mascia imprisoned by Queen Jassa, but he is instead seduced by the Queen igniting his ambition to let him commandeer her armed forces to have him seize her husband King Stephen's throne.

Cast

Mel Ferrer as Andrea
Yvonne Furneaux as Jassa
Leticia Román as Mascia
Lorella De Luca as Samal
Jean Claudio as Prince Sergio
Annibale Ninchi as Prince Nikiev
Franco Silva as Gamul
Nando Tamberlani as King Stefano III
Renato De Carmine as Polish Prince
Arturo Dominici as Chief of Krevires
Remo De Angelis as Official
Mirko Ellis as Member of the Council
Umberto Raho as Member of the Council

Release

Charge of the Black Lancers was released in Italy on 31 August 1962.^[1]

Reception

A review in the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that the film's story and sub-plots are "almost enough to fill three or four less exuberant action-spectacles" but was a better than average film of its genre noting its "pace, verve and panache essential for entertainment of this kind"^[4]

References

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 35.
^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia; Mario Pecorari (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 1992. ISBN 8876055932.
^ Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti – Dizionario dei film. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
^ "Lancieri Neri, I (Charge of the Black Lancers), Italy/France, 1961". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 31, no. 360. British Film Institute. January 1964. pp. 9–10.