Cinematheque: The American Films of Max Ophüls

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. wrote, produced and starred in this swashbuckling story of King Charles II during his exile in Holland. When the monarch learns that Oliver Cromwell’s “Roundheads” plan to cross the Channel to assassinate him, he flees to the countryside where he impersonates a laborer and falls in love with a farm girl. “A poetic and pictorially lovely costume picture” (Village Voice), the film is an unjustly neglected work in Ophüls’s oeuvre. USA, 1947, 35mm, b/w, 95 min.