“THE BELOVED ROGUE”
COMING TO MAJESTIC John Barrymore in “The Beloved Rogue.” his first United Artists picture, will be seen next Friday at the Alajestic. The film is Barrymore’s first independent production for United Artists release and it represents twice the time the story has devoted to any previous picture. As Francois Villon, the immortal French begger-poet, Barrymore loves ’em and leaves ’em in 15th century Paris; he plays pranks on the King and the Duke of Burgundy, leads his beggar band in routs and jousts, composes undying roundels in hovels while
carousing inhabitants of the strange Court of Aliracles jostle each other; he loves and loses Charlotte de Vauxcelles, and wins her at the end. Barrymore is Villon, the heartand gaol-breaking idol of the underworld of Paris, the crackling personality that inspired the pens of Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson. Conrad Veidt, the great German character actor, is King Louis Xl.—his first role in an American production. Marceline Day is Charlotte. The film was directed by Alan Crosland from Paul Bern’s script based on the life and loves of the high-living Francois. • The Beloved Rogue” was produced at the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio, Hollywood.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 111, 1 August 1927, Page 13
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