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The Late Film: The Adventures of Gerard

BBC One
on BBC One London

starring
Peter McEnery , Claudia Cardinale Eli Wallach , Jack Hawkins
Spain 1808, and in Napoleon's Peninsular Campaign the forces of Marshal Messena are cut off from the main French army. Napoleon plots to divert the English by letting a false message fall into their hands, choosing as his courier the brave and boastful Colonel Etienne Gerard.
Jerzy Skolimowski 's version of this Arthur Conan Doyle story gives a new dimension to its conceited hero.
Screenplay by H. A. L. CRAIG
Produced by HENRY LESTER. GENE GUTOWSKI Director JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI. Films: p 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter McEnery
Unknown:
Claudia Cardinale
Unknown:
Eli Wallach
Unknown:
Colonel Etienne Gerard.
Unknown:
Jerzy Skolimowski
Unknown:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Unknown:
H. A. L. Craig
Produced By:
Henry Lester.
Director:
Jerzy Skolimowski.
Gerard, Colonel of the Hussars of Confians:
Peter McEnery
Teresa, Countess of Morales:
Claudia Cardinale
Napoleon:
Eli Wallach
Millefleurs, a renegade English-man:
Jack Hawkins
Russell, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards:
Mark Burns
Papilette, Sergeant of the Hussars of Conflans:
Norman Rossington
Wellington:
John Neville
Santarem, Count of Morales:
Paolo Stoppa
General Lasalle:
Ivan Desny
Marshal Massena:
Leopold Trieste
Source: Radio Times

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