Black tulip movie alain delon biography
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The Black Tulip [La Tulipe Noir] *** (1964, Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Dawn Addams, Akim Tamiroff) – Classic Movie Review 5,670
The ung Alain Delon cuts a glorious dash – or a couple of dashes – in twin roles as French brothers Julien and Guillaume de Saint-Preux, in the entertaining 1964 French swashbuckler film The Black Tulip [La Tulipe Noir].
The young Alain Delon cuts a glorious dash – or a couple of dashes – in twin roles as French brothers Julien and Guillaume de Saint-Preux in this entertaining French remake version of the Alexandre Dumas swashbuckler adventure novel La Tulipe Noir, though the fanciful script bears little relation to Dumas’s story.
Cruel twin Guillaume is actually a bandit named the Black Tulip, masked lover of justice, in 1789 at the time of the French Revolution. He holds the area round the village of Roussillon in fear as a revolutionary, though the poor people respect him as a French Robin Hood. But Guillaume has to call on his idealisti
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Alain Delon
French actor (1935–2024)
For the cigarette brand, see Alain Delon (cigarette).
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (French:[alɛ̃dəlɔ̃]; 8 November 1935 – 18 August 2024) was a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman. Acknowledged as a cultural and cinematic leading man of the 20th century, Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the mid 1950s to early 1980s, and became an international sex symbol.[1] He is regarded as one of the most well-known figures of the French cultural landscape.[2][3] His style, looks, and roles, which made him an international icon, earned him enduring popularity.[4]
Delon achieved critical acclaim for his roles in films such as Women Are Weak (1959), Purple Noon (1960), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), L'Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), Any Number Can Win (1963), The Black Tulip (1964), The Last Adventure (1967), Le Samouraï (1967)
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The Black Tulip (1964 film)
1964 film by Christian-Jaque
The Black Tulip (French: La Tulipe noire) is a French-Italian-Spanish film which reused some names in the novel of the same title[3] by Alexandre Dumas but its story does not follow the novel. It is, essentially, a star vehicle for the popular French actor Alain Delon.
Synopsis
[edit]In June 1789 in the town of Roussillon, aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume.[4]
Guillaume asks his twin brother Julien to impersonate him. Julien is much more gentle and idealistic than his brother. While the impersonation goes well at first, Julien is shocked to discover that Guillaume robs aristocrats for the thrill and