Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is at his glib, athletic, swashbuckling best in this film based loosely on the life of Charles II of England. (The movie ignored the less savory aspect of the king's character.) Nigel Bruce is Sir Edward Hyde, his close supporter. Henry Daniell, so often the cultured villain, is here again the agent who is assigned to make sure that Fairbanks does not return from exile. Rita Corday is a Dutch girl who befriends him, and with whom he falls in love.
The climatic sword fight is set in a windmill, on the stairs, with definite overtones of the final scene in Erroll Flynn's
Robin Hood.
There is some excellent photography, and the texture of the film is much cleaner than many of the era.
Fairbanks and Corday
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