Scaramouche

Scaramouche (1923)

A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.

Date of release
1923-09-15
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (16)
Runtime
2h 4m
Genres
History, Romance, Adventure, Drama
Director
Rex Ingram

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Red Studios Hollywood

Scaramouche is a 1923 American silent swashbuckler film based on the 1921 novel Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, directed by Rex Ingram, released by Metro Pictures, and starring Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, and Lloyd Ingraham.

Production

Scaramouche was an elaborate and unwieldy production that suffered from delays and cost overruns. Rex Ingram secured the rights to Rafael Sabatini's 1921 novel in September 1922, just after the release of The Prisoner of Zenda, a film he also directed and produced. Pre-production of Scaramouche took seven months. It was screenwriter and future director Willis Goldbeck first screenplay.

David Sharpe, a stunt performer who had played along fencing master Fred Cavens in Douglas Fairbanks's Robin Hood (1922), was hired for the fight choreography. Extensive outdoor sets by Harold Grieve representing 18th-century Paris were built on the Metro Pictures' backlot and in the San Fernando Valley, with up to 1,500 background actors. An experimental sequence was shot in Technicolor but proved unsatisfactory and was discarded.

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