Under the Red Robe (1923)
The $1,500,000 Picture That makes you see, feel, actually live the tumultuous scenes of romance and intrigue screened from Stanley Weyman's thrilling masterpiece of the Old France and the great Cardinal Richelieu.
100 min
A young man is tasked by the powerful Cardinal Richelieu to capture one of the cardinal's enemies but falls in love with his target's sister. The film marks the last motion picture appearance by stage actor Robert B. Mantell who plays Cardinal Richelieu and the only silent screen performance of opera singer John Charles Thomas.
- Release date
- November 12, 1923
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Robert B. Mantell as Cardinal Richelieu
- John Charles Thomas as Gil De Berault
- Alma Rubens as Renee de Cocheforet
- Otto Kruger as Henri de Cocheforet
- William Powell as Duke of Orleans
- Ian Maclaren as King Louis XIII
- Genevieve Hamper as Duchesse de Chevreuse
- Mary MacLaren as Anne of Austria
- Rose Coghlan as Marie de Medici
- Gustav von Seyffertitz as Clom
Crew
- Alan Crosland · Director
- Bayard Veiller · Writer
- Stanley J. Weyman · Writer
- William Frederick Peters · Composer
- Gilbert Warrenton · Cinematographer
- Harold Wenstrom · Cinematographer