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Le Bossu [Region 2]
Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: French (Dolby Digital 2.0), English (Subtitles), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SYNOPSIS: The Comte de Gonzague schemes against his cousin, the Duc de Nevers, even though he is the Duke's heir and will inherit his estates. The Count has kept secret the existence of the Duke's bastard, recently born. When the Duke learns of his child, he journeys to wed the mother, a baron's daughter, in her father's isolated chateau. The occupants of the castle are surprised and murdered by the Count and his men. The only ones to escape are the Duke's friend, the skilled swordsman Lagardère, and the infant, a girl, now the rightful heiress to the Duke's vast fortune. The Count believes the pair to have drowned, when in fact they have been concealed by a travelling troupe of Italian players. Twenty years pass. The Count has discovered that the two survive and seeks to have them slain. But Lagardère gains the confidence of the Count, and employment as his bookkeeper, through his clever disguise as a hunch-back... SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access,
Price: $30.67
 Le Bossu [Region 2]
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| User Reviews |  | great movie
rating: 5
this is a great movie. the action keeps coming and there arnt to many lulls. this is a must have for fans of fencing/swashbuckeling movies. it is one of my new favs.
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Awesome movie.
rating: 5
This is one of my most favorite movies of all time. And that's saying a lot, since I usually go for straight up genre (horror, action) and not the more literary types of films that this clearly falls into.
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If you like the Three Musketeers...
rating: 5
This French feature film (with English subtitles) is *not* a Three Musketeers story -- but it has similar attractions. Set in the same epoch, it has sword fights, chases, disguises, pomp, and humor and wit as well as action and drama. The actors took pains to learn how to fence, and the sword fighting looks appropriately lethal. The story is tightly written, the acting outstanding, and the story surprisingly fresh. A movie to enjoy rather than endure.
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A rollicking Swashbuckler
rating: 5
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie so much, that I immediadtely bought duplicates for friends and family.
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A very pleasant surprise
rating: 4
Amazon's one-click feature, combined with Amazon prime, is an excllent tool (for them!) in that, at least in my case, it drives a lot of impulse buying. I find myself browsing through my recommended items lists one-clicking my way towards a smaller bank account and a huge pile of books and DVDs I'll never find the time to make it through.
On Guard was one of those items that, when it arrived, I thought to myself "what the hell was I thinking when I bought this?". It had been recommended to me because I had recently purchased another French film, the 6+ hour French version of The Count of Monte Cristo (which I've also reviewed and gave 4 stars).
Now, I've never read "Le Bossu" or anything else by Paul Feval for that matter, but I am a big fan of Alexander Dumas and it was the comparisons to his work in the helpful Amazon.com reviews that drove me to one-click a copy of On Guard.
My curiousity being piqued, the very evening the DVD arrived I settled down with a bottle of fine Bordeaux (ok it was an $8 California Cabernet) and watched it - and was pleasantly surprised.
I found the film to be very good - as I said before I haven't read anything by Feval (but may order something of his after watching On Guard) but the Dumas references were spot on, with Auteil's character himself having some very d'Artagnan-esque qualities, in my opinion.
I thought the film had plenty of swashbuckling action - certainly enough to keep it interesting and fast paced, but not so much as to turn it into a cheesy hollywood-style action movie with no plot.
I'm not going to go into the story because a) others have done so and b) I don't like spoiling anything in my reviews, but suffice it to say if you're a fan of swashbucklers, or of Dumas (and presumably of this Feval character), or if you just want to try something new and different from the typical crap hollywood churns out, I highly recommend On Guard.
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