Cardinal Richelieu (1935)

Directors

Rowland V. Lee

Cast

Arthur Treacher, Boyd Irwin, Cesar Romero, Douglass Dumbrille, Edward Arnold, Francis Lister, George Arliss, Gilbert Emery, Guy Bellis, Halliwell Hobbes, Herbert Bunston, Holmes Herbert, John Carradine, Katharine Alexander, Leonard Mudie, Lionel Belmore, Lumsden Hare, Maureen O'Sullivan, Murray Kinnell, Reginald Sheffield, Russell Hicks, Violet Kemble-Cooper, William Worthington

The story

In the year 1630, the great feudal lords of France complain to the Pope that Cardinal Armand Richelieu, chief advisor and War Minister to King Louis XIII of France as well as a Prince of the Catholic Church, is confiscating their lands and taking away their local ruling rights, in order to make the king an absolute ruler. Back home in Paris, the weak King Louis’s wife Queen Anne and his mother, who likes his younger brother Gaston, Duke of Orleans, better, are plotting with some of the great lords to depose Louis and make Gaston King, thus preserving the nobles’ power. They try to stir Louis up against Richelieu by telling him about the…

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