| Dick Turpin's Ride | |
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| Directed by | Ralph Murphy |
| Screenplay by | Robert Libott Frank Burt |
| Story by | Jack DeWitt Duncan Renaldo |
| Based on | Dick Turpin's Ride (poem) by Alfred Noyes |
| Produced by | Harry Joe Brown |
| Starring | Louis Hayward |
| Cinematography | Henry Freulich Harry Waxman |
| Edited by | Gene Havlick |
| Music by | George Duning |
| Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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| Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Dick Turpin's Ride (reissued as The Lady and the Bandit) is a 1951 American adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward. It follows the career of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin. It is based on the poem Dick Turpin's Ride by Alfred Noyes.
Plot
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Cast
- Louis Hayward as Dick Turpin
- Patricia Medina as Joyce Greene
- Suzanne Dalbert as Cecile
- Tom Tully as Tom King
- John Williams as Archbald Puffin
- Malú Gatica as Baroness Margaret
- Alan Mowbray as Lord Charles Willoughby
- Lumsden Hare as Sir Robert Walpole
- Barbara Brown as Lady Greene
- Malcolm Keen as Sir Thomas de Veil
- Stapleton Kent as John Ratchett
- Sheldon Jett as Ramsey Jostin
- George Baxter as David Garrick
References
- "Dick Turpin's Ride (1951) - BFI". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
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- 1951 films
- American historical adventure films
- 1950s historical adventure films
- 1950s English-language films
- Films scored by George Duning
- Films set in the 1730s
- Films set in England
- Films directed by Ralph Murphy
- Columbia Pictures films
- Films based on poems
- Cultural depictions of Dick Turpin
- American black-and-white films
- Films about highwaymen
- 1950s American films
- Cultural depictions of David Garrick
- English-language historical adventure films
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