The Gallant Blade

7/16/2025

What’s probably most remarkable about this standard swashbuckler is that for a change George Macready isn’t actually the baddie! Don’t worry, we find that out almost immediately as his boss (Victor Jory) decides that the best way to defuse a worryingly noisy French population was to give them someone else to hate. To that end, he orders his general “Cadeau” (Macready) to invade Spain. He’s not so keen on following orders, so together with his loyal lieutenant “Picard” (Larry Parks) sets off to change some minds. Along the way, the encounter the glamorous “Nanon” (Marguerite Chapman) who takes a bit of a shine to the young man and who also happens to be the lady love of the war-mongering marshal. Once they arrive in Paris, it’s conspiracies galore and it quickly falls to the young man to tr