Cloak-and-dagger film

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A Cloak-and-dagger film is a genre of adventure films playing in historical times.

In spite of the definition "cloak-and-dagger", the movies usually contain action with persons fighting with swords (epees) and wearing historical cloaks or capes. The time of setting in the movies usually is commencing the 15th century until the late 18th century and the action often takes place in France, Spain, Italy or even in California.

Characters involved in such movies are of a swashbuckling type, like Zorro, Musketeers (like The Three Musketeers invented by Alexandre Dumas) and even pirates (The Crimson Pirate, Captain Blood).

Stories of these movies include filmisations of known novels, like the above mentioned The Three Musketeers or Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini or Zorro by Johnston McCulley, as well as scripts being directly written for film, later then often being novelised, like for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), being novelised in German by Wolfgang Hohlbein or in English by Irene Trimble.

[edit] Known cloak-and-dagger films

• Fanfan la Tulipe (1907)
• The Mark of Zorro (1920)
• Les trois mousquetaires (1921)
• Fanfan-la-Tulipe (1952)
• The Iron Mask (1929)
• Zorro Rides Again (1937)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
• The Mark of Zorro (1940)
• The Three Musketeers (1948)
• At Sword's Point (1950)
• Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)
• Scaramouche (1952)
• Les Trois mousquetaires (1953)
• Il Visconte di Bragelonne (1954)
• I Cavalieri della regina (1955)
• Les Trois mousquetaires: Les ferrets de la reine (1961)
• Les Trois mousquetaires: La vengeance de Milady (1961)
• Le Capitaine Fracasse (1961)
• Il Colpo segreto di d'Artagnan (1962)
• Le Chevalier de Pardaillan (1962)
• Cabalgando hacia la muerte - El Zorro (1962)
• La Venganza del Zorro (1962)
• Il Segno di Zorro (1963)
• D'Artagnan contro i tre moschettieri (1963)
• Le Tre spade di Zorro (1963)
• La Máscara de Scaramouche (1963)
• Hardi! Pardaillan (1964)
• El Zorro cabalga otra vez (1965)
• Isabella, duchessa dei diavoli (1969)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• The Four Musketeers (1974)
• Trois mousquetaires (1974)
• Zorro (1975, with Alain Delon)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
• The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
• The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
• The Three Musketeers (1993)
• La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
• The Mask of Zorro (1998)
• The Musketeer (2001)
• Fanfan la tulipe (2003)
• The Legend of Zorro (2005)