Caravan

Caravan

20/4/1949 1h 57m 5.5/10

Overview

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.

Director

Arthur Crabtree

Top Billed Cast

Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger

Richard Darrell

Dennis Price

Dennis Price

Sir Francis Castleton

Robert Helpmann

Robert Helpmann

Wycroft

Jean Kent

Jean Kent

Rosal

Gerard Heinz

Gerard Heinz

Don Carlos

Anne Crawford

Anne Crawford

Oriana Camperdene

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7/7/2022

6/10

This is quite an entertaining melodrama than really belongs to the devious, cowardly Dennis Price as dodgy aristocrat "Sir Francis Castleton" who is out to steal the fair maiden "Oriana" (Anne Crawford) from her beau Stewart Granger ("Darrell") who is on a mission to return a valuable necklace to Spain. The plot has plenty going on, twists and turns, robbery, amnesia and betrayal - and luckily a bit of Jean Kent as the mischievous Gypsy "Rosal" who has a sultry quality (but who dances with two left feet). Crawford is fairly sterile as a heroine, the dialogue is a bit on the gloopy side and the staging at times too theatrical for the settings - but it is still an engaging team effort with plenty of comeuppances to be had at the end...

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