

Open or shut… it can cost your life!
October 15, 1949
1h 27m
EN
Anthony Mann
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.

Robert Cummings
Charles D'Aubigny

Richard Basehart
Maximilian Robespierre

Richard Hart
François Barras

Arlene Dahl
Madeleine


Philip Yordan, Æneas MacKenzie
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Arnold Moss
Fouché

Norman Lloyd
Tallien

Charles McGraw
Sergeant

Beulah Bondi
Grandma Blanchard

Jess Barker
Saint-Just

Walter Bacon
Citizen (uncredited)
Walter Wanger Productions
US
Eagle-Lion Films
GB