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In French with English subtitles. also known as Tower of Nesle and
Tower of Lust.
The French
La Tour de Nesle was the third Alexandre Dumas adaptation to be released in the first six weeks of 1955. The film was scripted by the legendary Abel Gance, who also directed after a 12-year absence from the screen. The somewhat mystical story concerns a sensuous Queen (
Silvana Pampanini) who delights in luring noblemen to their doom. For this purpose, she has constructed a high tower, where she has imprisoned herself and two equally lovely lasses. Charmed by the naked trio, the noblemen are wined, dined, romanced--and then brutally murdered. Will Buridan (
Pierre Brasseur), the film's nominal hero, escape this grisly fate? Though not as innovative and elaborate as Gance's silent masterpiece
Napoleon,
La Tour de Nesle is nonetheless a lavish recreation of a long-past time and place.
