The script is noted for its even-handedness in depicting both sides of the conflict. Īndré is treated sympathetically in the film while Wilde's fictional Major Bolton is portrayed as more ruthless, particularly in the brutality he employs to accomplish his objectives. Another important departure from history is that during the course of events André saves Bolton when the latter is arrested for being a spy, something that never occurred. Bolton betrays this friendship out of duty in the film, but Karl Tunberg's script ameliorates that difficulty by having Bolton make attempts to save Andre's life. While historically André and Major Benjamin Tallmadge, Bolton's historical counterpart, did meet shortly before André was to be hanged as a spy (Talmadge's regiment of light dragoons was charged with guarding André), their acquaintance was not the longer-term and deeper friendship suggested in the film. There is also some rivalry between the men for the love of a beautiful woman, the fictional Sally Cameron ( Anne Francis). It weaves a spy/ counterspy tale in which British and American counterparts, played by Michael Wilding as the historical personage Major John André and Cornel Wilde as the fictional Major John Bolton (Bolton being the "code name" used real life Continental Army Intelligence officer Benjamin Tallmadge for this film it is simply treated as the character's actual name), each unaware that the other is attempting to outsmart him for the sake of their countries, deal with issues of honor, loyalty, and friendship. The film purports to tell the story of the creation of the "American Secret Service". The film is based upon the events in the American Revolution in which Benedict Arnold offered to surrender the fort at West Point to the British in exchange for money. It stars Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders, and Anne Francis. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended hisĬareer in near-cameos in minor adventure films.The Scarlet Coat is a 1955 American historical drama and swashbuckler in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by John Sturges. Tour-de-force adventure drama that brought him real acclaim as aĭirector. Several of his ventures into film noir in this period,īoth his own and other directors', are quite interesting
Led him to form his own production company with the goal of directing In the 1950s his star dimmed a little, and aside from an Spent the balance of the 1940s in romantic, and often swashbuckling, He playedĪ few minor roles before leaping to fame and an Oscar nomination as Production of "Romeo and Juliet" that Hollywood spotted him. It was not until he was hired in the dual capacities of fencing Stage, he appeared in the Broadway hit "Having a Wonderful Time", but Shortening his name to Cornel Wilde for the Though he continued to list his correct Hungarian birth in 1912 on Thereafter claiming publicly that he was born in New York in 1915, Shaved a few years off their ages in order to get work, Wilde Olympic fencing team, he quit the team just prior to theġ936 Berlin Olympics in order to take a role in a play. Received a scholarship for medical school, but turned it down in favor
He spent much of his youth traveling in Europe,ĭeveloping a continental flair as well as an affinity for languages.
His family Americanized their names and Kornel took the nameĬornelius Louis Wilde. In 1920, he immigrated to New York City with his parents, Rayna (Vid) and Vojtech Béla Weisz, and elder sister, Edith. Dashing actor Cornel Wilde was born Kornel Lajos Weisz on October 13, 1912, in Prievidza, Hungary (now part of Slovakia), to a Jewish family.
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