Star of India

  • Adventure
  • Romance
1/2/1954
92

The most swashbuckling screen adventure in a decade!

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre's property if he will help her get possession of the 'Star of India,' a fabulous sapphire, held at the moment by Narbonne.

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  • Geronimo1967

    Pierre (Cornel Wilde) returns from his wartime escapades to his country home only to find that its been sold by the nasty Narbonne (Herbert Lom) to a Dutch countess. Katrina (Jean Wallace) informs him that she bought it after a tax repossession, but there might just be a way he could get it back. It seems that Narbonne has a beautiful jewel in his possession that was once a family heirloom of hers. If he can repatriate it with her, she will return his estate to him. Setting of to the castle, he discovers, quite quickly, that the rather foppish but shrewd aristocrat is no pushover and he is going to have to use all of his wits if he is to fetch the stone. Perhaps an impending visit from King Louis XIV (Basil Sydney) could help cause enough o...

    March 26, 2025

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