The Fighting Guardsman is a 1945 American historical adventure film directed by Henry Levin and starring Willard Parker, Anita Louise, Janis Carter and John Loder. Distributed by Columbia Pictures, it is a swashbuckler based on the 1857 novel The Companions of Jehu by Alexander Dumas.^[1]

A French baron leads rebels like a Robin Hood, stealing Louis XVI's taxes to give to the poor. He is love with an aristocrat woman, Amelie, whose brother Gaston is determined to catch the thief.

• Willard Parker as Roland, also known as the Baron de Saint-Hermaine
• Anita Louise as Amelie de Montrevel
• Janis Carter as Christine Roualt
• John Loder as Sir John Tanlay
• Edgar Buchanan as Pepe
• George Macready as Gaston de Montrevel
• Lloyd Corrigan as King Louis XVI
• Shelley Winters as Nanette
• Edith Evanson as Madame Paquin
• Mauritz Hugo as Andre
• Ray Teal as Albert
• Maurice Tauzin as Edouard de Montrevel
• Victor Kilian as Montebar
• Elisabeth Risdon as Madame de Montrevel
• Ted Hecht as Emile
• Ian Wolfeas Prefect Berton
• John Cason as Baptiste
• Ethan Laidlaw as Jacques
• Gino Corrado as Roualt

It was Parker's first lead role; he made it on his return from the army.^[2] Leslie Brooks was to play a key role but fell ill and was replaced by Janis Carter.^[3] Filming started in December 1944.^[4]

Variety said "Film, despite its period setting, is an overdressed cops-and-robbers opera with plenty of flintlock and saber play to provide the major source of interest... Henry Levin's direction strives too hard for swashbuckling effects and while the film-goes at a fast clip, it falls foo casily into hokey lines. Attempts to set off Parker as a superman capable of takine on a dozen adversaries imultaneously often brings titters. Acting is routine."^[5]

• The Fighting Guardsman at IMDb
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• The Fighting Guardsman at Letterbox DVD
• The Fighting Guardsman at TCMDB