
Captain Fracasse
1961


“Sophistication has a name.”
2.8K votes
An art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
Director
David KoeppWriters
Streaming availability for India
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Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$60.0M
Revenue
$47.3M
Production Companies

**A film that is much better than the critics would have said. Unfortunately, it's excessively exaggerated, has a confusing script and excessive sexualized characters and situations.** David Koepp must have been very confident about this project. To make this film, he sought out a little-known character from a series of novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli, an author who will only be known by the English or by those who speak English as a native language. I have never found this author's books in Portugal. The film was a huge financial and critical failure, and I was afraid of what I was going to fi…
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