![]() I'm sure Costain better explained it in the novel. She's supposed to be English and that might throw a few people, but one must remember England at the time occupied a good deal of what is France. ![]() But she likes what she sees in the two exiled Englishmen. The title refers to Cecile Aubry the French accented daughter of a Crusader who is in Welles's harem. Welles has intentions of conquering China, an ambitious task that has failed most in history. A fact that impresses Mongol lord Orson Welles who gets Power and Hawkins into his service. ![]() In fact he takes off for adventure in the Far East with similarly minded Jack Hawkins who's most handy with an English longbow. A lot of people are telling Power to get over it, but he won't. In addition Power is still possessing those old prejudices of the original Saxon inhabitants against the Norman conquerors. Power is the illegitimate son of a recently deceased lord who left him some money to the distress of his wife Mary Clare and son Laurence Harvey because in effect in the will he acknowledged the affair that produced Power. The latter is what The Black Rose has plenty of. ![]() Costain was a popular novelist of historical themes and high adventure. After finishing his run in Mister Roberts in London, Tyrone Power stuck around to film Thomas Costain's novel The Black Rose.
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