Napoleon At St. Helena - 1929 - 6/10
AKA - Napoleon auf Sankt Helena
After Waterloo, the great general, the emperor, is heading for England.
Except Parliament decides he’s still too hot. And could still rally the Grande Armee.
So he, and his retinue, are dropped at St Helena, British controlled isle in the South Atlantic.
What ensues is a battle of wills: Napoleon, still possessed of his own greatness, and governor of the island, Hudson Lowe, a petty functionary, and martinet.
What follows is the gradual withering decline of the emperor’s health, and entourage.
Script by Abel Gance, this makes a nice footnote to his 1927 epic.
