---
title: 'The Adventures of Gerard (1970)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jerzy Skolimowski'
released: '1970-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 91
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'Switzerland'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-adventures-of-gerard-1970'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065375/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Adventures of Gerard (1970)

1970 · 91 min · Drama, Comedy, Adventure · United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy


## Synopsis

The Adventures of Gerard is a 1970 British-Italian-Swiss adventure comedy film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Peter McEnery, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach, and Jack Hawkins. It was based on the 1896 collection The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle. In 2011 the director called it "my worst movie".

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jerzy Skolimowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerzy-skolimowski)
- **Screenplay:** [Jerzy Skolimowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerzy-skolimowski), [H.A.L. Craig](https://cinepixo.com/people/h-a-l-craig)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Riz Ortolani](https://cinepixo.com/people/riz-ortolani)
- **Producer:** [Gene Gutowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-gutowski)
- **Director of Photography:** [Witold Sobociński](https://cinepixo.com/people/witold-sobocinski)
- **Editor:** [Alastair McIntyre](https://cinepixo.com/people/alastair-mcintyre)

## Cast

- [Peter McEnery](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-mcenery) as Brigadier Gerard
- [Leopoldo Trieste](https://cinepixo.com/people/leopoldo-trieste) as André Masséna
- [John Neville](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-neville) as Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
- [Solvi Stubing](https://cinepixo.com/people/solvi-stubing)
- [Ivan Desny](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-desny)
- [Paolo Stoppa](https://cinepixo.com/people/paolo-stoppa)
- [Jack Hawkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-hawkins)
- [Mark Burns](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-burns)
- [Norman Rossington](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-rossington)
- [Eli Wallach](https://cinepixo.com/people/eli-wallach) as Napoleon
- [Claudia Cardinale](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudia-cardinale)

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