---
title: 'The Corsican Brothers (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Gregory Ratoff'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 111
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-corsican-brothers-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033490/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Corsican Brothers (1941)

1941 · 111 min · Drama, Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

The Corsican Brothers is a 1941 American historical swashbuckler film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in a dual role as the titular conjoined twins who are separated at birth and raised in entirely different circumstances. Both thirst for revenge against the man who killed their parents, both fall in love with the same woman. The story is very loosely based on the 1844 novella Les frères Corses by French writer Alexandre Dumas, père.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Gregory Ratoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregory-ratoff)
- **Screenplay:** [George Bruce](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-bruce)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Dimitri Tiomkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-tiomkin)
- **Producer:** [Edward Small](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-small)
- **Director of Photography:** [Harry Stradling](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-stradling)
- **Editor:** [William F. Claxton](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-f-claxton)

## Cast

- [Douglas Fairbanks Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-fairbanks-jr)
- [H. B. Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/h-b-warner)
- [Walter Kingsford](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-kingsford)
- [Sarah Padden](https://cinepixo.com/people/sarah-padden)
- [William Farnum](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-farnum)
- [Pedro de Cordoba](https://cinepixo.com/people/pedro-de-cordoba)
- [Henry Wilcoxon](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-wilcoxon)
- [Nana Bryant](https://cinepixo.com/people/nana-bryant)
- [John Emery](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-emery)
- [J. Carrol Naish](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-carrol-naish)
- [Gloria Holden](https://cinepixo.com/people/gloria-holden)
- [Akim Tamiroff](https://cinepixo.com/people/akim-tamiroff)
- [Ruth Warrick](https://cinepixo.com/people/ruth-warrick)
- [Veda Ann Borg](https://cinepixo.com/people/veda-ann-borg)

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