Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Burt Lancaster
as Dardo Bartoli
Virginia Mayo
as Anne de Hesse
Robert Douglas
as Marchese Alessandro de Granazia
Aline MacMahon
as Nonna Bartoli
Frank Allenby
as Count 'The Hawk' Ulrich
Nick Cravat
as Piccolo
Lynn Baggett
as Francesca
Gordon Gebert
as Rudi Bartoli, Dardo's Son
Norman Lloyd
as Apollo, the Troubador
Victor Kilian
as Apothecary Mazzoni
Francis Pierlot
as Papa Pietro
Robin Hughes
as Skinner