Scaramouche (All Region DVD) 1952 Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker

In France during the late 1700's, a man sets out to avenge the death of his friend at the hands of a master swordsman.
Director: George Sidney
This movie contains what is reported to be the longest fencing duel ever caught on film, a sequence lasting nearly eight minutes. Actors spent eight weeks preparing for this sequence, having to memorize 87 different individual sword passes and 28 stunts.