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