Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story

Napoleon and Josephine: A Love StoryIn this sweeping, epic true story, the romance between the most powerful man in the world and the woman who conquered his heart decides the course of Western civilization Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story. Napoleon Bonaparte (Armand Assante), the brilliant general who leads France from chaos to become the most powerful nation in Europe, controls the fate of a continent as he commands a seemingly unstoppable army. The man with the strength and ego

a bumbling heir to a large fortune

he finds himself subjected to the stentorian social critiques of her strident "working white-collar" relatives

and audiences eagerly queued for the seismic emotional ride of a film

as devoted a son as ever stood in any man's corner

Continuing his move into more assertive roles

Allridge (Walter Pidgeon) goes after the vicious petty Napoleon who holds a small town in his corrupt grasp

one of classic Hollywood's premier composers

Charles Ruggles ("Bringing Up Baby") and Rosemary De Camp (TV 's "That Girl")

MGM backed The Painted Veil with a then-opulent $1 million budget

he orchestrates a meticulous manhunt

and the storylines seen in this sixth season of The FBI (drawn from real Bureau files) reflected this

he - and the movie audience - sees the chain of events that turned Allen from amiable high-rise construction worker to brutal killer