Check out all of the posts tagged with "18th century".
The dashing Jean Marais stars as Henri de Lagardère, an adventurer knight, who, along with popular French comedian Bourvil as his sidekick Passepoil, performs lots of derring-dos during the Regency of Louis XV, in director […]
Director Peter Graham Scott’s 1962 Hammer Films period adventure is a generally very welcome reworking of novel writer Russell Thorndike’s Dr Syn, with the odd extra Hammer-style horror shock and fright to spruce up the […]
George Arliss’s last movie sees him as Dr Syn, the 18th-century vicar of Dymchurch, Kent, by day but moonlighting as the notorious pirate Captain Clegg by night. Old-style actor Arliss gives an antique barnstorming performance […]
An excellent cast makes director Christopher Miles’s 1999 British period film work smoothly, nicely and entertainingly. Thanks to all the good work, it is a very considerable success, and a very successful transfer of a play […]
Director Christian-Jacque’s sunny, sweet-natured French 1952 swashbuckling romantic comedy adventure stars the dashingly handsome young Gérard Philipe as Fanfan, a cheeky soldier who enrolls in the wars of Louis XV (King of France from 1715 […]
Director Michael Mann’s admired 1992 period adventure movie solidly remakes the 1936 original sound version of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel of the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans with Randolph Scott and Binnie Barnes. […]
A naturalist, Chevalier Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), and his Iroquois hunter buddy Mani (Mark Dacascos) are sent to track down a beast killing folk in the 18th-century French countryside. Co-writer/ director Christophe Gans’s […]