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‘Robert Louis Stevenson’s Great Adventure Story… Now a Monumental Motion Picture!’ Director Delbert Mann’s 1971 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the fourth big movie attempt at the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of adventure and romance – […]
Director Alfred L Werker’s 1938 20th Century Fox adventure Kidnapped is the classic vintage version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale about a boy, David Balfour (Freddie Bartholomew), who is kidnapped and sold as a slave […]
Director George Sidney’s 1952 MGM rip-snorting Technicolor adventure tale Scaramouche is based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini and has main star Stewart Granger swashing a florid buckle as André-Louis Moreau, who needs to wreak […]
Tess in 1979 was the final film directed by Roman Polanski for seven years until his 1986 swashbuckler pirate movie Pirates. Roman Polanski’s rollicking 1986 pirate romp Pirates boasts a jolly performance by Walter Matthau […]
A grand big British cast heads director Richard Lester’s exuberant 1975 comic swashbuckling adventure Royal Flash. Malcolm McDowell lustily impersonates Captain Harry Flashman, a 19th-century Prussian nobleman involved with sexy Swede, the Duchess Irma (Britt […]
Director Vincent Sherman’s 1948 romantic action adventure Adventures of Don Juan, the Warner Bros studio’s final super-production for its waning star Errol Flynn, is a thrilling, splendidly good-humoured spectacular. Flynn is on top form as […]
The 1964 film The Pirates of Malaysia stars Steve Reeves, who fights back as Malaysian rebel Sandokan with a group of renegade pirates of Malaya, in this moderate but very tolerable sequel to his 1963 […]