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Posts Tagged "swashbuckler"

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Caravan *** (1946, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Robert Helpmann, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 6969

Stewart Granger stars in director Arthur Crabtree’s dashing, lurid, wildly over-the-top 1946 Gainsborough Pictures British black and white melodrama as Richard Darrell, a brave but penniless English writer sent by Don Carlos (Gerard Heinz) to take […]

Apr, 27

The Purple Mask *** (1955, Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, Gene Barry, Dan O’Herlihy, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 6351

Angela Lansbury described the Tony Curtis swashbuckler The Purple Mask as ‘the worst movie I ever made’. Director H Bruce Humberstone’s colourful 1955 costume-adventure swashbuckler The Purple Mask is set in 1803 France shortly after […]

Dec, 03

The Prisoner of Zenda ***½ (1952, Stewart Granger, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Robert Coote, Robert Douglas, Jane Greer, Louis Calhern, Francis Pierlot, Lewis Stone) – Classic Movie Review 4652

Director Richard Thorpe’s 1952 version is virtually a shot-by-shot remake of the 1937 The Prisoner of Zenda, with the same shooting script, dialogue and film score. In most cases, settings and camera angles are the same too. […]

Nov, 14

The Prisoner of Zenda ***** (1937, Ronald Colman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Madeleine Carroll, David Niven, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, C Aubrey Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4,650

Ronald Colman stars in the rousing 1937 swashbuckler movie The Prisoner of Zenda – the first sound version and definitive film of Anthony Hope’s classic novel.  Director John Cromwell’s most satisfying and extremely rousing 1937 […]

Nov, 13

The Son of Monte Cristo ***½ (1940, Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders) – Classic Movie Review 4649

Director Rowland V Lee’s 1940 adventure is a lavish, pacy and entertaining swashbuckler, reuniting the two stars of the previous year’s The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Louis Hayward and Joan Bennett. Louis Hayward stars as the […]

Nov, 13

Le Bossu [On Guard] **** (1997, Daniel Auteuil, Vincent Perez, Fabrice Luchini, Philippe Noiret, Marie Gillain) – Classic Movie Review 4196

En garde, mesdames et messeurs, for co-writer/director Philippe de Broca’s exhilarating 1997 swashbuckling adventure, based on Paul Féval’s classic tale of passion and revenge in 18th-century France. Daniel Auteuil gives a most spirited turn as Henri […]

Aug, 19

Prince of Foxes **** (1949, Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Everett Sloane, Felix Aylmer, Katina Paxinou) – Classic Movie Review 2652

Both looking good, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles lock swords in director Henry King’s beautifully made 1949 swashbuckler, set in Renaissance Italy in 1500. Power stars as the dashing hero Andrea Orsini, supposedly an artistic […]

Jun, 27

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