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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 28, 2019 22:45:05 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Feb 28, 2019 22:47:54 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Mar 1, 2019 8:16:13 GMT
I like this early DeMille talkie based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans
Nice.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 1, 2019 15:41:53 GMT
Barry Lyndon isn't a swashbuckler but it has a sword fight.
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Post by louise on Mar 3, 2019 16:19:05 GMT
My favourite swashbuckler is Against All Flags, with Errol Flynn and Margaret O'Hara. And of course The Court Jester, Danny kaye's duel with Basil Rathbone is classic.
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Post by hi224 on Mar 3, 2019 19:16:43 GMT
I like this early DeMille talkie based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans
I gotta say Fredric March was sooo amazing.
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Mar 6, 2019 4:18:04 GMT
The Moonraker (1958) - www.imdb.com/title/tt0050724/reference
Oh come with me my turtle dove.
The Moonraker is directed by David MacDonald and adapted to screenplay by Robert Hall, Wilfred Eades and Alistair Bell from the Arthur Watkin play. It stars George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Marius Goring, Peter Arne, Clive Morton, Richard Leech, Iris Russell and Paul Whitsun-Jones. Music is by Laurie Johnson and cinematography by Mutz Greenbaum.
With the English Civil War just finished, Oliver Cromwell (John Le Mesurier) aims to capture Charles Stuart (Gary Raymond) to stop him replacing his executed father on the throne. However, a Royalist hero known as The Moonraker (Baker) plots to smuggle Stuart to France before Cromwell and his Roundhead followers enact their plans.
A British swashbuckler full of derring-do heroics, sword fights, boo-hiss villains and gorgeous Technicolor photography. Why then is The Moonraker little known or under seen? Perhaps it comes down to availability on home formats over the years? Or TV rights preventing it from being shown elsewhere other than good old Blighty? Either way it's a shame and fans of swashbucklers should definitely consider seeking this one out.
The name Moonraker in this parlance is put to a smuggler who would hide his goods in the village pond and then go back at midnight to rake said goods out. Here the " Moonraking" involves smuggling important human beings out of harms way. The Moonraker in question is Earl Anthony of Dawlish, a Royalist Cavalier Scarlet Pimpernel type, a bally hero of devilish good looks and courage unbound; I mean why jump through a gap when you can dive through it instead? Cue under cover disguise, bluffings between hero and villains, simmering romance and a base station inn where many shenanigans unfold. It's not based on historical facts, it's a work of fiction, but much thought has gone into the period design, collectively impressive in architecture, weapons and clothing. How nice to actually see an English Civil War based buckling of the swash!
Location work is spread about the place, where even though much of the second half of film is based inside the crafty Royalist supporting inn, there's still some lovely exteriors to enjoy. The makers missed a trick by not homaging the lead character by doing some work at beautiful Dawlish in Devon, but Wiltshire, Dorset and Kent prove to be appealing places for scenes. Ronnie Hilton's theme song over the opening credits is a bit off the pace of the movie, in that it doesn't quite fit as a starting point, but the song itself proves to play well as part of the narrative.
Cast are mixed but nobody stinks the film out, Baker is no Flynn, Power or Granger, but he makes for a very likable handsome hero and he is very comfortable performing the excellently choreographed fight sequences. Syms looks radiant and gorgeous, even if the character doesn't call for her to thesp greatly. While elsewhere the most fun performance comes from Whitsun-Jones as Parfitt, a big rotund Royalist full of bluster and bravado, when asked his occupation he bellows "gentleman", you hear him and believe him and he will later on in the film get "one" of those great cinematic moments.
The Moonraker, hooray! If you be a swashbuckling fan then you owe it to yourself to put this on your list of must sees! 7.5/10
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Post by teleadm on Mar 6, 2019 19:25:48 GMT
from 1966.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 15, 2019 15:32:12 GMT
Basil Rathbone was quite the swashbuckler, in so many great movies.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 15, 2019 15:41:19 GMT
A few more modern and often overlooked swashbuckling movies I like are Romancing the Stone (1984) and the sequel, The Jewel of the Nile (1985). Also, I recommend Nate & Hayes (1983), a jolly good pirate romp! (See: My Pirate Thread)
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 16, 2019 3:54:27 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞 Loved Stone and hated Jewel … they shudda left well enough alone
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Mar 16, 2019 12:00:01 GMT
Lebowskidoo 🦞 Loved Stone and hated Jewel … they shudda left well enough alone I included it because I loved the characters so much from the first movie, but yeah, it was not as great as it should have been. There was meant to be a third movie but I think the lukewarm response to Jewel killed it...unless you consider The War of the Roses to be an unofficial part of the "trilogy."
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Post by ellynmacg on Mar 17, 2019 19:40:26 GMT
Here are two from Disney: and
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 19, 2020 15:15:02 GMT
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