Captain Blood marked the beginning of the golden age of Swashbucklers (yes, every genre has an era known as its golden age; just go with it). Before it, the complications in recording sound while filming the movement inherent in the genre made these films impractical. Sure, a silent Douglas Fairbanks could leap off a mast, but sound swashbuckling
Buccaneerâs Girl (1950)
Singer Deborah McCoy (Yvonne De Carlo, best known as Lily Munster) is a stowaway on Capt. Duvalâs ship when it is captured by the infamous pirate, Baptiste (Philip Friend). She escapes and ends up in New Orleans under the tutelage of Mme. Brizar (Elsa Lanchester), where she is trained to be an entertainer at high
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Sea Hawk is a well-filmed, well-acted adventure yarn of pseudo-pirates and romance on the high seas, based, in name only, on a Rafael Sabatini novel. Errol Flynn plays privateer Geoffrey Thorpe with the charisma and bravado that was his trademark in the 30s and 40s. For two hours, we are taken into the Swashbuckling world where Thorpe
The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
In London, Sir Percy Blakeney (David Niven) is an effete loudmouth and fool, but in France he is the heroic Scarlet Pimpernel, who frees the innocent from the worst excesses of the French Revolution. His adversary is Chauvelin (Cyril Cusack), who will stop at nothing to attain the Pimpernelâs head or torch him or shoot
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967)
Robin (Barrie Ingham)âthis time a Norman and named âde Courtenayâ instead of âLoxleyââis framed for the murder of his cousin by his other cousin (Peter Plythe). He escapes to the woods with Friar Tuck (James Hayter) to join outcasts currently lead by a grumpy Alan-a-Dale (Eric Flynn). Even though they all hate Normans, they immediately
Bagdad (1949)
A Bedouin princess (Maureen OâHara) returns home from England to find her father murdered. She wants revenge, and so takes up with the sleazy Pasha (Vincent Price). The assumed murderer is Hassan (Paul Hubschmid), but is he the leader of the savage Black Robes or a hero on the run? Iâll include Bagdad as a
The Master of Ballantrae (1953)
During a Scottish uprising, a family decides to hedge its bets to save their fortune. Jamie Durie, the headstrong older brother (Errol Flynn), will join the rebellion while Henry (Anthony Steel), the younger and more reasonable one, will claim to be faithful to England. The rebellion fails and Jamie makes his escape with Francis Burke
Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951)
Lea Mariotte (Micheline Presle), a mistreated servant and social-climbing Creole woman, is arrested for murder. Captain Michael Fabian (Errol Flynn) gets her off by threatening the powerful Brissac family with a scandal because George Brissac (Vincent Price) was involved. While Fabian is at sea, Mariotte pushes Brissac to murder his uncle, and then blackmails him
Against All Flags (1952)
Brian Hawke (Errol Flynn) is an undercover agent among pirates. Capt. Roc Brasiliano (Anthony Quinn) doesnât trust him. Captain Prudence âSpitfireâ Stevens (Maureen OâHara) switches back and forth between lusting after him and wanting to skewer him. On his first pirate mission with Brasiliano, they capture an Indian princess and her caretaker (Mildred Natwick). Now
The Black Swan (1942)
Ex-pirate Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar) has been made governor of Jamaica, much to the distain of its previous governor (George Zucco) and his daughter, Lady Margaret (Maureen OâHara). Pirate Captain Leech (George Sanders) and his sidekick Wogan (Anthony Quinn) also are not to keen on the new situation, and sail off on The Black Swan
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
The queen of France has twin sons, later named Louis XIV and Philippe. The second is kept secret and sent off to be raised by the musketeer DâArtagnan (Warren William), with the aid of three godfathers: Parthos (Alan Hale), Aramis (Miles Mander), and Athos (Bert Roach). The young prince grows to be an evil king