Films: Swashbucklers!
Annotation:Tyrone Power stars as a former pirate rebelling against the governor of Jamaica. Maureen O’Hara co-stars.
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Annotation:Real life former circus acrobat Burt Lancaster plays a particularly agile pirate in this wonderful lark of a film.
Annotation:Rutger Hauer is a curse medieval warrior striving to reunite with his love, the simply beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer. Co-stars Matthew Broderick.
Annotation:Tyrone Powers plays a foppish California Spaniard who is secretly the masked avenger Zorro. Basil Rathbone again plays the villain.
Annotation:Antonio Banderas is trained by the original Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) to take his place.
Annotation:A cowardly Bob Hope gets mixed up with scurvy pirates in this Technicolor spoof.
Annotation:A wonderful film that offers it all; romance, sly comedy, great swordplay and much old fashioned derring-do.
Annotation:Ronald Colman is a man who bears an amazing resemblance to a European king, and is forced to take his identity. This DVD also offers the 1952 version of the film starring Stewart Granger.
Annotation:Errol Flynn IS Robin Hoods in the brilliant, all-time classic. Basil Rathbone is tremendous as the main baddie, with Claude Rains and Olivia de Havilland joining in.
Annotation:Errol Flynn again, this time as a privateer working against the Spanish Armada.
Annotation:Seven unemployed samurai join forces to protect a poor farming village from bandits. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, and later remade as The Magnificent Seven, which the library also owns.
Annotation:The great Arabian sailor must wield his sword against all manners of monsters and supernatural villainy. Stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhaunsen.
Annotation:Robert Shaw is a particularly roguish pirate in this jaunty adventure.
Annotation:Errol Flynn is a doctor who joins a group of pirates to fight tyranny. One of the great sea adventures.
Annotation:Young Jim Hawkins gets involved with scalawag pirate Long John Silver (Wallace Beery). The library also owns Disney’s 1950 version, starring the outrageously hammy Robert Newton as Silver.
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Gunfights and explosions can be fun, but a guy getting right up in somebody’s grill with a sword just seems more impressive. Captain Jack Sparrow may have made the blade popular again, but roguish heroes were cheerfully shouting ‘en garde’ long before he did.
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