it has the essence of swashbuckler as well as the confrontation of good and evil, but it's dubbed with a sense of solemnity instead of the errolesque frivolosity which populates in this gendre. (rottentomatoes.com)
There he specialised in playing oily villains, most memorably opposite Errol Flynn in swashbucklers like Captain Blood, and seemed doomed to remain a sneering baddie until producer Gene Markey cast him in a 1939 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. (independent.ie)
But that was when Flynn was the charming, dashing and devilishly handsome star of such Warner Bros. swashbucklers as 1935's «Captain Blood,» 1938's «The Adventures of... (southflorida.com)