Sentences with phrase «more swashbuckler»
Clark Gable's Christian also had more swashbuckler to him than true seaman.
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In an attempt to brand himself as a serious actor, the smiling swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks starred in THE HALF - BREED (1916), a Western melodrama written by Anita Loos and directed with flair by... More
Uncommonly prolific across many genres (including Westerns, swashbucklers and musicals), Hungarian - born Curtiz made more than 60 movies in Europe and more than 100 in Hollywood, arriving in 1926 at the behest of Warner Bros..
Instead, we have generic sea battles (against men becoming sea creatures, though), occasionally violent moments, tons of new mythology and secret revelations (none of which mean much, and all of which feel forced), and a tone more in tune with a serious epic than a post-modern swashbuckler.
It's also not, unlike most other Robin Hood films, a fun, spirited swashbuckler, as Robin is more of a noble brawler rather than a roguish, playful thorn.
Director Scott Derrickson, best known for the derivative yet chilling Sinister, works in a robust old - school style that owes more to American swashbuckler films, Asian action cinema, and the Indiana Jones series than to the frenetic, cut - and - paste aesthetic of contemporary blockbusters such as Captain America: Civil War.
While Warner Bros. had dominated the period action / swashbuckler genre with their in - house star Errol Flynn in monster hits like Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, Fox was taking modest pokes at the genre in non-oceanic outings like The Mark of Zorro — one of the best period action films of the forties, and arguably the pivotal film that made Fox chief Darryl Zanuck realize that film's star, Tyron Power, could move closer to boats, swords, and more bare - chested combat.