Sentences with phrase «of swashbuckler»

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It's in the mines (the dust keeps Blackbeard young, eternally — a Lady Bathory notion that tickles) that Peter meets Hook (Garrett Hedlund), who, at this moment in his career, is sort of a swashbuckler in the Indiana Jones mold.
It models all the details of the pirate life and misses nearly no part of a swashbuckler's sword swinging adventures.
As long as it met the conventions of the swashbuckler genre, it met my expectations.
It think it looks kind of swashbuckler / cowboy.
Whereas Brown does not consider himself a crusader and has no trace of the swashbuckler, the Australian - born Heathers, 35, revels in acting like a dinner guest who farts loudly — and unapologetically — during grace.

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What it's about: Archaeologist and professional swashbuckler Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) is hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do.
This drab swashbuckler thick with the dust Of his fellows who failed before him.
Star Wars offers tasty morsels of the western, monster movie, swashbuckler, historical epic and sci - fi thriller all in one package.
For most of his action - movie career, he has come across as a less romantically nimble, less self - amused version of Douglas Fairbanks, the swashbuckler who leaped through the silent era.
The first two films gave you your complete Musketeer fix, they explored every avenue, every nook and cranny of 17th Century France and pretty much gave you everything you could ask for in a swashbuckler.
Under the aegis of producer Arthur Freed, Sidney became a top director of musical comedies; he also proved adept at such larger than life swashbucklers as Scaramouche (1953).
and it shows the versatile scale of the 39 steps legendary actor robert donat's potentiality for swashbuckler gendre, and also it is donat's first collaboration with hollywood.
The stint was the beginning of a decades - long Hollywood career, over the course of which he did stunt work for many a cowboy star and swashbuckler.
In effect reprising his role from Peter Weir's 2003 swashbuckler «Master and Commander», the ever - reliable Bettany plays Darwin as a kindly fusspot who discovers that his austere view of death as an essential cog in the machinery of natural selection has the potential to outrage those who find consolation in an afterlife of clouds, angels and spiritual exoneration.
The script, by Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard, echoes swashbucklers of the past — entertainment for entertainment's sake.
Under the category of adventure films, we can include traditional swashbucklers, serialized films, and historical spectacles (similar to the epics film genre), searches or expeditions for lost continents, «jungle» and «desert» epics, treasure hunts and quests, disaster films, and heroic journeys or searches for the unknown.
Clarke, one of the stars of the upcoming spinoff flick «Solo: A Star Wars Story,» stopped by «The Tonight Show» on Monday to promote the film, which reveals how the young Han (Alden Ehrenreich) meets Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), among other details about the space swashbuckler.
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.
The film itself is quite a departure from the Fairbanks swashbucklers he'd become known for, such as Robin Hood, The Mark of Zorro, and The Thief of Bagdad.
Riggs, in the part of the avowed male chauvinist and opponent of women's lib, entered the Houston Astrodome — about as un-tennis a setting as possible — in a rickshaw pulled by buxom models to the theme music from the old Technicolor swashbuckler Captain From Castile.
«The Last of Robin Hood» The first credit on «The Last of Robin Hood» is for Lifetime Films — and truth be told, the phrase «it's a TV movie» is relatively accurate when it comes to Richard Glatzer's and Wash Westmoreland's look at the relationship between 50 - year - old swashbuckler Errol Flynn and 15 - year - old starlet Beverly Aadland, to whom Flynn was engaged at the time of his death.
It's possible that At World's End represents an anomaly or a serious attempt to re-capture the romanticism of classical Hollywood swashbucklers like The Sea Hawk.
This title is available separately, and as part of the Tyrone Power Swashbuckler Collection, which includes Blood and Sand (1941), Son of Fury (1942), Captain from Castile (1947), Prince of Foxes (1949), and The Black Rose (1950).
Set sail and step into the shoes of a young swashbuckler in Deadstorm Pirates.
In a star - making turn, Hemsworth plays Thor as an uncomplicated man of action with the moral clarity and love of derring - do of a»40s swashbuckler and the toned physique of a 21st - century underwear model.
With no trace of the freshness and wit Verbinski and Depp brought to the swashbuckler in their original «Pirates of the Caribbean», «The Lone Ranger» is content to simply pull another western trope out of the bag — the honky - tonk whorehouse, the ranch raid, the cavalry charge — give it a CGI spit - and - polish, and chuck it in the general direction of the audience.
A Kevin Kline performance in a role he was born to play is pretty much wasted in «The Last of Robin Hood,» a tepidly sordid account of screen swashbuckler Errol Flynn's last love affair with an underage girl, and his... Continue reading →
In an anticipatory mooring to the wild success of this summer's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, this movie and, indeed, all sorts of nautical swashbuckler DVDs and strange tie - in products have made their way to the market in the past six weeks — everything except that entirely un-clamored for special edition of Cutthroat Island (sorry, Renny Harlin).
Aged swashbuckler, pencil thin mustache, he's well - cast as the seducer of underage women.
A Kevin Kline performance in a role he was born to play is pretty much wasted in «The Last of Robin Hood,» a tepidly sordid account of screen swashbuckler Errol Flynn's last love affair with an underage girl, and his final days.
7:45 am — TCM — Scaramouche Stewart Granger was sort of a poor man's Errol Flynn in his 1950s swashbucklers — never quite had Flynn's panache, but hey, he tried.
8:00 pm — TCM — Scaramouche Stewart Granger was sort of a poor man's Errol Flynn in his 1950s swashbucklers — never quite had Flynn's panache, but hey, he tried.
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...
The fifth chapter in Disney's amazingly lucrative swashbuckler franchise initially based on the famous theme park ride, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the supposed last voyage of Captain Jack Sparrow and his infamous ship the Black Pearl.
Clemons will play the female lead in Z, the near - future reimagining of the classic swashbuckler.
Visual effects aren't the only culprit to the film's artificiality, the mortal protagonist Bek is a faint echo of previous desert swashbuckler archetypes, the story is categoric in its predictability and the dramatic tone of the film is always drowned beneath blasting fanfares.
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.
Band of Misfits (PG for action, mild epithets and crude humor) Animated kiddie adventure about a competition among three buccaneer swashbucklers (Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek) to capture the coveted Pirate of the Year Award by wreaking the most havoc on the high seas.
Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, one of the most romantic leading pairs of all - time, made their on - screen couple debut in the swashbuckler Captain Blood (1935).
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.
The usual suspects both in front of and behind the camera for an Errol Flynn swashbuckler included Cinematographer Sol Polito and composer Erich Korngold, whose rousing themes seem part and parcel with Flynn's high - flying exploits.
The Sea Hawk is the type of big - budget swashbuckler that Errol Flynn is remembered best for, and was the ninth film he and director Michael Curtiz collaborated on successfully.
The Revenant was a beautiful evocation of the most elemental of human emotions, while simultaneously delivering a classic swashbuckler.
At two full hours in length, James Goldstone's (Swashbuckler, Winning) film is an endurance test for people with short - to - moderate attention spans, especially as most of the so - called tense amusement park scenarios are ridiculously padded in order to stretch out the story to feature - length.
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.
Sword of Sherwood Yes, Douglas Fairbanks essentially invented the cinematic swashbuckler during the silent era, yet Errol Flynn's costumed spectaculars at Warner Bros. in the 1930s went on to exemplify the form for succeeding generations of movie lovers and moviemakers.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actually serve less as satire of the Disney swashbucklers than as part of a feeble take on the much - downloaded «SNL» rap short «Lazy Sunday.»
Well - made documentary of Errol Flynn's career, beginning with his decision to explore acting while a young lad in Australia, and the wild and sometimes adventurous events that dotted his gradual evolution as the premiere swashbuckler of the movies.
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