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).
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.
Not exact matches
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).
But once Johnny Depp's inebriated
Captain Sparrow hits the screen, the swaggering
swashbuckler becomes an obsessive distraction for the directors.
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.
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.
One of the oddest postscripts to
Captain Blood, Errol Flynn's classic 1935
swashbuckler epic, is this Italian - French co-production, shot in Spain with an international cast, including 21 year old Sean Flynn, Errol's real son, who had a fleeting interest in screen acting before switching to photo journalism in the late sixties.
Featurette: «
Captain Blood: A
Swashbuckler Is Born» (23:00) / Leonard Maltin hosts: «Warner Night At The Movies 1935» Intro (3:10) / Newsreel (2:43) / Short Films: Musical Short: «Johnny Green and His Orchestra» (10:33) + Comedy Short: «All - American Drawback» (11:08) / Cartoon Short: «Billboard Frolics» (6:35) / Audio - Only Bonus: Radio Production with the Film's stars (58:33) / Theatrical trailer for «
Captain Blood» and «A Midsummer's Night Dream»