Sentences with phrase «swashbuckler genre»

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.

As long as it met the conventions of the swashbuckler genre, it met my expectations.

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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.

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..