Posted in Doc Smith, Movies, Sci-Fi on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Ron Howard in Talks for the Lensman Series
Huh, not sure how I feel about this, but chances of it happening are still pretty slim anyway. They’d have to write pretty much all new dialogue, that’s for damn sure… but would that ruin the charm?
Posted in Administrative, Blogroll, Cool Stuff, Flynn, Movies, Pirates, Sabatini, Swashbuckling on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Melody over at Redeeming Qualities has invented a holiday that warms me right to my little heart. So read the book, watch the movie, maybe save the life of a revolutionary, liberate a bunch of slaves, or sack Cartagena if you like, because it’s Captain Blood Day!
Posted in Best Author Ever, Movies, Musketeers, Reviews, Swashbuckling on September 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »
So, apparently Turner Classic Movies is the place to go for strange, obscure, generally not-good swashbucklers. (For the record, they show alot of good movies too.) Not long after my recent discovery of the abysmal The Black Knight, I was treated to a double bill of films starring someone I’d never heard of: Louis Hayward. [...]
Posted in Best Author Ever, Comics, Cool Stuff, Movies, Pirates, Swashbuckling on August 28, 2007 | No Comments »
I haven’t intended for this blog to become a look at only comic books and movies, I swear it. Prose coverage is, as always, in the works as well, and meant to be the bulk of what is done here. Nonetheless, I must share with you a cool new cover, and the greatest team-up of [...]
Posted in Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on August 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Phew, ok, so it’s been awhile since I last worked on my gargantuan undertaking to cover (most of) the breadth of the Zorro mythos, but I guess that’s kinda fitting considering that I’m also skipping ahead nearly fifty years from the last part that I covered.
But first of all, for those who have no idea [...]
Posted in Movies, Swashbuckling on August 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite films of all time is finally going to come out on DVD. As a child I damn near wore out the VHS copy, and when I say that there is pretty much no film that I’ve been as desperately awaiting, (at least, not since Adventures of Robin Hood came to DVD) [...]
Posted in Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling on August 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I came across the strangest movie the other day. Apparently, in 1954, Alan Ladd made an Arthurian swashbuckler called The Black Knight. Who knew?
The first thing that strikes one about such a film, is how ridiculously misplaced Ladd is in the lead. For those who don’t know, Alan Ladd is mostly known for stalking about [...]
Posted in Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Tyrone Power, Zorro on July 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And once again (finally) we return to my delightfully (ahem) long-winded look at the growth of the Zorro character as a legend and a franchise. You can read everything so far here, here, aaaaand here.
Between the silent exploits of Douglas Fairbanks and 1940’s remake of The Mark of Zorro there were a good number of [...]
Posted in Fairbanks, Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
And so, we have seen here and here how the character of Zorro rollicked into pop culture fame in the early years of the 20th century. Then, five years after Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was catapulted from stardom to superstardom by The Mark of Zorro, he decided to return to the character–sort of.
1925’s Don Q, Son [...]
Posted in Cool Stuff, Fairbanks, Movies, Pimpernel, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
So, I certainly didn’t know that people had taken to posting public domain movies up on Google Video, but now that I do I figured I’d point it out.
First of all, the 1934 Scarlet Pimpernel that I mentioned the other day can be watched for free right here. Now, normally my problem with something like [...]
Posted in Fairbanks, Movies, Reviews, Swashbuckling, Zorro on June 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve already covered the novel to which the ever-so-classic Zorro character owes his creation, but it really wasn’t until that same novel got into the hands of one Douglas Fairbanks Sr. that the masked hero truly took off. I know that this is generally a book blog, but bear with me… it’s a great movie.
Before [...]
Posted in Flynn, Movies, Pirates, Reviews, Sabatini, Swashbuckling on June 8, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The vast bulk of our pirate story conventions come from Treasure Island. Duh. I do think, however, that one can safely say that the majority of those not originating from Stevenson come from the works of Rafael Sabatini–and movies based upon the works of Rafael Sabatini.
This, naturally, is because Rafael Sabatini’s books are, as a [...]
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