Topic: Swashbuckler

Direction George Sidney

Cast Stewart Granger · Eleanor Parker · Janet Leigh · Mel Ferrer

Synopsis In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Robin Wright · Cary Elwes · Mandy Patinkin · Chris Sarandon

Synopsis Once upon a time, a feisty old grandfather told his bedridden grandson a tongue-in-cheek fairy tale... In the mythical kingdom of Florin, farm boy Westley (Cary Elwes) rides off one day to make his fortune, leaving his true love, Buttercup...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Lionel Atwill · Basil Rathbone

Synopsis The quintessential swashbuckler. Irsih doctor Peter Blood is wrongly sentenced to deportation and slavery to the Caribbean. There he amuses himself with insults at DE Havilland. He plans an escape and now seeking vengeance forms an alliance with the French...

Direction Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Vincent Pérez · Anne Brochet · Jacques Weber

Synopsis Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu) is a renowned swordsman and poet throughout Paris with one not-so-small defect, his nose. This physical attribute has caused Cyrano to believe that no woman could ever love him. His beautiful cousin, Roxane (Anne Brochet),...

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Keith Carradine · Harvey Keitel · Edward Fox · Albert Finney

Synopsis During the era of the Napoleonic wars, a conflict arises between two of the emperor's cavalry officers when one of them, the aristocratic Lt. D'Hubert (Keith Carradine), is sent by his superior to deliver the message to commoner Lt. Ferraud...

Direction John Cromwell

Cast Ronald Colman · Madeleine Carroll · C. Aubrey Smith · Raymond Massey

Synopsis An excellent cast and splendid photography make this the definitive film adaptation of Anthony Hope's swashbuckling novel. A British commoner is forced to pose as his cousin, the kidnapped king of a small European country, to save the throne. Complications...

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast José Ferrer · Mala Powers · William Prince · Morris Carnovsky

Synopsis France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with...

Direction Gore Verbinski

Cast Johnny Depp · Orlando Bloom · Keira Knightley · Geoffrey Rush

Synopsis Set in the Caribbean Sea in the 17th century, this is the story of a gentleman rogue of a pirate, Jack Sparrow. When Captain Jack Sparrow, an eccentric rogue, arrives at Port Royal, he barely avoids going down with his...

Direction Michael Curtiz · William Keighley

Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Basil Rathbone · Claude Rains

Synopsis In Michael Curtiz's swashbuckling spectacle about the infamous outlaw and his band of merry men who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor," Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Stewart Granger · James Mason · Deborah Kerr · Jane Greer

Synopsis Rudolph Rassendyll (Stewart Granger) is a British tourist visiting the nation of Ruritania in the Balkans. A number of people comment upon Rassendyll's remarkable resemblance to Prince Rudolph, who in a matter of days is to be crowned the nation's...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Stewart Granger · George Sanders · Joan Greenwood · Viveca Lindfors

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Elizabeth Taylor · Joan Fontaine · George Sanders

Synopsis Robert Taylor and Director Richard Thorpe team up for this epic tale of noble knights and beautiful damsels in this adaptation of the 1819 Sir Walter Scott classic. The story is of Wilfred of Ivanhoe and his quest to restore...

Direction Peter Weir

Cast Russell Crowe · Paul Bettany · James D'Arcy · Max Pirkis

Synopsis During the Napoleonic Wars, Lucky Jack Aubrey captains the crew of the H.M.S. Surprise. When the ship is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy, it is badly damaged and much of his crew is injured. In a bold and dangerous...

Direction George Sidney

Cast Gene Kelly · Lana Turner · June Allyson · Frank Morgan

Synopsis Gene Kelly heads up George Sidney's star-studded version of the classic Alexandre Dumas tale of adventure and espionage. In this wry, tongue-in-cheek retelling, the country swain D'Artagnan (Kelly) survives his prickly initial encounters with the Musketeers (all three separately challenging...

Direction Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Tyrone Power · Linda Darnell · Basil Rathbone · Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis In Madrid, the talented aristocratic military swordsman and rider Diego Vega returns to the Mexican California to reunite with his father, the Alcalde Don Alejandro Vega, and his mother. When he arrives in Los Angeles, he finds that his father...

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Errol Flynn · Flora Robson · Brenda Marshall · Claude Rains

Synopsis In the 1580s, the Sea Hawks -- the name given to the bold privateers who prowl the oceans taking ships and treasure on behalf the British crown -- are the most dedicated defenders of British interests in the face of...

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Douglas Fairbanks · Marguerite De La Motte · William Bakewell · Nigel de Brulier

Synopsis King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Sean Connery · Audrey Hepburn · Robert Shaw · Richard Harris

Synopsis Robin Hood is an old man when he returns with his best friend Little John to England after the Crusades. Maid Marian has entered a nunnery, King Richard is a raving lunatic, his Brother John a moron, and the age...

Direction Fernando Fernán Gómez

Cast Fernando Fernán Gómez · Paloma Valdés · Juanjo Menéndez · Antonio Garisa

Direction Augusto Genina

Cast Angelo Ferrari · Pierre Magnier · Linda Moglia · Roberto Parisini

Synopsis Cyrano de Begerac is joyous, witty, a poet, a leader and filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th Century France. He has only, an unusually long nose which makes unattractive to any woman. Thus, he cannot have the...