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 The Princess Bride (1987) is a whimsical tale of true love and high adventure. It follows the beautiful Buttercup, who is separated from her beloved farmhand, Westley, when he is presumed dead. Years later, she is betrothed to the nefarious...

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 In Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), a brilliant but self-conscious poet and swordsman, Cyrano, harbors deep love for his cousin Roxane. Despite his wit and bravery, he believes his large nose makes him unworthy of her. When Roxane falls for the...

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 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) follows the daring adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow, a witty and eccentric pirate, as he teams up with blacksmith Will Turner to rescue Elizabeth Swann, the governor's daughter, from...

Direction Michael Curtiz · William Keighley

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

Synopsis The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) follows the legendary outlaw Robin Hood as he leads a band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest to fight against the tyranny of Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. With King Richard the...

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 The Three Musketeers (1948) follows the young and ambitious d'Artagnan as he travels to Paris to join the legendary Musketeers. Along the way, he befriends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the titular trio, and becomes entangled in a web of political...

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 The Sea Hawk (1940) follows the daring adventures of Captain Geoffrey Thorpe, a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles Spanish forces threatening England. Set during the Anglo-Spanish War, Thorpe and his crew embark on risky missions to thwart...

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 and Marian (1976) tells the poignant tale of an aging Robin Hood, returning to England after years of absence. Reunited with his beloved Marian, now a nun, he finds a world changed by time and politics. King Richard's death...

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...