Swashbuckler
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Movie Reviews of Swashbuckler
Movie Review: Awesome Pirate Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Great performances highlight this exciting tongue-in-cheek adventure!
Robert Shaw and James Earl Jones are wonderful, as is a fine supporting cast of character actors.
Of special note is the outstanding performance of Peter Boyle as a first class nasty villain! Seeing him today in "Everybody Loves Raymond" and then as pure evil is really something to behold.
Also watch for a tremendous sword fight between Shaw and Boyle that ranks with the best of them!
You'll really enjoy this one!
Movie Review: Swashbuckling fan for 24 years!
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie in 1976 at the theatre when it was first released. It went to see it twice. It had action, great actors with amazing voices, humor, romance and a wonderful score. What more do you want from a movie. For many years I forgot about it until I saw it at the video store and shared it with my teenage daughter. She loved it and has asked me to order it, which is why I am doing this review now. After 24 years, it's still a fun film that can be watched over and over again.Movie Review: A classic pirate movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although I don't yet have the DVD, I saw this movie when it was new and it has always been one of my favorites.
Robert Shaw is incomparable as Ned Lynch and Peter Boyle is a great villian as always. And Genevieve Bujold(when she was just a lass)is a smashing leading lady.
I recommend it to all!
Movie Review: Swashbuckler
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved it 30 years ago. It is just as much fun and light-hearted as it was then.Movie Review: Fun and Frivolous
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a pirate movie made in 1976 hearkening back to the swashbucklers of old and paying tribute to that genre without quite being of it. The emphases here is on getting treasure, getting the girl, getting the bad guy and showing off fencing skills (or the lack of them). Its all done in good fun and is enjoyable to watch if not taken too seriously.
The story takes place in the Caribbean waters around Jamaica. The island is run by a corrupt governor who does not hesitate to kill political opponents in order to confiscate their estates. He answers to nobody except the crown and the crown is very far away. In short, he is a "legal" pirate and has a penchant for the perverse. He is ably played by Peter Boyle.
The pirate captain is played by Robert Shaw. He is popular with his crew and struts around with a devil may care attitude plundering the governor's interests. He is also quite popular with the common folk of Jamaica and seems to be a sort of seagoing Robin Hood. He is aided by his sidekick/first mate played by a very young James Earl Jones.
Genevieve Bujold plays the daughter of a local nobleman imprisoned by the governor. She does not care for the pirate but is willing to swallow her pride in coming to him with a scheme to free her father. Predictably, she and the captain fall for each other.
Everything in this film is predictable as clockwork but is quite fun to watch. There are some differences between this product of the 70s and the original movies in the 30s. Bujold shows a lot more skin; Errol Flynn did not engage in dirty limerick contests with his first mate and the pirate ship is anachronistic by several centuries. These bits may serve to actually increase the modern viewer's interest factor.