Who is the second best swashbuckler after Errol Flynn?!
Question: there are other great swashbuckling films but no-one did so many as Flynn. Fairbanks in the Black Pirate and the Musketeer films but they are old silent movies and the acting is too hammy. Scaramouche with Stewart Granger is a top film of the genre, along with the modern Zorro films. 2nd and 3rd place is a toss-up between Burt Lancaster (the Crimson Pirate and The Flame and Arrow) and Tyrone Power (The Black Swan and The Mark of Zorro).
I'd have to choose Tyrone Power: he was a skilled fencer and his fight with Basil Rathbone ( a popular choice for villain in the Flynn films) in the Zorro film is a cracker. And as Jamie Boy he is a top pirate.
Answers: there are other great swashbuckling films but no-one did so many as Flynn. Fairbanks in the Black Pirate and the Musketeer films but they are old silent movies and the acting is too hammy. Scaramouche with Stewart Granger is a top film of the genre, along with the modern Zorro films. 2nd and 3rd place is a toss-up between Burt Lancaster (the Crimson Pirate and The Flame and Arrow) and Tyrone Power (The Black Swan and The Mark of Zorro).
I'd have to choose Tyrone Power: he was a skilled fencer and his fight with Basil Rathbone ( a popular choice for villain in the Flynn films) in the Zorro film is a cracker. And as Jamie Boy he is a top pirate.
Douglas Fairbanks was quite good....but I think Burt Lancaster in his younger days had a good swashbuckle.
Zoro. He could always buckle a good swash.
AFTER ERROL FLYNN THERE HASNT BEEN VERY GOOD SWASHBUCLING MOVIES - AND I DONT CARE WHAT YOU PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN FANS SAY!!!!!!!!!
- MAYBE MICHEAL YORK FROM THE MUSKETEERS
Has to be old Jonny Depp, Ahaaa!
pirates of the Caribbean had a good lot of swashbuckling in it Orlando Bloom aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
stuart grainger in scaramouche.
best swordfight on film.
Kiera Knightley of course!!!
Hi there.
Has to be Burt Lancaster for me, I just wish he had made more of them. As an ex-circus acrobat (with his partner Nick Cravat) he had the lot.
Cheers, Steve.