Swashbuckler

1976

Action / Adventure / Comedy

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 2117 2.1K

pirate caribbean sea tyrant

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Plot summary

A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Director

James Goldstone Photo
James Goldstone

Top cast

James Earl Jones Photo
James Earl Jones as Nick Debrett
Beau Bridges Photo
Beau Bridges as Major Folly
Geoffrey Holder Photo
Geoffrey Holder as Cudjo
Harry Basch Photo
Harry Basch as Banana Man
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
827.87 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 1
1.59 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Peter Boyle steals the show here as the

Peter Boyle steals the show here as the camp, but dastardly "Lord Durant" who starts off menacingly taking a bath (à la Cleopatra) and sets the tone for this daft, but fast moving adventure. Aristocrat "Debrett" (James Earl Jones) and pirate "Ned Lynch" (Robert Shaw) have had quite enough of this ruthless governor, so set out to get shot of him. What follows now are a fun series of escapades with the aptly named "Maj. Folly" (Beau Bridges) working to thwart their emancipating plan and Geneviève Bujold ("Jane") providing the glamour. It's a mess, this film. Shaw looks like he has read the Errol Flynn "Janet & John" book (and maybe taken a flagon or two before filming as well). JEJ is about as versatile an actor as one of his wooden ships and Bujold just hasn't got enough to do to make much impact. Anjelica Huston - she of the "Dark Visage" also features, but again sparingly and with little purpose. It must have been an hoot to make though, there is plenty of action and acrobatics and the denouement is actually quite fun in an hammy sort of fashion. Completely forgettable fayre, this - but enjoyable nonetheless.
Reviewed by ragosaal 7 / 10

Critics Were Wrong With This One

Critics were hard on "Swashbuckler" in my Country too. However I've been watching films for 45 years now and there are some things I'm pretty sure on movies. As most things in life everything is just a matter of opinion and each one's own preferences and tastes. Critics are just movie fans -like any other one- that have the possibility of making their opinions known, but that's the only difference with us, and in fact I don't agree with them very often. "Swashbuckler" is one of those cases. Considering this film within it's genre -there's no other way to analyze a film- I found it most entertaining and enjoyable.The first point in favor of "Swashbuckler" is that the director, crew and actors didn't take it too seriously and they aimed to an action, romance, amusing and unpretentious pirate movie; and they succeeded in my opinion.Robert Shaw was no Errol Flynn and he didn't even try to be but he is convincing as pirate Captain Ned Lynch who joins a noble damsel in distress (Genevieve Bujold) to fight tyrannic Jamaica governor Durant played by Peter Boyle (he isn't Basil Rathbone and also doesn't pretend to be) who achieves a most original and colorful villain (his deadly sword training with more than one opponent at a time is most enjoyable and interesting). The rest of the cast that includes James Earl Jones, a funny Beau Bridges and Angelica Houston are a good support too.Director James Goldstone does a prolix job in beautiful Caribbean outdoor sceneries and keeps entertainment all along with very well achieved action scenes and sword play.All in all, if you enjoy pirate films this is one to see (the critics opinions notwithstanding).
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