swashbucklers

Archival presentations include a film noir double feature hosted by Eddie Muller (who promises a brand spanking new 35mm print of the brilliant The Big Combo), four classic swashbucklers from the golden age of Hollywood, the 1933 hit comedy Tugboat Annie (which was shot in Seattle's Pike Place), and a couple of rare silent presentations: the 1919 A Sentimental Bloke from Australia and the noir-ish A Cottage on Dartmoor, directed by Anthony Asquith.

GreenCine Daily: SIFF. Preview. 2007

Flynn plays the lead with a panache unmatched in swashbucklers of the era (I’m a fan of both Stewart Granger and Burt Lancaster’s work as well), and though he was already looking somewhat too old for the part at 38, if any man was born to play Don Juan, it must have been Flynn.

Archive 2007-04-08 Bill Crider 2007

Calling five men in their late 70s and early 80s "swashbucklers" might be a stretch, but Monday night the five space veterans, all still trim and fit, displayed the early space program's swashbuckling élan as they held a panel discussion before an audience of more than a thousand persons at a sold-out event at the Chicago Hilton Hotel.

chicagotribune.com - 2010

Calling five men in their late 70s and early 80s "swashbucklers" might be a stretch, but Monday night the five space veterans, all still trim and fit, displayed the early space program's swashbuckling élan as they held a panel discussion before an audience of more than a thousand persons at a sold-out event at the Chicago Hilton Hotel.

chicagotribune.com - 2010

Calling five men in their late 70s and early 80s "swashbucklers" might be a stretch, but Monday night the five space veterans, all still trim and fit, displayed the early space program's swashbuckling élan as they held a panel discussion before an audience of more than a thousand persons at a sold-out event at the Chicago Hilton Hotel.

chicagotribune.com - 2010

This celebration engages our mythopoetic imagination with those early swashbucklers who had some admirable traits.

The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

Mr. Davies disapproves of the fevered effusions in Robert J. Casey's "The Lost Kingdom of Burgundy," published in 1928, with passages such as: "The kingdom lives because its motley kings, tatterdemalion warriors, guitar playing swashbucklers and mace wielding choristers have refused to remain in their moldy tombs."

Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time Henrik Bering 2012

I saw people as Romans, swashbucklers, farmers from the Middle Ages, and several disguises I could not figure out.

Untitled NaNo Project Ingrid K. V. Hardy 2011

If the Lakers were desperate swashbucklers, then Kareem played the role of Blackbeard, a passionate pirate king determined to prove that all eulogy reports given by the sports media were premature.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

If the Lakers were desperate swashbucklers, then Kareem played the role of Blackbeard, a passionate pirate king determined to prove that all eulogy reports given by the sports media were premature.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011