Gene Kelly embarks on a vendetta against the criminals who killed his father in Black Hand, his first dramatic outing.
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(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on March 5, 2018)
The cinematic saga of Wong Fei-hung begins here with Kwan Tak-hing's iconic portrayal of the folk hero in The [True] Story of Wong Fei-hung. (Or more accurately, The True Story of Wong Fei-hung: Wong Fei-hung's Whip That Smacks the Candle.) (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on January 5, 2018)
How the holy hell have I not reviewed a Buster Keaton movie yet in the four years I've been doing this blog? Time to rectify that mistake with The Cameraman, the first of his films I ever saw. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on December 21, 2017)
I should have learned my lesson from The Crimson Pirate - when Burt Lancaster is the star of a swashbuckler, run away screaming. That being said, I went into The Flame and the Arrow thinking it would be just another bad post-World War II swashbuckler. I wasn't expecting it to piss me the **** off as much as it did. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on November 16, 2017)
Sean Connery masterminds a daring theft in The Great Train Robbery, a well-crafted caper comedy set in Victorian England. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on October 17, 2017)
I can't give this breakneck classic comedy anything but love, baby - even if audiences felt differently when it was released. A mad artist sets out to create his greatest masterpieces at a hideous cost in House of Wax, a classic horror flick starring Vincent Price.
(Originally posted on Channel Awesome on May 30, 2017)
Two of martial arts lore's greatest heroes team up against the Qing Dynasty in Heroes Two, the first film in Chang Cheh's famed shaolin cycle. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on April 28, 2017)
Jimmy Stewart is at his most charming in Harvey, a delightful little comedy about a man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit. (Originally posted on Channel Awesome on March 9, 2017)
Sir Francis Drake fights for queen and country in Seven Seas to Calais, another film that tries to recapture the magic of the Golden Age of swashbucklers. |
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