Showing posts with label Basil Rathbone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basil Rathbone. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Captain Blood (1935)

This is another great picture from before WW2. It is an entertaining story of civil war, slavery, piracy, and patriotism that stars Errol Flynn (1909-1959) as Captain Peter Blood, Olivia de Havilland (b. 1916) as the girl (she was 19 at the time), and Basil Rathbone (1892-1967) as an incidental badguy (I've provided their swordfight). Apparently this was a sea-faring rival to "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) as they were in theaters at the same time.


Friday, April 11, 2008

Two Great Swordfights with Basil Rathbone!

One of the great actors of the early period of cinema. He (1892-1967) was born in South Africa and died in New York City. Here he plays two villains and goes up against some serious heroes, Robin Hood (played by Errol Flynn) and Zorro (played by Tyrone Power). Too bad for him. I first saw these classic 'pictures'* ["The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) and "The Mark of Zorro" (1940)] when I was real young and have loved them ever since.
* That's what my grandmother (b. 1918) calls movies.