Clear some space on the DVR - Monday night's Turner Classic Movies schedule, titled, "Sword Play," features five excellent swashbucklers: Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro, Errol Flynn in The Adventures of Don Juan, Jose Ferrer - in a rare Oscar-winning cape-and-sword performance! - in Cyrano de Bergerac, Raiders of the Seven Seas, and Cornel Wilde and Maureen O'Hara - as the daughter of Athos! - in At Sword's Point.
Check your local listings for times, as always - and seriously, isn't it well past time for you to delete Dungeons & Dragons: Book of Vile Darkness?
I tried to watch that D&D movie...opening credits were so bad & overwrought I didn't even make it to the movie proper!
ReplyDeleteI think I saw about three minutes while channel surfing.
DeleteThanks for the heads up. I saw that Don Juan was playing, but missed the other films. Now if only I had a DVR...
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DeleteWon't be able to catch these tonight, but I did introduce my spawn to The Crimson Pirate on TCM yesterday morning. Verdict both the 8 year old and the 2 year old was thumbs up!
ReplyDeleteI was eight years old when I saw Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers - and you see how I turned out!
DeleteWatching At Sword's Point now... thanks for the tip!
ReplyDeleteI've heard it said that Maureen O'Hara was the best female stage fencer in Hollywood in her day.
DeleteAt least the best looking!
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