Hammer's Swashbucklers
Over the years, I've seen SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST, A CHALLENGE FOR ROBIN HOOD, and I'd even allow "swashbuckler" to be broad enough to include peroid adventures like CAPTAIN CLEGG (even if swordplay...
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cjh5801 wrote: What really impresses me about the Hammer pirate movies is a small company like that actually building (and burning) their own pirate ship.According to the review over at Teleport City,...
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SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST is coming out in a couple of days from Sony, along with Cornell Wilde, John Derek and Jon Hall takes on the legend. Titles are sold separately.
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Watched Siege of the Saxons this morning. While not a Hammer film (it was one of Charles Schneer's non-Harryhausen pictures) it was shot at Bray and sure looks like one of Hammer's economy...
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I haven't seen SIEGE OF THE SAXONS in ages. It used to show up on TV when I was a kid, along with Kirk Douglas' THE VIKINGS. How well does SIEGE hold up these days?
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http://monsterkidclassich...classic-adventure-novels I find it interesting that Hammer handled some of the "classic" monsters (vampire e.g. Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein's Monster) but other than Doctor...
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Richard Lester's musketeer movies with Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch and Christopher Lee are probably as close to a Hammer take on the tales of Alexandre Dumas as we could have hoped for, but I can't see...
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Of the Hammer's and seeing it's been included in with the Swashbucklers. Night Creatures is my Favourite, even though I always think of it as a trio with The Reptile, And Plague of the Zombies. It...
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I would have loved to seen Clegg come back, especially since Disney's hopes for doing additional Syn adventures were never realized. (I love the novels.)
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I don't know where the teleport guy gets his information about a blacklisted director on DEVIL-SHIP. Could be... but I don't remember ever reading or hearing anything of the kind. On X-THE UNKNOWN 10...
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cjh5801 wrote:What really impresses me about the Hammer pirate movies is a small company like that actually building (and burning) their own pirate ship. According to the review over at Teleport City,...
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Regarding previously established adventure heroes Hammer handled: Hammer did one film with Simon Templar and of course a Sherlock Holmes film. They also handled Dick Barton, which started as a radio...
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Natasha Pyne, Suzan Farmer and Annette Whiteley on the set of the Hammer Swashbuckler film The Devil-Ship Pirates.
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frankenstein31 wrote:Of the Hammer's and seeing it's been included in with the Swashbucklers. Night Creatures is my Favourite, even though I always think of it as a trio with The Reptile, And Plague...
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