Swashbuckler

1976

Action / Adventure / Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 2041 2K

pirate caribbean sea tyrant

Plot summary

A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Director

James Goldstone Photo
James Goldstone

Top cast

Geoffrey Holder Photo
Geoffrey Holder as Cudjo
Harry Basch Photo
Harry Basch as Banana Man
Anthony De Longis Photo
Anthony De Longis as Soldier in Bar
Peter Boyle Photo
Peter Boyle as Lord Durant
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827.87 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 1
1.59 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ragosaal 7 / 10

Critics Were Wrong With This One

Critics were hard on "Swashbuckler" in my Country too. However I've been watching films for 45 years now and there are some things I'm pretty sure on movies. As most things in life everything is just a matter of opinion and each one's own preferences and tastes. Critics are just movie fans -like any other one- that have the possibility of making their opinions known, but that's the only difference with us, and in fact I don't agree with them very often. "Swashbuckler" is one of those cases. Considering this film within it's genre -there's no other way to analyze a film- I found it most entertaining and enjoyable.The first point in favor of "Swashbuckler" is that the director, crew and actors didn't take it too seriously and they aimed to an action, romance, amusing and unpretentious pirate movie; and they succeeded in my opinion.Robert Shaw was no Errol Flynn and he didn't even try to be but he is convincing as pirate Captain Ned Lynch who joins a noble damsel in distress (Genevieve Bujold) to fight tyrannic Jamaica governor Durant played by Peter Boyle (he isn't Basil Rathbone and also doesn't pretend to be) who achieves a most original and colorful villain (his deadly sword training with more than one opponent at a time is most enjoyable and interesting). The rest of the cast that includes James Earl Jones, a funny Beau Bridges and Angelica Houston are a good support too.Director James Goldstone does a prolix job in beautiful Caribbean outdoor sceneries and keeps entertainment all along with very well achieved action scenes and sword play.All in all, if you enjoy pirate films this is one to see (the critics opinions notwithstanding).
Reviewed by traderviqz 8 / 10

remember what movies are for . . . . . . . ??

If one can simply recall that movies are to take us away, whether from or to is personally specific, then it would take a profoundly negative person to think poorly of any well made and well acted movie. This is such a flick, decently focused relative to plot, well chosen costuming and locations, great cinematography . . . what more can you ask? If you want a 'film', with all its highbrow silliness, it's true you might not wanna go there with this one, but jeez, does anyone who only goes to 'films' even tell anyone else they know that they're painfully pretentious? This one has no pretensions, and since when is Genevieve in any state of undress a minus? Good entertainment, which is what I want when i spend money on a movie, and Swashbuckler delivers with aplomb.JGS
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