Rating: NR
Genre:
Adventure
Release Date: 07/11/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD2/DD1
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox
Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler
The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and heroine
Tyrone Power and
Maureen O'Hara taking turns being tied up and imprisoned throughout the film's brisk 85-minute running time. Very loosely adapted by
Ben Hecht and
Seton I. Miller from a novel by
Rafael Sabatini, the film casts
Power as rogueish, hot-tempered buccaneer Jamie Waring, who considers the day wasted when he hasn't sacked a Spanish galleon or plundered a rich coastal town. Jamie's partner in crime is pirate king Henry Morgan
Laird Cregar, an alliance that comes to an end when Morgan is appointed governor of Jamaica. Disgusted by this defection, Jamie considers joining the scurrilous Redbeard
George Sanders, but eventually decides to reform his ways when he falls in love with Margaret Denby
Maureen O'Hara, the gorgeous daughter of the former Jamaican governor Lord Denby
George Zucco. Before the final obligatory sail into the sunset, however, Margaret is kidnapped and manhandled on a seemingly hourly basis, while Jamie is subjected to even more abuse at the hands of pirates and officials alike.
Henry King handles the derring-do in
Black Swan with commendable sobriety, leaving the story's tongue-in-cheek elements in the capable hands of the cast and the screenwriters.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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A New Swashbuckler is Born.
Tyrone Power joins the ranks of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn as the big screen's newest swashbuckling hero as director Henry King brings an archetypal swashbuckling epic to life based on Rafael Sabatini's classic novel. Power stars as Jamie Waring, a reformed pirate, who is supposedly helping Jamaica's new governor, ex-pirate Capt. Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar) rid the Caribbean of pirates until he falls for the heavenly, hotheaded Lady Margaret (Maureen O'Hara) and they're both captured by the renegade pirate, Capt. Billy Leech a.k.a. Redbeard (George Sanders). The film won an Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography. Also starring Anthony Quinn, Thomas Mitchell, George Zucco, Edward Ashley, Fortunio Bonanova, Stuart Robertson, Charles McNaughton, Frederick Worlock, William Fung, Arthur Shields, and Charles Francis.
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