Word: swordplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince also had villainous intrigues, swashbuckling swordplay, brawls on bridges and effective vignettes of a dark, cruel 16th century England, e.g., a weepy woman waiting in a cell to hang for stealing a yard of yarn; a bandaged old man who lost his ears for criticizing the Lord Chancellor; and the prince's whipping boy, hardly bigger than the Great Seal used by the pauper to crack nuts in the palace. But the play's most memorable image was its gentlest: a lovely little girl (Patty Duke, 8) finding the tattered prince-by then the king-asleep...
Kilty's only error is his staging of Cyrano's improvised ballade duel. But then I have never seen this scene done correctly outside of France. This is supposed to be a feat to epater les bourgeois. And the feat lies neither in expert swordplay nor in improvising a poem about it, but rather in doing both simultaneously. The duelling should be done strictly in time with the flowing cadences of the verse. But here there are so many pauses between phrases and lines that the stunning effect of the tour de force is lost; the tongue...
...came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...
...others, and probably did not think of himself as a novelist. But he knew all the tricks of the trade, and in his hands the historical was surefire. His plots are as tight and well woven as good wicker. The costumes fit, love and virtue always triumph, and the swordplay is the most expert, the flashiest since The Three Musketeers...
...picture is fast on swordplay, heavy on overplay and light on screenplay. It begins with Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd), late of the Irish wars, winning an audience with the Queen; he wants to take three ships to the New World there to work for the greater glory of the 'British Empah." But the weary pan-amorous Elizabeth, who lost Errol Flynn back in the first film, likes the cut of Raleigh's jib- and his beard too. He is blunt, charming, gay, adventurous and never forgets to throw his cloak over mud puddles. He accepts...