Word: swordsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...17th century Shrike (left) is a much later, secular offshoot of Zen drawing. With the swift and eager precision of a swordsman, the artist evoked all autumn in a fierce little bird perched atop a dead branch. Looking into their catalogues, gallerygoers noted without great surprise that Miyamoto Niten was in fact a samurai as famed for his swordsmanship as for his brushwork...
...different versions make up a movie-like sequence of St. Matthew's assassination* by a hulking swordsman. In the first, the saint is on his feet, his hand raised against the sword. In the second (though his body does not appear), the position of the saint's head shows him kneeling or falling. In the version the world knows, St. Matthew lies sprawled on the ground, while the swordsman, straddling his body, prepares for the coup...
...Sabatini's costume-adventure yarn of pre-revolutionary France, combines spirited swordplay with a somewhat sluggish screenplay. Scaramouche (Stewart Granger) is an aristocrat who is bent on avenging the murder of his friend by malevolent Monarchist Mel Ferrer. Not only does Granger prove more than worthy of Master Swordsman Ferrer's steel; he also proves to be quite a gay blade by hiding out from the authorities with a troupe of traveling players. By the fadeout, Granger has found that Ferrer is really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist of plot, that beauteous Janet Leigh...
Cyrano de Bergerac. Oscar-Winner Jose Ferrer plays Rostand's poet-swordsman with wit, dash and eloquence (TIME...
Cyrano de Bergerac. Oscar-Winner Jose Ferrer plays Rostand's poet-swordsman with wit, dash and eloquence (TIME...