The Black Swan (1942)

- O Nickel Odeon tem uma reputação famosa e o Mac-Mahon é quase identificado com uma seita. A partir de quais critérios vocês escolhiam os filmes? - No Nickel, éramos menos sistemáticos do que no Mac-Mahon. Tínhamos apenas um critério: que esses filmes tivessem algum…

Bruno Andrade

Wheres the ballet? Wheres Natalie Portman? WHERE ARE THE LESBIANS?! Smh so disappointing tyrone power aint even hot

Eliza

They always say that certain film genres come and go depending on what audiences want to see. Back in the 1930's, 40's, and even the 1950's, Pirate films were regular releases from the major studios, and although as time went on the swashbucklers, just like the Westerns,…

Andy Summers 🤠

Bursting with colour and larger-than-life performances, The Black Swan feels like a piratical riff on Errol Flynn’s Adventures of Robin Hood. It is a rollicking, Technicolor yarn, replete with rapiers, romance and rowdy sea battles. Tyrone Power struts about as the rakish…

Richard

Release date: December 4, 1942 The story of pirates planning for retirement The Black Swan is from a novel by Rafael Sabatini, whose other novels were also turned into The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, and Scaramouche. The Oscar for best cinematography went to Leon Shamroy…

Scott Huston

High-seas adventure, courtesy of the year 1942. What I Liked: - The two leads. The handsome Tyrone Power plays the protagonist anti-hero Jamie, and the gorgeous Maureen O'Hara, playing the governor's daughter Lady Margaret, is the archetypical fair maiden. - The…

Matt J.

i wish, in my hearts of hearts, that i could say that this is a movie that utilises its gorgeous technicolor to produce something exciting (though i am by no means saying that those vistas alone can't give someone that warm and fuzzy feeling... which they certainly do for…

noma

Oh, mama! Truly terrifying to see the extremely nonconsensual kissing, physical violence against women, etc. here and ummm, still really love this film as a whole. Enjoying this is so very much against my personal principles and better judgement. Unfortunately I love Ty…

✨🥀 e m m é

I will dream of that white dress with golden sparkles tonight. It’s so heavenly Technicolor at its best! What a colorful and bright movie, sometimes it’s all that I need. And give that woman a sword, I’m sure she would win all the battles

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