And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Rathbone could have fenced professionally. He apparently trained Danny Kaye for a movie they filmed together and later said that Kaye had surpassed him in skills.
Anne, you're a bitch. Rathbone trained professionally for the English stage, they were required to study fencing and ballet. He was a much better fencer than any of the actors in the starring roles that he was required to lose to.
search "Giorgio Thomaselli, duel", and "Aldo Nadi" the same. Thomaselli had a fencing academy a block away when I first moved to NYC. Seek fotos of him, he was a very distinguished looking man.
You are correct. The second-best sword fight on film to that point in time. (The climactic duel in The Adventures of Robin Hood was the best.) Number Three was in Captain Blood.
Rathbone lost all three. He really was the Darth Vader of his day, before he landed the Sherlock Holmes series.
Rathbone could have fenced professionally. He apparently trained Danny Kaye for a movie they filmed together and later said that Kaye had surpassed him in skills.
ReplyDeleteAnne, you're a bitch.
DeleteRathbone trained professionally for the English stage, they were required to study fencing and ballet.
He was a much better fencer than any of the actors in the starring roles that he was required to lose to.
Then there's the fact that Basil Rathbone had one of the greatest names in British thespian history.
DeleteAnd yes, Anne is a B-Word, who couldn't hold a candle to the one Tyrone Power sliced in half.
No. Just a short gif isn't good enough. You have to watch the whole scene. Great fencing.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2smJxBL6I
That IS a great scene.
DeleteThere certainly was something special about Tyrone Power, wasn't there?
“Señor” not “Monsieur” - it’s Zorro!
ReplyDeleteIs that Captain Kangaroo in the background. Sure looks like Mr. Greenjeans is going to put an ass piercing lesson on the gay guy.
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search "Giorgio Thomaselli, duel", and "Aldo Nadi" the same. Thomaselli had a fencing academy a block away when I first moved to NYC. Seek fotos of him, he was a very distinguished looking man.
ReplyDeleteMy fencing master was Ed Richards, American 3 weapon champion and taught fencing at the Air Force Academy. A true gentleman.
DeleteI think thats Tyrone Power taking on Basil in the mark of Zorro.
ReplyDeleteKlaus
You are correct.
DeleteThe second-best sword fight on film to that point in time.
(The climactic duel in The Adventures of Robin Hood was the best.)
Number Three was in Captain Blood.
Rathbone lost all three.
He really was the Darth Vader of his day, before he landed the Sherlock Holmes series.