 "Ty Seas" | 2009-05-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A8WZ4YFQB77HC |
| Power is in top form in this brisk, lushly colorful pirate picture. He's terrifically charming, which is odd as he plays kind of a drunken lout. But he's positively low-key compared to the rest of the cast who act up a storm. It's especially amusing to see the famously debonair George Sanders hamming it up as a bearded baddie. Maureen O'Hara is almost too convincingly haughty to root for her as Ty's romantic booty. But she's along for a great commentary track with Rudy Belmer. |
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 "Tyrone Power-The Perfect Pirate" | 2008-11-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: AJP2V7ZN59NQI |
| I remember as a child watching all the great old pirate movies with my Dad on Friday nights. Tyrone Power was always one of our favorites and The Black Swan is one movie that stood out in memory for me. It is a beautifully filmed and vastly entertaining film and one I just had to add to my "good ole days" section of my DVD library. If you love pirates-don't pass up on this treasure. |
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| "Classic Movie" | 2008-06-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A35BMPIJJFVKBK |
| I was so happy to receive this video and share it with my uncle of 90 years. We both love the old classics and I was so suprised to see this was one Tyrone Power movie he hadn't seen! Seemed to me he's see them all! LOL So many movies are hard to find and I want to thank Amazon.com for helping to find these older movies. You've made both of us very happy and your service is the best!! Keep up the good work! THANKS!! |
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| "Great movie but they messed with the technicolor" | 2008-05-14 |
| - Reviewed By carebie |
| I absolutely love this movie. I am a huge fan of old hollywood action packed extravagant movies. Great Pirate yarn, set in the caribbean, Captain Henry Morgan has become Governor in order to pursuade the other pirates to settle down now that England is no longer at war. Tyrone Powers, Maureen O'Hara, and George Saunders (always great), not to mention several other great actors in this movie. I would say this movie is great quality and while it is, its been restored, so it should be, but the restoration has striped some of the lovely technicolor away, the colors that I enjoyed watching as a kid are gone, they do have segment that shows you what the movie looked like before they changed it, they took out a lot of the red hues, so Maureen O'Hara's hair is not red, Tyrone (often shirtless) is pale instead of tanish, and the sun sets are not their brillant color, so you might have to adjust your TV color to watch, I have to do that on several movies that have been restored for DVD. It is still worth the purchase its a great movie. |
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| "Technicolor Treasure" | 2007-12-26 |
| - Reviewed By brittanialeigh |
| Why did they ever stop using technicolor film? Some of the best old movies (Gone With the Wind, Ten Commandments, Wizard of Oz) stand the test of time because of the exceptional color that made costumes, scenery, and people seem to leap off the screen. The Black Swan is a visual treat: lots of color and beauty, not only on handsome Tyrone Power and beautiful Maureen O'Hara, but also in ship-on-sea shots, and even interior shots. Even if the film's plot and acting bored you stiff (and it won't) it's beautiful just to look at. If you like swashbuckling films that are colorful and fun, The Princess & the Pirate, with Virginia Mayo and Bob Hope are great, too. This is a great movie to watch George Sanders as a campy villian (something he doesn't usually do; he usually plays the seriously bad bad guy)and Thomas Mitchell is likeable and interesting in just about anything. Wish they still made movies like this. Today's films try too hard, and still fall short. |
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| "Swashbuckling At It's Best!" | 2007-12-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2WNKPNUPHHA2U |
| Old fashioned thrills, with swords, knives and pirates. Handsome men in flamebouyant costumes, beautiful women in frilly lace and gowns of silk and satin! What more can you ask of a movie except georgeous ships and tropical isles. Well look no more, it's all right here! Romance, old movie style, where the man only gets the girl at the END of the show. What a novel idea! Loved every moment of it, and you will too. |
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