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Just browsing your "Banners" thread and saw Kim Cattrall. I'll never forget her performance in "Return of the Musketeers."
Although she wore a more bulky costume than Gina L, her swordplay was fantastic. I've always hoped her character would survive the desperate dive, and she'd again be-devil the Musketeers.
Please add her film to THE LIST.
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I have that movie on VHS, but the tape is copy-protected and I can't transfer it to DVD. I'm surprised it wasn't released on DVD along with the first two Richard Lester Musketeer movies last year. One day I'll rent a camcorder and hopefully post a few clips.
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As to the allowed ascribed list.
I somehow suppose, we should "Say" something more about the "Silents"?
First, very first, in 1900 there was the: "Le Dueld'Hamlet" with Sarah Bernhardt. This 3+Min, scene showing the set serious sword duel, with Sarah Bernhardt basically being Hamlet.
This was the first film with a real famous Star! It was the first scene shot from Shakespeare. It initially introduced the first sychronized sound with speaking dialogue and with the sounds of the swords striking each other in select sequence (Sound cylinder is since somehow lost). Sarah salently shows off her famous fine dancing footwork in the fencing scene. It is also the last moving picture shot of her before she suffered her serious injury (1905) which purportedly prevented her from physically performing as she was surely supposedly known to be supremely capable.
Consider this curious clip from 1900. It is instructively from first foundartions of film, and it is immensly important to takeaway that from the beginnings of film, we find furious female swashbuckling! However, I hasten to harange that it transpires that the 19th century stage is fortunately filled with a fullscale foretaste of females pretending to be male--young males mainly. Thus, the take is that in Shakespeare's time boys played girls and women, but in the 19th century the compulsive case was really reliantly reversed and relagated to the point that the norm was now noted for females to protray young males. This is one more reason why the Victorian stage had a professed profussion of females playing or protraying males, and we see this same sort of thing taken in the early silents.
Thus, the trite thing is that there were several other Shakespere scenes with several such women/girls with swords. The next famous film of Hamlet was with the willfully wierd Asta Nilsson in 1920, she is Hamlet, but in this heavy-handed version, Hamlet is actually a girl, who greviously ganers the general guise of a boy because of the big burdens of the State, and the main major necesity to have a male heir.
There is also a Turkish film of this same form with Fatima Girik in 1977: "The Female Hamlet", AKA: "Angel Of Vengence", "Infikammelegi". This terrible Turkish source surely reminds me that this thread into Trukish films may supply a series of swordwielding sirens. Turkish films from the 1960's and 70's are supposedly set with a pronounced profuse profussion of sexy females situated with swords.
I could go on with the obvious obvert theme of Shakespere and supposed swashbuckling scenes or sets showing Shakespeare's several female swordwielding selections (As you like it; Twelveth Night), but I will simply stay or speak to the noisy Silents for now?
I have seen that the production ""When Knights Were Bold" (1908) is a direct derivation of "When Knighthood Was In Flower", by Biograph, befittingly, with D. W Griffith writing the screen play, but he became banially upset that the Director did not directly listen to him, and he forlornly left to find work with other famous film firms.
The 1898 book, "When Knighthood Was in Flower" was written by Charles Major who is actually Edwin Caskoden. The swashbucklingly sensational 1907 stage play possessed the famous sword scene with Mary Tudor taking a sword to the tavern to turn their taunts to her advantage. Surely, this famous scene must have been in D. W. Griffith's screenplay? This scene was the centerpiece of Marion Davies' same swashbuckling scene in the 1923 production.
There was the troubbling thinking that really the real reason why Marion Davies was seemingly shown in swashbuckling scenes was that William Randolph Hurst liked or loved to licentiously see Miss Davies deploy or demonstrate her deeds in male or boyish clothes because this was his supposed sort of salacious fettish?
As we will warrant, Miss Davies was demonstratably detailed in a series of produced producations where she played dress-up as young males. There was the "Beverly of Graustark" (1926), were she played a cousin of a Prince relegated into a rather Ruturian Romance sort of silent. The set-up is that, supposedly, after an injury to the Prince, her cousin, she is invariably instructed to solemnly fill-in for him, since she shockingly looks just like him. In the film, we fittingly find she is forced to fence a foe of her cousin's, and she wears a sword at almost all times.
There was supposedly the showing of Selig-Polyscope production of 1906, "The Female Highwayman" (G. M. Anderson Directed). This might be a modern mystery crime movie, but it is invariably possible that impressions or indications that this film supposedly involves a female highwayman? She is described as being a daredevil, dashing, and daring with her deeds, but the denouement of her capture is decidedly denounced as not befitting or being a match to magisterially fit the rest of the fabulous film.
Then there was the 1915 film, "Hearts and the Highway", which is based on a true story about a young lady who becomes a highwayman in order to somehow steal the secret execution orders set for her father's fatal fate. Miss Lilian Walker played or protrayed the purported young lady highwayman. She supposedly used swords and pistols in particular performance of her purported deed.
There was the thrilling 1917 film: Peggy, The Will-O' The Wisp" (AKA: Will-O' The Wisp), were a young lady (Mabel Taliaferro) becomes a mysterious masked Highwayman to help the hopeless Irish farmers found on her father's lands together with those pesantry of her Father's fellow Anglo-Irish nobility. This favored story fabulously mixes fables folktales with fortunate romantic outlines.
After an allotted time, of sorts, she finds that soldiers are sorely set to see if they can capture or comfortably kill the highwayman heroically helping the pesants. There is one particular pompus pomposity who is especially entirely egregious toward the Irish pesantry. Pleasing to please, she starts showing him some sharp swordplay as the "Wisp" to wistfully weaken his worldly worth.
Somehow, she suddenly and surprisingly meets the singular officer in complete command and they marvelously or magically manage to marry. Then the prime pompus prospective problem person is found professly dead with the particular pistol of her husband's possession placed near the body. So, she suddenly sets out, as the Wisp, to somehow sharpen the memories of the witnesses, and she superbly swashbucklingly finds out that the corrupt killer is his remorselessly rude relative who relished and really wants his real real-estates. Thus, the Wisp wistfully warrants her husbands honest innocence.
In something of a similar sort of supposed vein, I vainly or verily recall, "Call of the Road" (1920) with Lady Rowena (Phyllis Shannon) resolutely replaying a somewhat similar sort of swashbuckling role? However, I hasten to honestly add that the Highwayman who lastly or lustily lures her to love the "Road" is Victor McLaglen. In 1933, Victor McLaglen again valiantly manages to play a highwayman, or this time to be **** Turpin which was warily warranted as sort of a sound remake of the 1925 **** Turpin with Tom Mix (Kathleen Myers manages to be Mix's make-believe male highwayman follower).
In these produced productions, we perceive that the Highwayman takes in the troubled young lady to prevent her from a forced foul marriage. Actually, the true story of **** Turpin tells us that the, supposed, surprising suspicion was that **** Turpin was really reliably riding with a girl in his forlorn final flings. The girl is delicately described and detailed as genuninely wearing a generally green riding jacket and high headed hat. Thus, the thinking is that this is somewhat surely expected to include a swashbuckling girl highwayman with Turpin in his last rides--or almost any assorted highwayman?
Then there was the swordplay shown in a Spanish film of 1919: "Spitfire of Seville", the famous Hedda Nova nobily fights a fabled duel in dramatic disguise detailed as a male swordsman.
There was the 1916 film: "Daughter of The Don", which we see is warrantedly based on basically a true tale. Set during the 1848 battle between the Californians and the U.S. forces with a young daughter of one of the Dons (large legal landholders) she dramatically disguised herself as a male and made her way with sword and pistols to the battle.
This supposed swashbucklling story is somewhat interesting since it predates Zorro (1920), and it seems to have similar or some themes that indicate that swashbuckling sorts of tales predate this film possibly questioning its proferred primacy on the pattern?
One overt ostenciable question? Do you consider or conceivably count women who wear swords or simply somehow use them?
Do I deign to dare count the many matadors who are not male? Several Spanish and other such Latin-American films, we wager or warrant to find a few females using swords in the bull-ring. They do not, nor do we find that they necessarily firmly fence, but they take up and surely use the sword so selectively?
many more movies and TV tales to consider, but I must leave for now?
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Another one from your Banners: Princess Fantaghiro aka The Cave of the Golden Rose - Allessandra Martines.
Fantaghiro's sisters did dress up in amrour in one segment - one was unhorsed by a tree branch.
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Mata Hari w/Sylvia Kristal
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I should solemnly say someting about an astounding fortunately famous film that I have never seen in 3-D. Note my call-sign--foster3D!
I am astonished that nary none has notioned that "Son of Sinbad" with Dale Robertson and Vincent Price was produced by Howard Hughes, and as a rye result rally was regaled by its rare assortment of a gob of girls with gauze. Ostenicably, one of the obligatory babes with a blade was the beautiful" Kim Novak". The story salaciously starts with the son of Sinbad and his sidekick--Vincent Price. After some swordplay and some highlighted highhanded humour by Price, we find a flock of females who are the dreaded daughters of the fabeled fierce fourty thieves--all the sons were supposedly slain and they did not think the triffling daughters were such a threat.
Then there is the "Rosen Kavalier" where we will find "Octavian" is overtly ordinarily a found to be a full female. She has a scene where she is in a sword fight. Most importantly, every measly movie make or version manages to officially or offhandedly produces Octavian as being played by a female actress.
There is a titanic terrific final firey flaming scene, much more bows than measly swords, but still or steel the scene and the film suggests some salient shots to survey?
Then, there is the Dr. Who series with, we warrant, the episodes engagingly entertained as "Phantasmagoria" (Julia Dalkin) where we winsomely find Hannah Fry feloniously playing the or protraying the plainly famous highwayman: "Major Billy Lovemore", sounds suspiciously so much like an inspired ingenious Ian Fleming fluttering funny name jesting jocular joke for his female characters from James Bond.
Then, I think the "Viking" 1967, with Carita as the Queen. Oddly, Vikings are not variously or validly to be found! This is a tale about Queen Boudica, and we see some swordplay by the females found in this film. Notiably, I will necessarily note: Ms. Adrienne Corri. She starred in several TV swashbucklers from the fifties: Sword of Freedom; "The Highwayman" with Louis Hayward, but this trusty themed TV film was only made into a potential Pilot, pity it was not picked-up.
However, the consistent case is that we critially note her select swordplay seen in the film, and we surely supect that she was stated to supply some swordplay in the series "The Highwayman" with the heroic looking Louis Hayward?
I should selct to make memorable mention of Cartouche with Claudia Cardinale, but its British title was benefittingly: "Swords of Blood" (1962). She plays or perfectly protrays "Venus" the valiant very lovely follower of Jean Paul Belmondo. I have seen some stills of her with a sword, but I do not ultimatley know if she uses or used it?
Also, I will manage to mention Moonraker;in America AKA: Blood on the Sword (1958) with George Baker and Sylvia Syms. This first rate film follows George Baker as being a noble masked avenger highwayman who tries to help the monarchy/royalists by rigorously righting wrongs. Sylvia Syms seems to be a pro-Parilamentarian, who is professed to positively marry a particular priime Parilamentarian. I have seen a still shot where she is supposedly dressed up just like him in his highwayman's costume? I did not recall this scene in the American version I saw as a child, but it may have been cut from the American version? Or it may have been cut from all the versions?
Likewise I literally have seen Rhonda Fleming with a foil found on her swordbelt in Frank Yerby's: "Golden Hawk", and we will willfully find Miss Fleming's character in the book was surely swordwielding and swahabuckling with a sword in several scenes. I wistfully wonder or wantonly willfully consider if these scenes where she, Miss Fleming, is with a sword were somehow sliced out of the final film? In the book, her character's swashbucling swordplay were particularily prime plot drivers.
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I hasten to harrangue and honestly hesitate to make minute mention, but I have not readily read or reviewed too much here assidiously about any assorted Indian films?
So, I will assertively and assuredly add a bit about" Amar Jyoti--the famous film following the fabled female Pirate: Queen Saydamini. This was the first Indian film to be featured and shown in a foreign film featival--Venetian film festival in 1936. It supposedly starred the surely famous female actress, Duraya Khole.
Then there was "Fearness Nadia", who was we find born as Mary Evans in Perth Australia in 1908. her Father was British and her Mother was mostly or mainly Greek. She made a series of swashbuckling sorts of films that followed the familiar theme of the female Film Serials seen in the States in the teens and twenties. She is most famous for her swashbuckling role as "HUnter Wali" (hunting woman). She is soemtimes said to the the "Sultana of Stunts". Again, it appears to be just like the superb set of silent female stars seen in the stunt filled serials (Ruth Roland and Pearl White, who were we find usually termeed: Queen of the stunts!)!
I should also somehow say or marginally make mention of Elizabeth Bregner, who performed, played, and produced: "Dona Juana", where she is waywardly warranted as being a female Don Juan, who displays and desperately duels. She is best known for her role in: As You Like It" with Sir Laurence Olivier where we will find that she selectively is seen in male attire of the Shakespearian era. She is also seen in male attire with sword in the "Catherine the Great".
Justly, I jest to just place Joan Collins in the jumble. She played "Black Bess", a boisterous brassy highwaywoman in the "Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976). She has a scene with a sword and she is fiendishly fighting a passenger she has just held-up and robbed. She is also seen from this salacious sceen in the TV film: "These Old Broads", which we will find use this film to furnish a funnnel for her fictious career for the character she protrays.
Must leave, but I will be back. I tried to edit the first fo this series, but after I added all the points, the thing was too long and I lost it all! So, I started to add to the first and followed it up with these additional ones.
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Sylvia Syms - yes. First time I saw her that I knew her name was in "Amazons of Rome." It does seem that she specialized in that sort of role.
Recall her being caught and dragged from her horse by Louis Jourdan.
Perhaps Foster3D can add other sword-wielding roles to her credit.
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Not too certain, but someone mentioned Nyree Dawn Porter in the tv series "The Protectors." It's not on the list but should be.
And from "Dynasty" series (or was it the spin-off "The Colbys?"), Tracy Scoggins and Stephanie Beacham.
Taps me out for the moment.
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A few additions to Foster3D' most recent postings:
"Then, there is the Dr. Who series with, we warrant, the episodes engagingly entertained as "Phantasmagoria" (Julia Dalkin) where we winsomely find Hannah Fry feloniously playing the or protraying the plainly famous highwayman: "Major Billy Lovemore", sounds suspiciously so much like an inspired ingenious Ian Fleming fluttering funny name jesting jocular joke for his female characters from James Bond."
"Phantasmagoria" was an audio-only episode of the series, one of dozens of "Doctor Who" audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions for the BBC. A few of them were recently broadcast on BBC Radio.
That said, there was one very brief F/M swordfight in "Battlefield", an episode from the final season of the original "Doctor Who" television series, with Angela Bruce in army fatigues taking on a knight from another dimension.
"I should selct to make memorable mention of Cartouche with Claudia Cardinale, but its British title was benefittingly: "Swords of Blood" (1962). She plays or perfectly protrays "Venus" the valiant very lovely follower of Jean Paul Belmondo. I have seen some stills of her with a sword, but I do not ultimatley know if she uses or used it?"
To my recollection, she only used a pistol in that movie. A sword would have been great, though.
"Likewise I literally have seen Rhonda Fleming with a foil found on her swordbelt in Frank Yerby's: "Golden Hawk", and we will willfully find Miss Fleming's character in the book was surely swordwielding and swahabuckling with a sword in several scenes. I wistfully wonder or wantonly willfully consider if these scenes where she, Miss Fleming, is with a sword were somehow sliced out of the final film? In the book, her character's swashbucling swordplay were particularily prime plot drivers."
She wears a sword in the movie version, but according to someone in the Requests forum, Fleming doesn't actually get to swordfight in the film version.
http://com2.runboard.com/bswordswomen.f1.t8962
Nice photo of Fleming.
"Son of Sinbad" looks promising - Turner Classic Movies has a trailer on their website, and you can order it on VHS from Amazon.
http://www.tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=3180
http://www.amazon.com/Son-of-Sinbad/dp/B000ETU5OS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-4777582-0576046?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1177642201&sr=1-1
Also check out this article from SFGate.com:
While working for Howard Hughes at RKO in the 1950s, (Vincent) Price says, a flunky gave him the script for "Son of Sinbad" and asked whether he liked it. "I think it's the worst script I ever read," Price told him, to which the guy replied, "It is, isn't it?" When Price asked if the studio planned to fix it, he was told, "Well, no. Hughes has placed 250 girls under contract and he has to put them all to work."
Price decided to appear in the movie anyway, God Bless him. 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/31/DDGCNOUF6A1.DTL&type=movies
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"Britcanuck",
Howard Hughes had a horrid reknowned rally remonstrative randy reputation for basically bringing a bunch or beavy of beauties into all his finely finished films.
I was warily wagering that do you decidedly consider or consign cutting instruments of about 14 inches to somehow said to be swords?
This very vexing valid point is positively potentially profound. Just judging juvenile Judy Geeson in "Berserk" (1957) who ultimately undertakes and uniformly uses an utterly ultimate knife or somewhat simple short sword to sort of slay some members of her creepy Mother's (Joan Crawford) traveling circus. I have seen shorts of her stridently seeking to cut or stab a potential or prospective person from this fairly funky film, with Ty Hardin and Diana Dors.
There was also the bashfully beautiful Barbara Windsor, whom we find is feloniously flirtingly and fleeing with **** Turpin from the comical and completely corny "Carry on ****" film (1974). This time she truly finds herself as Reverend Flasher's (Who is secretly **** Turpin) favorite fecund housemaid, hench person, and fellow highwayman in complete criminal crime.
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