Forty-four years after The Duellists, Ridley Scott draws swords again with his star-studded swashbuckler The Last Duel. But which one-on-one fight film is the champion? Let mortal combat begin …
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The Adventures of Robin Hood was made with sublime
innocence and breathtaking artistry, at a time when its simple values rang
true. In these cynical days when swashbucklers cannot be presented without an
ironic subtext, this great 1938 film exists in an eternal summer of bravery and
romance. We require no Freudian subtext, no revisionist analysis; it is enough
that Robin wants to rob the rich, pay the poor and defend the Saxons not
against all Normans, only the bad ones: It s injustice I hate, not the
Normans.
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The movie involved a couple of firsts: The first Warner Bros.
film shot in the three-strip Technicolor process, and the first of 12 times