Greatest Movie Sword Fights

[LibraryPrincess]

The Duelist was a Great Movie, one of Ridley Scotts very First Films.  It was Choreographed, By the way, by the same guy who did Richard Lesters 3 Musketeers, Dangerous Beauty, Rob Roy And the Count of Monte Christo.  He has also done hundreds of other films.

His name escapes me at the moment.  Any Help??  He may have even done Princess Bride.  Or was that Bob Anderson???

Princess Bride was Bob Anderson. Don't know the name you're looking for, and I hadn't even realized all those movies were the same choreographer! Cool beans.

William Hobbs


So, essentially, we all enjoy the movie fights that Bob Anderson, William Hobbs, Huan-Chiu Ku (and also Nick Gillard, depending on your feelings about Star Wars) were in charge of?

[VIII]

Oh, the down-and-dirty street fighting in the early parts of "Flesh + Blood" by Paul Verhoeven with Rutger Hauer and Brion James (both from "Blade Runner") and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson.

The later fights... not so much.

[BubbleWright]

The Mark of Zorro (1940) with Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone has been mentioned in this thread a number of times. Just caught this on TCM. I don't know anything about fencing/sword fighting (theatrical or period correct) but I was was astounded by the speed of the final sword fight. It might be interesting to figure out how many times the blades crossed each other versus the time of the fight.

[BLAKDUKE]

You should have stayed up a little longer(if you could) and you would have seen 2 more movies as good if not better, Adventures of Don Juan, and Cyrano DeBergerac.