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SCAdian MOVIES! POST-PERIOD

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The SCA period is said to end around 1600 (or 1650, depending on who you talk to). However, there are many movies set after that period that mey still be of interest to SCAdians. There may be swordfights and battle scenes, or there may be concepts and attitudes that may reflect the society that the SCA is trying to recreate. Sometimes there may be a movie that has nothing of SCAdian interest in it more that a slapstick scene involving some suits of armor (Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, for instance). Since I want this list to be as complete as possible, I have included everything. The marking system indicates how much SCAdian interest there may be in a movie.

HOW TO USE THE MARKINGS:

! = a definite must-see for anyone with SCA related interests.

+ = good to see if you've already seen or if you can't find the must-sees.

% = either a weak movie with a SCA-related theme, or a good movie of limited SCA-related interest.

- = only for the most desparate completist.

I have reviewed a number of these movies on Amazon.com and Allwatchers.com. You can go to those individual reviews by clicking on the AMZ for Amazon and the ALW for Allwatchers.

To make the list more manageable, I have divided it into the following categories:

Post-Renaissance
Corsican Brothers
Zorro
Monte Cristo
Modern

• POST-RENAISSANCE
  • Adventures of Giacomo Casanova (Le Avventure di Giacomo Casanova, Les Aventures et les amours de Casanova, The Loves of Casanova, The Sins of Casanova Italy '54 Steno. Gabriele Ferzetti, Corinne Calvet, Irène Galter, Nadia Gray, Nerio Bernardi)
  • % Amadeus (Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Simon Callow)
  • Bonnie Prince Charlie (Silent '23 Charles Calvert. Adline Hayden Coffin, Gladys Cooper, Lewis Gilbert, A. B. Imeson, Benson Kleve, Hugh Miller, Ivor Novello, Sydney Seaward, Arthur Wontner)
  • Bonnie Prince Charlie ('48 Anthony Kimmins. David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell, Jack Hawkins, Morland Graham, Finlay Currie
  • Charge of the Black Lancers (Italy '61 Giacomo Gentilomo. Mel Ferrer, Yvonne Furneaux, Jean Claudio, Leticia Roman)
  • Charge of the Lancers ('54 William Castle. Paulette Goddard, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Richard Shipley, Karin Booth.
  • Charge of the Light Brigade ('36, Michael Curtiz. Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, David Niven, J. Carroll Naish
  • Charge of the Light Brigade ('68 Tony Richardson. David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard)
  • Dangerous Liasons 1960 ('59 Les Liasons Dangereuses)
  • + Dangerous Liasons ('88)
  • + The Duelists (Ridley Scott. Kieth Karradine, Harvey Keitel, Tom Conti) ALW
  • + Gettysburg (Martin Sheen, Tom Berenger, Jeff Daniels, Sam Elliot) ALW
  • + Glory (Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Carey Elwes) ALW
  • Valmont (Gerard Depardieu)
  • The Eagle
  • The Gallant Blade
  • The Golden Hawk
  • %Immortal Beloved ('94 Gary Oldman)
  • Invasion 1700 (Col ferro e col fuoco, Daggers of Blood, With Fire and Sword, Par le fer et par le feu Italy (1962) Fernando Cerchio. Jeanne Crain, John Drew Barrymore, Pierre Brice, Akim Tamiroff, Elena Zareschi, Gordon Mitchell, Raul Grassilli, Eleonora Vargas, Nerio Bernardi)
  • The Iron Glove
  • The King's Theif ('55 David Niven)
  • + The King's Whore ('90 Timothy Dalton)
  • The Last of the Mohicans (Silent,'20 Wallace Beery, Boris Karloff)
  • The Last of the Mohicans ('36 Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon)
  • % The Last of the Mohicans ('92 Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeline Stowe, Wes Studi, Colm Meany)
  • The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (Italy,'75 Michael Sarrazin, Usula Andress, Aldo Maccione)
  • % A Man Called Horse ('70 Richard Harris)
  • % The Man Who Would be King (Sean Connery, Michael Caine)
  • Mask of the Avenger ('51 John Derek, Anthony Quinn)
  • The Master of Ballantrae ('53 Errol Flynn)
  • The Master of Ballantrae('84 Michael York, John Gielgud, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Finola Hughes)
  • Meet the Baron ('33, Jimmy Durante, 3 Stooges)
  • % Nate and Hayes ('83 Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe)
  • Prisoner of Zenda ('37 Ronald Coleman, Madeline Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, Montagu Love)
  • Prisoner of Zenda ('52 Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Jane Greer, James Mason)
  • Prisoner of Zenda ('79 Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer)
  • + Red Badge of Courage ('51 Audie Murphy,Bill Maudlin)
  • + Red Badge of Courage (Richard Thomas)
  • The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel ('38 Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, James Mason)
  • + Rob Roy ('95 Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz)
  • Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue ('54 Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Michael Gough, Finlay Currie)
  • Sandokan the Great (Italy,'65 Steve Reeves, Genevieve Grad)
  • Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak (Sandokan contro il leopardo di Sarawak, Throne of Vengeance Italy,'64 Luigi Capuano. Ray Danton, Guy Madison, Franca Bettoja, Mario Petri)
  • Sandokan Fights Back (Sandokan alla riscossa Italy,'64 Luigi Capuano. Ray Danton, Guy Madison, Franca Bettoja, Mino Doro)
  • Scaramouche ('52 Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, Henry Wilcoxon)
  • The Scarlet Empress ('34 Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernell ('35 Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Joan Gardner)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernell ('82 Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian Mckellen)
  • Sea Devils ('53 Raoul Walsh. Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Maxwell Reed. Denis O'Dea, Michael Goodlife, Bryan Forbes, Jacques B. Brunius, Ivor Barnard, Arthur Wontner, Gerared Oury. Based on Victor Hugo novel, "The Toilers of the Sea")
  • % The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ('76 Nicol Williamson, Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Laurence Olivier, Joel Grey, Samantha Eggar)
  • The Slipper and the Rose ('76 Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven)
  • + Shaka Zulu (TV miniseries. Edward Fox, Christopher Lee)
  • + Start the Revolution Without Me ('70 Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Orson Welles)
  • % Sweet Liberty ('86 Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins, Lilian Gish)
  • The Swordsman ('48 Larry Parks, Ellen Drew, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan)
  • + War and Peace ('56 King Vidor. Mario Soldata. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, John Mills, Herbert Lom, Anita Ekberg)
  • + War and Peace (Soviet Union,'68 Sergei Baondarchuk. Ludmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tihonov)
  • + Waterloo (Italy-Soviet,'71 Sergei Bondarchuk. Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna, Dan O'Herlihy)
  • % Young Sherlock Holmes ('85 Speilberg, Barry Levinson. Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higginsn Susan Fleetwood, Freddie Jones)
  • + Zulu ('64 Cy Endfield. Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ula Jacobsson, Michael Caine, Nigel Green, James Booth)
  • + Zulu Dawn ('79 Douglas Hickox. Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward, John Mills, Nigel Davenport, Michael Jayson, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Lacey, Freddie Jones, Anna Calder-Marshall, Bob Hoskins)

• ZORRO
  • Don Q, Son of Zorro ('25 Douglas Fairbanks)
  • Ghost of Zorro ('49 Clayton Moore)
  • Mark of Zorro (Silent,'20 Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery)
  • Mark of Zorro ('40 Tyrone Power, Basil Rathbone)
  • Mark of Zorro ('74 Frank Langella, Ricardo Montalban)
  • ! Mask of Zorro ('98 Martin Campbell. Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stewart Wilson, Matthew Letscher)
  • The Shadow of Zorro (Italy,'62 Frank Latimore, Maria Luz Galicia)
  • The Sign of Zorro ('60 Lewis R. Foster, Guy Williams)
  • Zorro (Spain,'91 Joaquin Luis Romero Merchant. Frank Latimore, Mary Anderson)
  • % Zorro (Italy-France,'75 Duccio Tessari. Alain Delon, Stanley Baker, Ottavia Piccolo, Moustache)
  • Zorro's Black Whip (Serial. Linda Sterling)
  • Zorro's Fighting Legion (Serial)
  • Zorro Rides Again ('37 William Witney, John English. John Carroll, Helen Christian, Reed Howes, Duncan Renaldo, Noah Beery)
  • Zorro, the Gay Blade ('81 Peter Medak. George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman, Donovan Scott, James Booth)

• CORSICAN BROTHERS
  • The Bandits of Corsica (Return of the Corsican Brothers '53)
  • % Cheech and Chong's The Corsican Brothers ('84 Cheech and Chong)
  • The Corsican Brothers (Silent '98 George Albert Smith. Possibly the first film with double exposure)
  • The Corsican Brothers (Silent '12 Oscar Apfel, J. Searle Dawley. George Lessey)
  • The Corsican Brothers (Silent '15 King Baggot)
  • The Corsican Brothers (Silent '20 Colin Campbell, Louis J. Gasnier. Dustin Farnum)
  • + The Corsican Brothers ('41 Gregory Ratoff. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ruth Warrick, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, H. B. Warner, John Emery, Henry Wilcoxon, Gloria Holden)
  • The Corsican Brothers (TV '85 Ian Sharp. Trevor Eve, Geraldine Chaplin, Olivia Hussey, Simon Ward, Donald Pleasance)
  • The Corsican Brothers (Animated '89)
  • The Corsican Brothers Up to Date (Silent '15 Charles Hutchison. Will Browning, Edith Thornton)
  • The Corsican Sisters (Silent '15 Paul Hurst)
  • I Fratelli Corsi (The Corsican Brothers Italy '61 Anton Giulio Majano. Geoffrey Horne, Jean Servais, Gérard Barray, Nerio Bernardi, Emma Danieli, Alberto Farnese, Mario Feliciani)
  • The Making of 'The Corsican Brothers' (TV '84 William Riead. Rae Dawn Chong, Robbi Chong, Shelby Chong, Roy Dotrice, Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin, Ricky Marin, Edie McClurg)

• MONTE CRISTO
  • The Count of Monte Cristo Monte Cristo (Silent '12 Colin Campbell. Eugenie Besserer, Hobart Bosworth, Herbert Rawlinson, Tom Santschi)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (Silent '13 Joseph A. Golden, Edwin S. Porter. James O'Neill, Eugenie Besserer, Hobart Bosworth)
  • Monte Cristo (Silent '22 Emmett J. Flynn. John Gilbert, Estelle Taylor, Robert McKim, William V. Mong, Virginia Brown Faire, George Siegmann, Spottiswoode Aitken, Ralph Cloninger, Harry Lonsdale)
  • Monte-Cristo (Silent France '29 Jean Angelo, Pierre Batcheff, Lil Dagover, Marie Glory, Bernhard Goetzke, Germaine Kerjean, Ernest Maupain, Gaston Modot, Jean Toulout, )
  • The Count of Monte Cristo ('34 Rowland V. Lee. Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn, O.P. Heggie, Irene Hervey, Georgia Caine, Lawrence Grant)
  • Le Comte de Monte Cristo (2 parts: 1ère époque: Edmond Dantès & 2ère époque: Le châtiment. The Count of Monte Cristo France '43 Robert Vernay. Pierre Richard-Willm, Michèle Alfa, Aimé Clariond, Marcel Herrand, Ermete Zacconi, Alexandre Rignault, Henri Bosc, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Joffre)
  • El Conde de Montecristo (The Count of Monte Cristo Mexico '54 Chano Urueta. Arturo de Córdova)
  • El Conde de Montecristo (Mexico/Argentina '54 León Klimovsky. Jorge Mistral, Nelly Meden, Elina Colomer, Francisco López Silva, Santiago Gómez Cou, Nathán Pinzón)
  • Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo France '55 Robert Vernay. Jean Marais, Lia Amanda, Julien Bertheau, Jacques Castelot, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Roger Pigaut, Paolo Stoppa)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (TV '58 Sidney Lumet. Max Adrian, Ina Balin, Douglas Campbell, John Colicos, Colleen Dewhurst, Michael Ebert, Hurd Hatfield, Elizabeth Sellars, Torin Thatcher, George Voskovec)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo, The Story of Monte Cristo, The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo. France '61 Claude Autant-Lara. Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Franco Silva, Bernard Dhéran, Jean-Claude Michel, Jean Martinelli, Claudine CosterHenri Guisol, Marie Mergey, Yves Rénier, Alain Ferral, Roldano Lupi, Henri Vilbert)
  • Count of Monte Cristo (BBC TV '64 Alan Badel. 26 half-hour episodes)
  • + The Count of Monte Cristo ('75 David Greene. Richard Chamberlin, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan, Angelo Infanti, Harald Bromley, George Willing, Taryn Power) ALW
  • Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo France, TV mini-series '79 Denys de La Patellière. Jacques Weber, Roger Dumas, Jean-François Poron, Manuel Tejada, Carla Romanelli, Claude Brosset, Christiane Krüger, Diogo Dória, Marie Matile, Virginie Vidal, Henri Virlojeux)
  • Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo Franc, TV mini-series '98 Josée Dayan. Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Jean Rochefort, Pierre Arditi, Florence Darel, Christopher Thompson, Stanislas Merhar, Julie Depardieu, Hélène Vincent, Georges Moustaki)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo (2002 Kevin Reynolds. Guy Pearce, James Caviezel, Henry Cavill, Dagmara Dominczyk, Richard Harris)
  • Die Gräfin von Monte-Christo (Germany '32 Kurt Hartl. Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Forster, Gustaf Gründgens, Lucie Englisch, Ernst Dumcke, Theo Lingen, Oskar Sima, Mathias Wieman)
  • The Countess of Monte Cristo ('34 Karl Freund. Fay Wray, Paul Lukas, Reginald Owen, Patsy Kelly, Paul Page, John Sheehan)
  • The Countess of Monte Cristo ("A Musical Ice-Travaganza!" '48 Frederick De Cordova. Sonja Henie, Olga San Juan, Dorothy Hart, Michael Kirby, Arthur Treacher, Hugh French, Ransom M. Sherman)
  • A Modern Monte Cristo (Silent '17 Eugene Moore. Vincent Serrano, Helen Badgley, Thomas A. Curran, Gladys Dore, Boyd Marshall, H.M. Rhinehardt)
  • The Return of Monte Cristo ('46 Henry Levin. Louis Hayward, Barbara Britton, George Macready, Una O'Connor)
  • Le Secret de Monte-Cristo (The Secret of Monte Cristo France '48 Albert Valentin. René Wilmet, Edmond Ardisson, Pierre Brasseur, Robert Dalban, Marcelle Derrien, Pierre Larquey, Madeleine LeBeau, Charles Lemontier, Jacqueline Marbaut, Gilles Quéant, Georges Vitray)
  • + The Son of Monte Cristo ('40 Rowland V. Lee. Louis Hayward, Joan Bennet, George Sanders, Florence Bates, Montagu Love, Clayton Moore)
  • The Sword of Monte Cristo ('51 Maurice Geraghty. George Montgomery, Paula Corday, Betty Kroeger, William Conrad)
  • Sword of Venus (Island of Monte Cristo '53 Harold Daniels. Robert Clarke, Catherine McLeod, Dan O'Herlihy, William Schallert, Marjorie Stapp)
  • Treasure of Monte Cristo ('49 William A. Berke. Glenn Langan, Adele Jergens, Steve Brodie, Bobby Jordan, Sid Melton)
  • Treasure of Monte Cristo (The Secret of Monte Cristo '61 Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman. Rory Calhoun, Michael Balfour, Peter Arne, Gianna Maria Canale, Ian Hunter)
  • The Wife of Monte Cristo ('46 Edgar G Ulmer. John Loder, Lenore Aubert, Charles Dingel, Eva Gabor)
  • Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo (Le Révolté, Under the Sign of Monte-Cristo France '68 André Hunebelle. Paul Barge, Claude Jade, Anny Duperey, Anny Duperey, Paul Le Person, Paul Le Person, Michel Auclair, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean Saudray)
  • Uznik zamka If (Russia '88 Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich. Viktor AvilovYevgeni Dvorzhetsky, Aleksei Petrenko, Anna Samokhina, Mikhail Boyarsky, Aleksei Zharkov, Yana Poplavskaya, Igor Sklyar, Vladimir Steklov)

• MODERN
  • % The Aadams Family (Raul Julia,Angelica Houston, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya)
  • % Aadams Family Values (Raul Julia,Angelica Houston, Christina Ricci, Christopher Lloyd)
  • American Ninja (Michael Dudikoff)
    • 2: The Confrontation
    • 3: Blood Hunt
    • 4: The Annihilation
    • 5
  • - ...And God Spoke (the Making of...) (Soupy Sales, Lou Ferigno, Andy Dick)
  • % Blind Fury (Rutger Hauer, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Meg Foster)
  • % Bloodsport (Jean Claude Van Damme, Bolo Yeung, Forrest Whittaker, Ronald Gibb)
  • By the Sword
  • % The Challenge (Sword of the Ninja, Scott Glen, Toshiro Mifune)
  • + A Choice of Weapons (Trial by Combat, Dirty Knight's Work, Donald Pleasance, Berbara Hershey, Peter Cushing)
  • + Highlander ('86 Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery) ALW
  • % Highlander - the Final Dimension ('94 Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles)
  • The Hunted ('95 Christopher Lambert)
  • % Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ('84 Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw)
  • + Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ('89 Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliot, John Rhys-Davies)
  • + Iron and Silk ('90 Master Pan)
  • ! Knightriders ('81 George A. Romero. Ed Harris, Tom Savini, Stephen King. Inspired by an actual SCA event!) AMZ ALW
  • % Lair of the White Worm ('88 Ken Russell. Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant)
  • Land of the Minotaur (Minotaur, The Devil's Men,'76 Donald Pleasance, Peter Cushing)
  • Lost Continent ('68 Eric Porter)
  • % Mazes and Monsters (TV,'82 Tom Hanks)
  • Monsignor Quixote ('88 Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Ian Richardson)
  • % The Mouse that Roared ('59 Peter Sellers, Leo McKern)
  • % The Punisher ('89 Dolph Lundgren, Louis Gossett, Jr., Jeroen Krabbe, Kim Miyori)
  • + Raiders of the Lost Ark ('81 Steven Spielberg. Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Denholm Elliot, John Rhys-Davies)
  • + Ring of Steel ('94 David Frost. Robert Chapin, Joe Don Baker, Gary Kasper, Darlene Vogel, Carol Alt) ALW
  • Showdown in Little Tokyo ('91 Dolph Lundgren, Brandon Lee, Tia Carrere)
  • % Silent Movie ('86 Mel Brooks. M. B., Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Liza Minelli, Marcel Marceau)
  • % Streets of Fire (Walter Hill. Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Bill Paxton, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Ed Begley Jr., The Blasters. Music by Ry Cooder) AMZ ALW
  • % The Swordsman ('92 Michael Kennedy. Lorenzo Lamas, Claire Stansfield, Michael Champion, Nicholas Pasko, Raoul Truillo) AMZ ALW
  • % The Swordsman II - Gladiator Cop (Nick Rotundo. Lorenzo Lamas, Claire Stansfield, George Toulatos, Nicholas Pasko, Christopher Lee Clements, James Hong) AMZ ALW
  • % The Warriors ('79 Walter Hill. Michael Beck, James Remar, Thomas Waites, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Mercedes Ruehl)

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