Now available from Applause Books: Cinema of Swords, a popular guide to 400+ movies about Knights, Pirates, Samurai, and Vikings (and Barbarians, Musketeers, Gladiators, and Outlaw Heroes) from the Silent Era through The Princess Bride!
Cinema of Swords Weekly Update
Beyond the book, all-new Cinema of Swords reviews, covering the ‘90s to now, are published weekly at Ellsworth’s Cinema of Swords Substack site. Check out our Cinema of Swords page on this website, or click on the link below to go directly to the weekly Substack.
Listed below: early Cinema of Swords reviews, samples of the kind of coverage you’ll find in the book.
A
- Adventures of Don Juan
- Adventures of Long John Silver (Sole Season)
- Adventures of Quentin Durward (aka Quentin Durward)
- Adventures of Robin Hood
- Adventures of Robin Hood: Season One
- Adventures of Sir Lancelot (Sole Season)
- Alexander Nevsky
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
- Arabian Nights
- At Sword’s Point
B
C
M
P
R
S
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
- Samurai Vendetta aka Hakuoki
- Scaramouche (1923)
- Scaramouche (1952)
- Scarlet Pimpernel
- Sea Hawk (1924)
- Sea Hawk (1940)
- Seven Samurai
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger 1977
- Sinbad the Sailor
- Son of Ali Baba
- Son of Monte Cristo
- Spanish Main
- Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
- Swordsman
T
- The Return of the Musketeers
- The Warriors (UK: The Dark Avenger)
- The Warriors (UK: The Dark Avenger)
- Thief of Bagdad (1924)
- Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Thousand and One Nights
- Three Musketeers (1916)
- Three Musketeers (1921)
- Three Musketeers (1939)
- Three Musketeers (1948)
- Three Musketeers (1950)
- Throne of Blood
- Treasure Island (1934)
- Treasure Island (1950)