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“What person who loves the English language does not like the word ‘swashbuckling’?” This is what I asked my wife as we waited for the opening act of the Indiana Repertory Theatre production of The ...

From “The Black Pirate” of innocent ’20s to “The Crimson Pirate” of the sophisticated ’50s, the dashing, dueling swashbucklers of the sea cavorted showily on the silver screen. Cecil B. DeMille, lord ...

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” The first line from Rafael Sabatini’s novel “Scaramouche” is as good a definition of the spirit of swashbucklers as we’re ever ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

Dynamite Entertainment, Butch Guice, and the family of Bill Mantlo launched a Kickstarter campaign to created a remastered collection of the Swords of the Swashbucklers comic series, a creator-owned ...

Maine West High School student Andy White decided three years ago to try something that would set him apart from his peers. It was his freshman year at the Des Plaines school, and while many of his ...

The Swords of the Swashbucklers kickstarter campaign was hugely successful for Dynamite and with over 800 backers, the campaign not only funded the collection of the original series by Bill Mantlo and ...

ONLY A CLASSIC made in 1942 would begin with a sexual assault and end with the two involved as lovers. But that was the time when the 1930 Hays Code was in full swing – and rigidly enforced, according ...