| Well, a mixed result in this collection.... |
Like in their Hammer Classics collection, Universal has attempted to assemble some of the most significant movies in their Swashbuckler vault section.
The result is kind of so-so. While "Against All Flags" and "Yankee Buccaneer" are the two more recognizable in this genre, starring respectively, an aging Errol Flynn (but not as tired looking as he would be later in "Roots of Heaven", "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Master of Ballantrae") in "AAF" and Jeff Chandler in "YB", the other two are just forgettable ones.
All four transfers are decent but still sport some minor scratches in the filmed material in itself, while the colors a vivid and sharp. Sound is all over in Mono. No further effort has been made to amplify a bit the width of sound (a pity in this kind of spectacles).
Anyway, for its price it is really a bargain and in our day and age, in which everything costs an eye and a leg, like in those long bygone pirate days, this collection is still worth your attention.
In any case such movies were still more entertaining than some crap we get dished up nowadays. |
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