The Master of Ballantrae<\/i> (1953) is a swashbuckler done right; from a book by R L Stevenson. Technicolor, of course, though not as luminous as in Scaramouche<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Fifteen years after Robin Hood<\/i>, Errol Flynn is my age, which gives me an idea. The castle of “Ballantrae”, by the way, also appears in an episode of The New Avengers<\/i> (1976).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Master of Ballantrae (1953) is a swashbuckler done right; from a book by R L Stevenson. Technicolor, of course, though not as luminous as in Scaramouche. Fifteen years after Robin Hood, Errol Flynn is my age, which gives me … Continue reading
\nBeing indecisive by nature, I arrange my Netflix<\/a> list by date, but I could instead arrange it by the age of the director or lead actor. I could even write a Python program to probe the Internet Movie Database<\/a> for that information; I wonder how long it would take to go through all the titles from title\/tt0000001<\/i> (Carmencita<\/i>, 1894: “The noted dancer, who goes through her graceful act exactly as she does at Koster & Bial’s, New York”) to title\/tt0500200<\/i> (Bernadette Peters in Concert<\/i>, 1998).<\/p>\n