Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection (Against All Flags / Buccaneer's Girl / Yankee Buccaneer / Double Crossbones)

Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection (Against All Flags / Buccaneer's Girl / Yankee Buccaneer / Double Crossbones) Sale

Buy Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection (Against All Flags / Buccaneer's Girl / Yankee Buccaneer / Double Crossbones). Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with four swashbuckling films in the Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection! Join unforgettable shipmates Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Yvonne DeCarlo and Donald O'Connor as they take to the high seas in search of boundless excitement and glorious treasure. Including the classic favorites Against All Flags, Buccaneer's Girl, Yankee Buccaneer and Double Crossbones, this is one must-own collection that will have you wanting to set sail again and again! AGAINST ALL FLAGS A British naval officer (Errol Flynn) is unjustly condemned for desertion and finds redemption with a rascally pirate captain (Anthony Quinn) and a beautiful buccaneer (Maureen O'Hara). BUCCANEER'S GIRL Love walks the plank when an ambitious New Orleans entertainer (Yvonne DeCarlo) discovers that the aristocratic playboy she's fallen for has a secret identity as a legendary pirate. YANKEE BUCCANEER "X" marks the spot where a U.S. commander (Jeff Chandler) must secretly infiltrate and stop a Caribbean colony of pirates and privateers before they send him plummeting to the depths of Davy Jones's locker. DOUBLE CROSSBONES When a bumbling shopkeeper's apprentice (Donald O'Connor) finds himself unfairly accused of a crime, he joins a motley crew of pirates and finds his true calling on the South Seas.

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Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection (Against All Flags / Buccaneer's Girl / Yankee Buccaneer / Double Crossbones) Review


This is a nice little budget set of pirate movies from Universal/International. Now, don't get me wrong, none of them are really award winners, but they are all passable entertainment on a Saturday afternoon, and the kiddies can watch all four with no worry.

As previously mentioned, "Against All Flags" is the real draw here. Flynn, O'Harra, and Quinn are really good. This is a bit late in Flynn's career, but he still has it, and there's a good swordfight at the end.

The other three pictures are notable more for their casts and supporting casts than anything else. "Buccaneer's Girl" is pretty good, again, for a Saturday afternoon time-passer. "Yankee Buccaneer," the weakest of the lot, has Jeff Chandler in it, and I've never liked him all that much. This movie didn't change my opinion, but if you look fast you'll see Michael Ansara (the Klingon Commander Kang on Star Trek) as a guard.

The last picture, "Double Crossbones," was kind of a surprise. The other films at least made a "stab" at being serious pirate movies, whilst this one was a musical comedy. It was an interesting, even bold choice to add to the set. O'Conner was in good form, and while the few songs aren't memorable, they are entertaining. It was also interesting to see Will "Grandpa Walton" Geer as an old salt sailor/pirate.

All four films lack the Robert Newton brogue we've all come to expect from pirates, but these films were made before Newton's version popularized the pirate accent we're so used to today.

Hey, if you like pirates yourself or know a pirate-phile you need to buy a gift for, you could do worse than to get a copy of this set. You can buy Cheap Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection (Against All Flags / Buccaneer's Girl / Yankee Buccaneer / Double Crossbones) online fast and easy, Shop Today!.

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Curse of the Golden Flower

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THE ILL-FATED ROMANCE BETWEEN AN IMPERIAL BODYGUARD & A PRINCETAKES THE LOVERS ON A DANGEROUS JOURNEY WHERE ROYAL FAMILYSECRETS ARE REVEALED.

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Curse of the Golden Flower, a fictionalized historical glimpse into the brutally complicated politics of Emperor Ping's (Chow Yun Fat) reign during the Tang Dynasty, shows the viewer just how far a megalomaniac must go to gain and retain power in medieval China. Lavish sets, massive ceremonial displays, and perversely fascinating battle scenes impress similarly to the special effects Americans have come to love and expect from Chinese action films like Zhang Yimou's previous House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. An intricate plot involving the Emperor's wife, Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) and their three sons, Crown Prince Xiang, Prince Jie, and Prince Cheng, most closely follows the Empress's secret plan to force abdication upon her corrupt husband as revenge for his slowly poisoning her with Black Fungus tea. Opening on the eve of the Chysanthemum Festival, 928 A.D., the Empress obsessively embroiders gold chysanthemums to adorn her army's uniforms while hatching plans with Jai to overthrow the Crown Prince for control of the throne. Meanwhile, a side plot develops as the Emperor's ex-wife and mother to Crown Prince Yu reemerges as Yu's lover. By the time the Festival occurs, family members are pitted against each other in a King Lear-ian web of lies that can only result in demise. The most sophisticated narrative aspect of Curse of the Golden Flower is that as the royal family crumbles, the Emperor's death grip on China remains unwavering. Gorgeous scenes set in the palace and costume design displaying China's upper class decadence cannot fail to entertain. The paradox between good and evil, here, is highlighted by how the Emperor successfully rules despite, and because of, his utter cruelty. --Trinie Dalton


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This is a movie that begs for a spectacular high definition release but this Sony blu-ray falls a little bit short.
Certainly this is one of the most visually stunning films ever made. The colors in this film rival SPEED RACER (and this ain't a Speed Racer sort of movie)! The costumes are never short of dazzling and the set design is so ornate, detailed and opulant that it is difficult to describe. The story is the great stuff of an over the top soap opera and the action scenes are loud and exciting. Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li are superb and Jay Chou is a revelation as the dashing Prince Jai. This is a great film. The blu-ray transfer looks pretty good, but not as good as you might expect it to. The colors are vibrant and beautiful and fine detail is evident in the costumes and long shots but some scenes look a bit soft (perhaps this is a fault of the source print and not the transfer). The soundtrack offers several variations from a Mandarin PCM 5.1, Mandarin Dolby 5.1 and English dub in 5.1. All of it sounds pretty good but nothing really special. Subtitles can be turned on or off for any version. The extras are just ported over from the DVD release with the 3 minute premier being a bore and the short documentary being fairly interesting and informative. Sony didn't seem to go the extra mile for this release and that is a shame because director Zhang Yimou went the extra mile to make an extraordinary and higly entertaining picture.

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