Swashbuckler (1976)
Bilge Gas
11 April 2007
Only the most deadly serious of us can stay mad at Swashbuckler, a ludicrous popcorn sack of a movie, made to capitalize on the star power of Robert Shaw, on the high seas as a pirate. I saw this movie when it made the rounds on HBO almost thirty years ago.

The memory is fuzzy except for three things: Robert Shaw had enough charisma to carry a movie on his own, pirate movies-by nature--are usually fun, and Genevieve Bujold jumps off a ship, stark naked.

Now, seeing Bujold naked is not a bad thing, but it's hardly the reason to track this movie down. I'd stick with the whole shiver-me-timbers, ship models blasting away at each other, eye-patches, and stuffy Royal Navy officers thing to justify the search.

Besides, the full frontal of Genevieve is for about a second anyway. They must have thrown that in to keep the movie from being pure vanilla.
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