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SWASHING AND BUCKLING.(Scarlet Pimpernel television programs and Pearl Harbour motion picture, reviews)
THE DIFFERENCE between a swashbuckler and a good period actor is whether he has lightness of touch, a certain playfulness," that great master of swordplay, Owen Weingott, would argue. "It's what made Douglas Fairbanks senior and junior so effective, while fine period actors like Stewart Granger in Scaramouche had to work at it."
Owen was well qualified to comment. He had been a star of Australian theatre and radio since the late 1940s as well as coaching the Australian fencing team for the 1956 Olympics. In 1954 Owen staged the first mass duel in cinemascope ever for Byron Haskin's Long John Silver, then swashbuckled himself to great effect in the spin-off ...
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