Mark of Zorro (1920)
Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckles as Zorro, the masked hero who set the mold for masked heroes.
Swashbucklers and seafaring adventures.
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The following films and shorts broadcast on CH 14 SWASH:
Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckles as Zorro, the masked hero who set the mold for masked heroes.
A 1954 Navy training film that teaches junior officers to lead by paying attention to sailors' mental health.
Sindbad wants Olive Oyl and sends a giant bird after her ship. Popeye, Wimpy and a can of spinach have notes.
Extra footage from a brickfilm, with pirates, Martians and a green spear, made before its creator knew the plot.
Douglas Fairbanks joins a pirate crew to avenge his father, in a two-color Technicolor adventure with that famous slide down the sail.
Swashbucklers and seafaring adventures.
Spunky Rita White wants to bring the telegraph out West, and the trouble ends here. 1949 serial, chapters 9 to 12.
Douglas Fairbanks is D'Artagnan, the young Gascon who joins the King's Musketeers in a whirl of swords and intrigue.
Swashbucklers and seafaring adventures.
Spunky Rita White wants to bring the telegraph out West and hires an engineer, but a crooked blacksmith has other plans. 1949 serial, chapters 1 to 4.
Rex Ingram's 1923 swashbuckler with Ramon Novarro as a fencing hero in the French Revolution.
Douglas Fairbanks leaps into Zorro's mask in 1920. The swashbuckler that started the hero's film career.
A 1924 swashbuckler of sea adventure and revenge. Rafael Sabatini's pirate yarn on the big screen.
John Gilbert in a 1922 swashbuckler of betrayal and revenge. Based on Dumas, but the details remain thin.
Douglas Fairbanks swings into the 1922 Robin Hood with big castles and bigger leaps. A giant of swashbuckling cinema.
The second half of Douglas Fairbanks's 1925 Zorro sequel. Whips, rooftops and more swordplay.
Douglas Fairbanks sweeps through a 1925 sequel to Zorro. Part one of two.
Two sailors on shore leave get swindled and fall for a girl. Alan Hale and Sally Eilers star in this 1929 comedy.
Douglas Fairbanks as the masked avenger of 1920. The film that started the swashbuckling craze.
Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood, part one of two. The 1922 epic with castles and kings.
King Richard leaves for the Crusades and Prince John seizes power, so Douglas Fairbanks's outlaw leaps to the rescue. The 1922 Allan Dwan spectacle.
Douglas Fairbanks swings into the second half of his 1922 Robin Hood, the lavish silent that made swashbuckling a Hollywood staple.
Part 1 of a 1929 romantic comedy: two sailors on leave get swindled, with Sally Eilers and Alan Hale.
Reel 3 of a 1929 sailor comedy with Alan Hale and Sally Eilers. Shore leave, swindlers and romance.
A 1919 newsreel of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. with sailors and soldiers, noting the founding of the American Legion.
Douglas Fairbanks returns as Zorro's son, with whips, swords and Spain. A 1925 silent swashbuckler with Mary Astor.
Sessue Hayakawa plays an Indian doctor in England torn between love and duty, in this 1919 drama.
Harold Lloyd joins the Navy to impress a girl, and the high seas get silly. A 1921 silent feature.
A Kansas boy raised on tales of d'Artagnan leaps into real adventure out west. Douglas Fairbanks, 1917.
A 1925 silent comedy short that asks the question in its title.
A 1916 silent short with Professor Bonehead washed up after a shipwreck.
Eisenstein's 1925 landmark of a ship's mutiny and the massacre on the Odessa steps. Spanish-titled copy.
A New York Journal dispatch boat carrying war correspondents cuts through the water in 1898, billed as one of the fastest yachts around.
The New York Harbor Police boat Patrol chases river pirates in a staged 1903 action short. A few shots, and the pirates give up.
Wrecked docks, stacked freight cars and two schooners smashed together after the 1900 Galveston hurricane.
Winsor McCay's 1918 animated reconstruction of the Lusitania torpedoing, introduced by McCay himself. Sobering, ambitious hand-drawn work.
Rare footage tied to the Titanic story, including E.J. Smith on the deck of the Olympic, and the rescue ship Carpathia. A 1912 newsreel compilation.
Wrecking boats circle the twisted iron remains of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor. Filmed from a moving launch, 1898.