Black Swan

Release Date: 2006-07-11, Rating NR (Not Rated),

DVDs. Black Swan

After receiving the governorship of Jamaica former pirate Henry Morgan--now Sir Henry Morgan-- dispatches his able first mate James Waring to dispense of his former henchman the red-headed villain Captain Billy Leech George Sanders and his fighting ship the Black Swan. In the process Waring also a pirate turned loyal subject abducts Margaret Denby Maureen O'Hara a young woman of aristocratic bearing. Margaret fights him tooth and nail up until a battle between Waring and Leech changes the way she feels about her captor. Power brings a winning mix of gallantry and roguishness into the role of Waring while the film itself harbors the perfect recipe for entertainment between its passionate romance lush photography adventure on the high seas and outlandish characters from both fact and fiction.

Costume Adventure DVD - Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and heroine Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara taking turns being tied up and imprisoned throughout the film's brisk 85-minute running time. Very loosely adapted by Ben Hecht and Seton I. Miller from a novel by Rafael Sabatini, the film casts Power as rogueish, hot-tempered buccaneer Jamie Waring, who considers the day wasted when he hasn't sacked a Spanish galleon or plundered a rich coastal town. Jamie's partner in crime is pirate king Henry Morgan Laird Cregar, an alliance that comes to an end when Morgan is appointed governor of Jamaica. Disgusted by this defection, Jamie considers joining the scurrilous Redbeard (George Sanders), but eventually decides to reform his ways when he falls in love with Margaret Denby (O'Hara), the gorgeous daughter of the former Jamaican governor Lord Denby (George Zucco). Before the final obligatory sail into the sunset, however, Margaret i