30 June 2013

Movie review for the day

Rico says he and the ladyfriend watched The Corsican Brothers, starring (as both Mario and Luigi) Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
While surely using amazing technology for the time (and not bad, even by today's standards), the brothers (born conjoined but surgically separated in an operation that would be difficult today; in an era centuries before antibiotics, it's a wonder of Hollywood that they survived) fight an oppressive tyrant (played by the inestimal Akim Tamirov) and each other (over a woman, of course) and display some remarkable swordsmanship. (There's a 'fighting-while-wounded scene that looks remarkably like the one in Princess Bride...)
Worth watching (but not the remake).

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