The Black Swan (King, 1942): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.15pm
This 35mm screening will be introduced by Sheldon Hall, Emeritus Fellow, Sheffield Hallam University.
Time Out preview: A splendidly overripe swashbuckler, with Tyrone Power as an adventurer who lends a sword to his old comrade Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar) when he is appointed governor of Jamaica, seconding his bid to rid the Caribbean of buccaneers, in the process wooing and winning O'Hara's feisty damsel in distress, daughter of the former governor (George Zucco). Sanders is the villain of the piece, one Captain Leech, an unreformed pirate with a brazen red hairpiece and the beard to go with it. Excitingly staged, boldly photographed in Technicolor, and boasting a flamboyant cast, this is a classic of its type. Tom Charity
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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