Scaramouche is a great swordfight - incredibly dramatic.

My favorite screen swordfight is with Paul Henreid in The Spanish Main.

Though I do really love Flynn's in The Seahawk.

Cornel Wilde was a collegiate fencer and generally regarded as one of the best screen swordfighters.

There are so many samurai films it's tough to choose. It really deserves its own category since it's such a different fighting style, and you could still do a top twenty and they'd all be spectacular. Yojimbo, Zatoichi, Hanzo the Razor, Lady Snowblood, Lone Wolf and Cub...

You know, I've never seen Scaramouche, although I've read it a couple of times.

You know, I've never seen Scaramouche, although I've read it a couple of times.

It has Stewart Granger at his most handsome and dashing.

We just put on the Nicholas Cage "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." The first five minutes are an infodump in which they use the phrase "Prime Merlinean."

Isn't it a great phrase? I enjoyed the movie; it was fun.

Uh. Possibly that was not my reaction.

When I saw from the previews that it was Nicholas Cage and that nerdy guy from Undeclared using the name of a beloved Disney classic for marketing value, I figured it would be best to pass on it for the sakes of fellow moviegoers who might be sitting next to me when the rage blackout hit.

I like the nerdy guy. And Alfred Molina. Nicholas Cage must owe a lot of taxes.

And the scriptwriters. The scriptwriters must owe the government. Or someone.

Oh, no, not the actual mop scene from Fantasia. Couldn't they have left that alone?