I began watching this thing 30 minutes ago. I stopped watching this thing 15 minutes ago. I couldn't take it any longer. It has nothing going for it. You'd have to be drunk out of your mind to even laugh at this 'film'....except the 2 Munchkin soldiers bound together and swinging from a tree limb and yelling "Help!!!" like little girls.First appearance of Richard Greene had his head tilted at an odd angle like a pud trying to escape from someone's trousers on a sunny day....and it grins.Terrible directing, casting, music, color, acting, dialog, fencing, wit, choreography, costumes - even the scenery is awful.Greene fences like a Clydesdale - clump clump clump."I am a stranger only to those who do not know me." Whoa. Great stuff.I can't watch the rest. Even the chick is ugly.Useless. At least back in VHS days, I could have taped over the film. With a DVD, all I have is a round pocket mirror or a frisbee of death.Not worth what it cost me which was nothing.

This is a bad film and, although it's not quite bad enough to be good, it was clearly made on the cheap for undemanding schoolboys with only scant regard paid to logic or character development.Richard Greene was no major talent when it came to acting but he towers above everyone else here - especially the pretty but wooden Leonora Amar. Naturally the perfunctory script makes it impossible for anybody to deliver a believable performance that they'd wanted highlighted on the CV, but some performances are little better than school nativity standard.The storyline is the familiar one about a nobleman returning to his homeland to discover his estate has been claimed by some unscrupulous tyrant. Greene's Captain Scarlett jovially sets about recovering what his rightfully his with he help of a similarly displaced nobleman and the princess he has rescued from one of the tyrant's cronies. The manner in which Scarlett and his sidekick escape from wall shackles is particularly memorable: With their hands shackled either side of them, they manage to retrieve the keys to their tethers from a guard using only their feet. In the next shot they are free with no explanation given as to how they managed to unlock themselves when their wrists were manacled to the cell walls.Scarlett finally manages to defeat the cruel tyrant by having half-a-dozen locals distract his guards by running around in scarlet cloaks. Obviously a resourceful chap, we can only assume he rides around the countryside with a dozen or so neatly folded in his saddle...Avoid unless you are prepared to leave all critical faculties at the opening credits.

Captain Scarlett is a tedious, repetitive, series of linked adventure stories featuring Captain Scarlett and his merry band of fencers righting the wrongs of post-Napoleonic France. Shot in Mexico, Captain Scarlett has no connection to, nor even a relationship with, reality or history. It is simply Robin Hood crossed with the Three Musketeers, Zorro, and a little bit of romance. The romantic angle, though poorly developed, comes closest to carrying the film because of Leonora Amar's bizarre but somehow captivating portrayal of Princess Maria. Princess Maria is rescued from an unwanted marriage by an egomaniacal swashbuckling do-gooder who calls himself Captain Scarlett, and who, apparently, has everybody but the local authorities wrapped around his finger. From thence proceeds an astonishing variety of impossible and somewhat idiotic adventures accompanied by ever-mounting tedium. The film could not have been more predictable. Directing - adequate. Acting - Generally as stiff as styrofoamCinematography - OK, but nothing specialEditing - pithy Script - Almost as stiff as the actingRecommendation - AVOID.

This should have been a classic swashbuckler in the tradition of Zorro, Robin Hood, and Captain Blood. It has a good, traditional, premise (young nobleman returns home to find his home and land taken over by the bad guy, and then tries to get back his land, right wrongs, and free the oppressed, all while making loyal friends and falling in love), but the poor acting, directing, and way too cheesy script (so bad it's funny) ruin this movie for the sophisticated viewer. I loved this film as a child, however (the poor acting and super cheesy script did not bug me then), especially the fact that he teaches the girl (Princess Maria) how to sword fight (in one of the few good lines in the film he comments that no one has taught her anything useful - her skills up to that point being embroidery, dancing, etc). I really wish Disney or some other company would remake this movie in to something better, instead of remaking good old films into something worse. Saddly, I fear this film has been forgotten by the big studios and that I will have to content myself with the fact that many of the things I enjoyed in the movie as a child (like the sword fighting Princess, and the way they trick the bad guys in by all dressing as Captain Scarlet) have been used since in other, better made movies.