Proud to announce the latest book by our agency client Lawrence Ellsworth, Cinema of Swords: A Popular Guide to Movies & TV Shows About Knights, Pirates, and Vikings (Plus Samurai and Musketeers), a popular reference tome containing hundreds of reviews of action movies and programs. It will be published in 2023 by Applause Theater and Cinema Books*.

Ellsworth is the pen name of Lawrence Schick (seen below), who is also translator of Alexandre Dumas’s  Musketeers Cycle from Pegasus Books. Early in his career, Schick was a writer on the team at TSR Hobbies that developed Dungeons & Dragons. He’s something of a role-playing game legend. An impetus for the new book is his popular web feature, Cinema of Swords, on his site, and on Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature.

Shots from videos below: 1) Toshiro Mifune as a crafty ronin in Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” (released in 1961); 2) Basil Rathbone ready to skewer Errol Flynn in “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938), and 3) “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963), with stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen’s ingeniously conceived skeletons clashing with Todd Armstrong as the seeker of the Golden Fleece.

 

 

 

 

 

*We earlier sold Applause Books Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater by Alexis Greene to be published in October 2021.