Knife Fighting Movies

[innerpiece]

well, we all know there are plenty of firearm based combat movies...

but aside from "Hunted" Im not aware of any Knife based combat movies (NOT including the multitude of foriegn MartialArts movies that I do enjoy)...

any advice or reviewes?!

thanks, ip.

 

[highorder]

The knife fight in the end of Under Seige is pretty good.

 

[Rupestris]

Gangs of New York is one of my favorite "knife movies".

The Princess Bride has some good fencing scenes.

Jeramiah Johnson dispatches a couple Crow with his Bowie.

 

[Carl Levitian]

Most holliweird movies are pretty lame when it comes to knives. One that stands out in my mind as being more realiastic is from Here To Eternity, when Montgomery Clift and Ernest Borgnine go at it in the alley. Both end up sliced and diced, but Borgnine gets it worse and dies, Clift is leaking bad but makes it to his girl friends place to get nursed back to health so he can be shot by a guard on base. Ironic.

Theres also a good Navaja fight scene in The Pride and The Passion. Cary Grant gets egged into a fight with one of the local peasant guys, and they square off with really big navaja clasp knives. Grant kills his man, but does not get away unscathed. He's lucky though, he gets patched up by a young Sophia Loren. Thats worth bleeding a little for.

Both are realistic in that's the way knife fights usually go; you can tell the winner because he's bleeding a little less than the loser.

If you want really good fencing scenes, look for old swashbuckler movies with Cornell Wild, he was discoverd while giving fencing lessons to actors on the set. I read someplace he actually coached Basil Rathbone and Tyrone Power in the original Zoro movie. Rathbone was supposed to be very good in reality. He had some good style in Captian Blood, but the script called for Errol Flynn to kill him so he had to loose. Oh well.

 

[John-Melb]

Fully agree Carl, most knife fights are simply a competition who bleeds out first.

Much prefer impact weapons, one good hit and it's "colouring books for Christmas"

 

[jahwarrior]

the 'Dune' tv miniseries was actually pretty good. plenyt of gun action, but LOADS of blade fighting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtyJX0Vbu7E

 

[MICHAEL T]

Movie Exposure is knife fighting movie about only thing used
1991 Peter Coyote

 

[JohnKSa]

Blocking a short blade with another short blade is movie stuff. Get some heavy gloves and practice with a friend using sticks instead of knives and you'll get the picture really quickly.

 

[DukeNukem]

Here's a scene from Kill Zone(SPL). Nicely done "movie fu" of collapsible baton vs. knife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZs48lJXhxM

 

[sidheshooter]

As Michael T says... the brazilian version was called "the high art"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9luEf5xex7c&feature=related

 

[Gunfighter123]

Exposure starring Peter Coyote is about the best Eskrima/Kali type of bladework movie ever made !!!!!!!!

 

[Limeyfellow]

West Side Story. The knife fight which nearly kills one guy and the other dies. That generally what happens.

 

[ReadyFreddy23]

Seraphim Falls (Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson) has some nice knife scenes. Great looking Bowie.

The Unit - TV show that has alot of nice Knife scenes

 

[sixboysdad]

I like the sword fights in Rob Roy. Pretty gory, though.

 

[MAGNUM44]

the original movie jim bowie it was called the Iron Mistress with ALAN LADD as Jim Bowie it was made in the 1950's I think in color great knife fight in it thats how I remember the movie. They say it was one of Ladd's greatest performances, I still think his role as SHANE was better

 

[PTK]

Here's a scene from Kill Zone(SPL). Nicely done "movie fu" of collapsible baton vs. knife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZs48lJXhxM

Neat! You rarely see much of batons in movies anymore...

 

[seeker_two]

I kinda liked the end fight scene in "Undercover Brother".....


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