[MA] Decompressing Historical Martial arts styles

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Originally Posted by Badmash

Richard Lester's Musketeers movies in the 70s had swordplay with both cloaks and daggers in the left hand. The fights were choreographed by William Hobbs, and I think he did a great job.

The actors did a lot of their own stunts, and fight scenes.

Confirm.

Rochefort (the late Christopher Lee) used sword and main-gauche; Athos (the late Oliver Reed) favored cloak and sword.

Reed, incidentally, in the fight by the water mill accidentally got about two inches of steel in the ribs -- so if you ever REALLY want to know what a man looks like when he is stabbed . . .

Saw it once -- don't need to see that scene again.