May 11, 2007 · Fuller once said that "the struggle to be free of boundaries" was the major recurring theme in his work, and his films are constantly chafing against the idea of the traditional Hollywood hero. In the climactic scene of "Forty Guns" (1957), a vicious young hothead takes the marshal's woman hostage and starts taunting him.
Beowulf the Warrior is an outstanding modern version of the oldest epic in the English language. Ian Serraillier has retold in verse the story of the hero Beowulf and his three memorable exploits - first, his rescuing of Hrothgar the Dane from the ravages of monstrous Grendel; next, his victory over Grendel's strange and horrible mother; and finally, in Beowulf's old age, his saving of his own ...