The Flame and the Arrow
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Capt. Vallo (Burt Lancaster), the leader of a roving band of pirates, hijacks a ship filled with expensive cargo. When a crew member (Leslie Bradley) tells him the ship was bound for an island ...
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Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat have the time of their lives...
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An anonymous gunfighter (Terence Hill) follows a retired...
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Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat have the time of their lives as a pair of acrobatic sea-devils, and William Alwyn's rollicking musical score offers incidental pleasure. Full Review | Oct 21, 2019 ...
The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 British-American Technicolor comedy-adventure film from Warner Bros. produced by Norman Deming and Harold Hecht, directed by Robert Siodmak, and starring Burt Lancaster, who also co-produced with Deming and Hecht.
With Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher. During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Robert Siodmak
- 1952-09-27
- Crossbones
- Captain Blood
- Laputa: Castle in The Sky
- Captain Phillips
- Black Sails
- Hook
- The Crimson Pirate
- The Pirates: Band of Misfits
- Pirates of The Caribbean: Series
- Honorable Mention: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
An overlooked candidate for another list topic (shows unjustly canceled after one season), Crossbones took an exciting concept and ran with it: What if instead of dying, Blackbeardlived past his supposed demise in 1718, continuing to operate clandestinely in a secret location in the Caribbean? Played by expert thespian John Malkovich, this version ...
The second adaptation of the 1922 novel of the same name, Captain Blood is a significant film for many reasons. It was one of the first "talkies" that was a big-budget action-adventure on the high seas, casting sword-fighting legend Errol Flynn in the title role, and also stars future Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone. Flynn's performance made him a s...
Notable if for no other reason than being Hayao Miyazaki's first big hit at the American box office, Laputa: Castle in the Skyfollows the adventures of a boy and girl who are trying to keep a magical crystal from the army, a group of secret agents, and a family of sky pirates while trying to locate a legendary floating castle. RELATED:On Hayao Miya...
Though most films in the pirate genre tend to depict what is commonly referred to as the Golden Age of Piracy, taking place around 1650-1730, the fact is the problem of piracy still very much exists today. This is much less of a romantic fantasy and much more a confronting reflection of economic inequality that forces these men to take these extrem...
Functioning as a prequel to Treasure Island, Black Sails follows the exploits of a young John Silver as he navigates life alongside some iconic names from the annals of piracy. Blending real-world historical figures with fiction, coupled with a high production budget, Black Sails is one of the better offerings in the genre. It does have a very "Sta...
While Blackbeard is probably the most famous real-life pirate, the competition for his fictional counterpart is indeed a fierce one. Although an argument could be made for Long John Silver, most kids' first introduction to the pirate as we see them in our mind's eye is none other than Captain Hook, Peter Pan's sworn nemesis. Maligned at the time, w...
By the time this film was made, the pirate genre was already 30 years old - apparently more than enough time for the genre's conventions to be lampooned. More than 60 years before Our Flag Means Death, The Crimson Pirate skewers the Douglas Fairbanks/Errol Flynnpirate films with its tongue firmly planted in its cheek. RELATED: 70 Years Later, The C...
A product of animation legend Nick Aardman's studios, the unique nature of the claymation presentation should be enough to get most avid film lovers to at least give this one a look. Set during the crackdown on piracy in the reign of Queen Victoria, this band of misfits rushes to establish a name for themselves even as the golden age of piracy is c...
Few character introductions are as iconic and well-thought-out as the first time we're introduced to Captain Jack Sparrow. Sailing in from who knows where on a tiny boat that is slowly sinking, we see him scrambling to keep afloat - only to stop and pay his respects to his fellow pirates as they hang as a warning. The boat stays afloat just long en...
OK, so this isn't a television series or film. But in terms of immersion into a story of intrigue and adventure on the high seas, few have been as effective as Ubisoft's take on the genre in the fourth Assassin's Creed title, Black Flag. You play Edward Kenway, an opportunistic privateer who gets swept up in the assassins vs. templars conflict quit...
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Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
