Walter Matthau
Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red
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Pirates is a 1986 adventure comedy film written by Gérard Brach, John Brownjohn, and Roman Polanski and directed by Polanski. It was inspired by Polanski's love of classic pirate films, as well as Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.
Pirates: Directed by Roman Polanski. With Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas, Olu Jacobs. The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Pirates 1986. Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks...
Sep 27, 2010 · Pirates (1986) Trailer. The possibility for laughs exist in these bizarre bits of business, but laughter never comes. This long opening scene exists solely to introduce Red as a comically ...
Jun 10, 2017 · Pirates 1986 The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog. Director: Roman Polanski Writers: John Brownjohn (screenplay), Gérard Brach Stars: Walter Matthau, Cris Campion,...
Pirates. Adventure. 117 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1986. Roger Ebert. July 18, 1986. 3 min read. There hasn’t been a pirate movie in a long time, and after Roman Polanski’s “Pirates,” there may not be another one for a very long time. This movie represents some kind of low point for the genre that gave us Captain Blood.
Pirates. Peg-legged Captain Red (Walter Matthau) and his sidekick (Cris Campion) seize a Spanish galleon and its Aztec booty. Pirates proves, if nothing else, that Matthau is not an action star...
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In the Atlantic Ocean, set in the year 1659, the infamous aging English pirate Thomas Bartholomew Red (Walter Matthau), known as Captain Red, and his ship's teenage cabin boy Jean-Baptiste (Cris Campion), nicknamed "Frog", are lost on a raft without supplies in the ocean.
Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red, a peg-legged British pirate, is captured by Don Alfonso, captain of the Spanish galleon Neptune. Eventually, Red causes the Neptune's crew to mutiny, abducts the niece of the governor of Maracaibo, and steals a golden Aztec throne from the Spaniards.
