okay… let’s keep it goin’ you swashbucklers and swine… those Errol Flynn-like sexy or toothless and grimy… talk about yer favorite movies
here’s an interesting site that claims to list every pirate movie ever made
but to get you started:
hay hay hay… it’s pfiore8 in the corral today… featuring pirate films. so start yer chit and chatting… but first, a Pirate Song by George Harrison (really… stick with it for a few seconds…)
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD
1952 ~ Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughtontick swashbuckler.
AGAINST ALL FLAGS
1952 ~ Errol Flynn, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn
THE BELOVED ROGUE
1927 (silent) ~ John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day
THE BLACK SWAN
1942 ~ Tyrone Power, Maureen O’Hare, Anthony Quinn
BLACKBEARD’S GHOST
1968 ~ Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Elsa Lancaster
BLACKBEARD THE PIRATE
1952 ~ Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, Irene Ryan
THE BOY AND THE PIRATES
1960 ~ Charles Herbert, Susan Gordon, Murvyn Vye
THE BUCCANEER
1938 ~ Frederic March – About Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans.
THE BUCCANEER
1958 ~ Yul Brynner – a good remake of the 1938 film.
CAPTAIN BLOOD
1935 ~ Errol Flynn – A must see classic pirate epic
CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER
1951 ~ Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo
CAPTAIN KIDD
1945 ~ Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott
CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE SLAVE GIRL
1954 ~ Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor, Alan Hale Jr.
CAPTAIN PIRATE
1952 ~ Louis Hayward – Sequel to “Captain Blood”
CARRIBEAN
1952 ~ John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
THE CRIMSON PIRATE
1952 ~ Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat
CUTTHROAT ISLAND
1995 ~ Gena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella
THE DEVIL-SHIP PIRATES
1964 ~ Christopher Lee, Barry Warren, Suzan Farmer
DOUBLE CROSSBONES
1950 ~ Donald O’ Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer
FIRE OVER ENGLAND
1937 ~ Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson – loved this one…
FORTUNES OF CAPTAIN BLOOD
1950 ~ Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina
FRENCHMAN’S CREEK
1944 ~ Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
THE GOLDEN HAWK
1952 ~ Rhonda Fleming, Sterling Hayden
HOOK
1991 ~ Dustin Hoffman, Robin Willimas, Bob Hoskins, David Crosby – didn’t like it at first viewing, but has become better watching over the years
THE ICE PIRATES
1984 ~ Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Anjelica Huston
ISLAND
1980 ~ Michael Caine
THE KING’S PIRATE
1967 ~ Doug McClure, Guy Stockwell
LAST OF THE BUCCANEERS
1951 ~ Paul Henreid, Jack Oakie, Karin Booth
LONG JOHN SILVER
1954 ~ Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Connie Gilchrist
MAGIC ISLAND
1995 ~ Andrew Divoff, Zachery Ty Bryan
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE
1953 ~ Errol Flynn
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE
1984 ~ Richard Thomas, Michael York, Timothy Dalton
MORGAN THE PIRATE
1961 ~ Steve Reeves, Valarie Lagrange, Chelo Alonso
MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND
1996 ~ Tim Curry, Kevin Bishop, Jennifer Saunders
NATE AND HAYES
1983 ~ Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O’Keefe
PIRATES
1986 ~ Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Damien Thomas
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: The Curse of the Black Pearl
2003 ~ Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom –
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: Dead Man’s Chest
2006 ~ Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
1983 ~ Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt, Rex Smith
PIRATE OF THE BLACK HAWK
1961 ~ Mijanou (Brigette) Bardot, Gérard Landry
PIRATES OF THE PLAIN
1999 ~ Tim Curry, Seth Adkins
THE PIRATE MOVIE
1982 ~ Christopher Atkins, Kristy McNichol
PIRATES OF THE SEVEN SEAS
1965 ~ Steve Reeves
PIRATES OF TORTUGA
1961 ~ Ken Scott, John Richardson
THE PIRATES OF TRIPOLI
1955 ~ Paul Henreid, Patricia Medina.
PORT SINISTER
1953 ~ James Warren, Lynne Roberts, Paul Cavanagh
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
1987 ~ Peter Falk, Billy Crystal – LOVE IT… A story of how Wesley leaves his love ‘Buttercup’ promising his return, to make his fortune and meets “his end” with the Dread Pirate Roberts.
QUEEN OF THE PIRATES
1960 ~ Gianna Maria Canale, Massimo Serato, Scilla Gabel
RAGE OF THE BUCCANEERS
1962 ~ Ricardo Montalban, Vincent Price
RAIDERS OF THE SEVEN SEAS
1953 ~ John Payne, Donna Reed, Lon Chaney Jr.
RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND
1954 ~ Tab Hunter, Dawn Adams
RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND
1985 (6-part mini-series) ~ Brian Blessed, Christopher Guard – Disney pirate adventure
SEA DEVILS
1953 ~ Yvonne de Carlo, Rock Hudson
THE SEA HAWK
1940 ~ Errol Flynn
SINBAD THE SAILOR
1947 ~ Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Anthony Quinn, Maureen O’Hara – One of Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s best films.
SHIPWRECKED
1990 ~ Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne
THE SON OF CAPTAIN BLOOD
1962 ~ Sean Flynn – Errol’s son
SWASHBUCKLER
1976 ~ Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle
THREE LITTLE PIRATES
1946 ~ Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Larry Fine
TREASURE ISLAND
1934 ~ Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper – First Film Adaptation Of Robert Lewis Stevenson’S Classic 1883 Novel.
TREASURE ISLAND
1950 ~ Robert Newton
TREASURE ISLAND
1972 ~ Orson Welles, Kevin Burfield
TREASURE ISLAND
1990 ~ Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed, Christopher Lee – This made for TV version is one of the best adaptions of the classic novel.
YANKEE BUCCANEER
1952 ~ Jeff Chandler, Scott Brady – Standard pirate tale with a good cast.
YELLOWBEARD
1983 ~ Peter Cook, Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle – Classic satire
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Perhaps Bob Hope’s funniest movie, he plays ‘Sylvester the Great’, an actor who must save Princess Margaret (Virginia Mayo – ‘aaaargh!’) from the Hook (Victor Mclaglen) and the corrupt island governor La Roche (Walter Slezak) with the help of crazy crew member ‘Featherhead’ (Walter Brennan).
Hope is at his best when he tries to fool the crew by impersonating the Hook. Some of the funniest pirate talking you’ll ever see on film.
being a fine pirate of ye Olde Cape Cod….
thought I’d share a fun link to our local tresure…..no scrappin’ me treasure ye fools!
Pirate Ship Whydah
was in a pirate movie. Huh, you really do learn something new every day.
The NYTimes jimmied the lock on TimesSelect, and Krugman, Herbert and Rich have been spared the plank. All of the Archives are once again freed from the hold. Plunder, ye lads and lasses!
The stereotypical pirate Arrrggghh! was actually popularized by actor Robert Newton in Disney’s 1950 Treasure Island. From an article at Slate:
So really, it should almost be National Talk Like Robert Newton Talking Like a Pirate Day.
The only other actor I can think of who shares this kind of distinction is Bela Lugosi, who’s so unlike Bram Stoker’s Dracula, but now it’s impossible to imagine him otherwise.
I saw Stardust, the new(ish) fairy tale movie with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, and some others I don’t know.
It was pretty good. De Niro plays an over the top gay captain of a flying pirate ship.
Worth the rental for sure.
Cheers.
I must away to the dentist tomorrow, lest I end up making dentures from the bones of me enemies. The posts will be in the firm grip of the deux ex dharma, and their ghostly hands will spread before you my paragraph and a half of entertaining wisdom, of course. But any pony partiers who happen to be on and can swing by to give away a pony or ten…we captured a lot o’ ponies…they eat too much…must give some away…
I just walked into my favorite library to discover that it’s been pirated! By the cast, crew and set of the newest Pink Panther movie! How kewl is that? I’ve been tippy-toe-ing around the potted palms and the statuary that has cropped up overnight, and I got a glimpse or two at the set! Wowza!
As I am a movie and performer idiot, I don’t recognize any of the faces or the names on the cast chairs, but if you tell me who to look for, I’ll try to give you reports from the Pink Panther front.
the ghost & mrs. muir?
i saw it as a kid and thought it was the greatest movie ever.