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Paramount Pictures’ jolly silent classic 1926 pirate adventure yarn Old Ironsides from director James Cruze focuses on the Americans on a fighting ship seeing off the wicked Barbary buccaneers in the seas around Tripoli in […]
Aged 15, author Martin Amis played John Thornton in the 1965 DeLuxe Color adventure film A High Wind in Jamaica, an enchanting film version of the Richard Hughes novel. Young Martin Amis, now a famed best-selling […]
Director Luigi Capuano’s 1963 The Lion of St Mark [Il Leone di San Marco] is colourful Italian swashbuckling pirate adventure nonsense with Gordon Scott as the Venetian Doge’s son Manrico Venier, the heir to great […]
‘He Ravished The Pirate Port Of Madagascar To Steal The Love Of Its Corsair Queen!’ Director George Sherman’s 1952 Against All Flags is one of Errol Flynn’s last pirate movies, with the on-form star still […]
‘Greed and lust threaten a tropical paradise.’ Director Alfred E Green’s desperately daft and dated 1940 romantic adventure South of Pago Pago stars Victor McLaglen as Bucko Larson, who leads his band of ruthless pirates […]
In co-writer/director John Gilling’s 1962 high adventure yarn The Pirates of Blood River, pirates attack the French Huguenots for their gold. The movie stars Kerwin Mathews as the dashing Huguenot hero Jonathon Standing battling the […]
Orson Welles makes the expected 10-course banquet out of playing the pirate captain Long John Silver, revelling in revealing the murderous rogue’s dark side, in director John Hough’s generally entertaining adventure film. This adaptation was released in several […]