Derek Winnert

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Old Ironsides [Sons of the Sea] **** (1926, Wallace Beery, Esther Ralston, George Bancroft, Charles Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 10,779

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 […]

Jan, 12

A High Wind in Jamaica **** (1965, Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Dennis Price, Lila Kedrova, Gert Fröbe, Nigel Davenport, Isabel Dean, Ben Carruthers) – Classic Movie Review 9,097

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 […]

Nov, 25

The Lion of St Mark [Il Leone di San Marco] ** (1963, Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 7965

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 […]

Dec, 31

Against All Flags *** (1952, Errol Flynn, Maureen O’Hara, Anthony Quinn, Mildred Natwick, Robert Warwick) – Classic Movie Review 7277

‘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 […]

Jul, 10

South of Pago Pago ** (1940, Victor McLaglen, Jon Hall, Frances Farmer) – Classic Movie Review 7239

‘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 […]

Jul, 01

The Pirates of Blood River *** (1962, Christopher Lee, Kerwin Mathews, Peter Arne, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, Andrew Keir, Glenn Corbett) – Classic Movie Review 3280

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 […]

Jan, 18

Treasure Island *** (1972, Orson Welles, Kim Burfield, Lionel Stander, Walter Slezak, Rik Battaglia) – Classic Movie Review 2061

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 […]

Jan, 09

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