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

Captain Pirate *** (1952, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton) – Classic Movie Review 9377

Director Ralph Murphy’s 1952 swashbuckling action adventure Captain Pirate [Captain Blood Fugitive] is the improved Technicolor sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) and is based on Rafael Sabatini’s novel Captain Blood Returns. It again […]

Feb, 13

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

Yellowbeard * (1983, Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, Peter Cook, Eric Idle) – Classic Movie Review 7797

Graham Chapman stars as pirate Captain Yellowbeard, who is allowed by the authorities to escape from prison to lead them to his cut-throat treasure, in Mel Damski’s failed 1983 British pirate comedy romp Yellowbeard. You […]

Nov, 17

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge * (2017, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario) – Movie Review

Johnny Depp returns for a fifth, and supposedly (and hopefully) last time as Captain Jack Sparrow, who finds that deadly ghost pirates led Captain Salazar (Javier Bardem) have escaped from the Devil’s Triangle, plotting to kill […]

May, 22

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