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Writer-director John Gilling’s fun 1961 period adventure stars Peter Cushing as a Cornish squire who tries to keep the smugglers at bay. Gilling’s British sea saga about a gang of shipwreckers’ reign of terror in […]
Director Frank Lloyd’s once famous 1924 silent film of Rafael Sabatini’s sea-borne swashbuckler story is beautifully produced and still exciting. It was a big hit and ended up the highest grossing movie of 1924. Forgotten star […]
Director Cy Endfield’s 1961 British adventure movie is produced by Charles H Schneer. Michael Craig and Michael Callan star as embattled American Civil War soldiers, officers Captain Cyrus Harding (Craig) and Herbert Brown (Callan), who […]
MGM Studios assembles a top-notch cast for director Tay Garnett’s great 1935 adventure yarn of piracy and romance on the high seas. Aboard ship Hong Kong to Singapore are dynamic, hard-drinking captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable), his […]
Director Robert Siodmak’s 1952 classic stars a wonderfully agile Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, aka The Crimson Pirate, and his former circus acrobat partner Nick Cravat as Ojo. Lancaster and Cravat are awash in acrobatic […]
Sean (son of Errol) Flynn gives a thin-blooded performance as Robert Blood, the son of his real-life father’s notorious pirate character from the excellent 1935 classic swashbuckler Captain Blood. Director Tulio Demicheli’s flabby 1962 adventure […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s vintage 1935 American black-and-white swashbuckler pirate film Captain Blood from Warner Bros is a great bona fide adventure classic and turned the young Errol Flynn into a superstar. It also established the […]