The Crimson Pirate

• 6.967 Adventure
• 1952-09-27
• 105 minutes mins

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

Starring:

Burt Lancaster (Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)) Nick Cravat (Ojo) Eva Bartok (Consuelo) Torin Thatcher (Humble Bellows) James Hayter (Prof. Prudence) Leslie Bradley (Baron Jose Gruda) Margot Grahame (Bianca) Noel Purcell (Pablo Murphy) Frederick Leister (Sebastian) Eliot Makeham (Governor)

Director:

Robert Siodmak

Writer:

Roland Kibbee