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Release Date:
1 July 1940 (USA)
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Dashing . . . romantic . . . Errol Flynn at his thrilling best! more
Plot:
Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England...
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
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(2 articles)
A Career-Spanning Conversation with Joe Dante
(From Fangoria. 11 October 2009, 4:32 PM, PDT)
Gladiator Director Plans Captain Kidd Movie
(From WENN. 7 February 2001)
(From Fangoria. 11 October 2009, 4:32 PM, PDT)
Gladiator Director Plans Captain Kidd Movie
(From WENN. 7 February 2001)
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A Lot To Like In Yet Another Entertaining Flynn Film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Errol Flynn | ... | Captain Geoffrey Thorpe | |
| Brenda Marshall | ... | Doña Maria Alvarez de Cordoba | |
| Claude Rains | ... | Don José Alvarez de Cordoba | |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Admiral Sir John Burleson | |
| Flora Robson | ... | Queen Elizabeth | |
| Alan Hale | ... | Carl Pitt | |
| Henry Daniell | ... | Lord Wolfingham | |
| Una O'Connor | ... | Miss Marthe Latham | |
| James Stephenson | ... | Abbott | |
| Gilbert Roland | ... | Captain Lopez | |
| William Lundigan | ... | Danny Logan | |
| Julien Mitchell | ... | Oliver Scott | |
| Montagu Love | ... | King Phillip II | |
| J.M. Kerrigan | ... | Eli Matson | |
| David Bruce | ... | Martin Burke |
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Also Known As:
Beggars of the Sea (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
109 min (re-release) | 127 min (original version)
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Black and White |
Black and White (Sepiatone) (some sequences)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Portugal:M/6 |
USA:Approved (certificate #6090) |
UK:U |
Australia:G |
New Zealand:PG |
Finland:K-11 (DVD rating) |
France:U |
Finland:S |
Sweden:15
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Finnish censorship visa # 23684 delivered on 4-8-2005 (DVD)
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Anachronisms: The story takes place in 1588. The flint-lock muskets and pistols used in the film were not in use until two-hundred years later.
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King Philip II: The riches of the New World are limitless, and the New World is ours - with our ships carrying the Spanish flag on seven seas, our armies sweeping over Africa, the Near East, and the Far West; invincible everywhere... but on our own doorstep. Only northern Europe holds out against us; why? Tell me, why?
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King Philip II: The riches of the New World are limitless, and the New World is ours - with our ships carrying the Spanish flag on seven seas, our armies sweeping over Africa, the Near East, and the Far West; invincible everywhere... but on our own doorstep. Only northern Europe holds out against us; why? Tell me, why?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Terror Night (1987)
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Soundtrack:
Old Spanish Song
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This is definitely an Errol Flynn classic, meaning one of his best films and the charismatic star of the mid-'30s to mid-'40s did a number of entertaining ones. He's best known - on screen, that is - as a swordsman from his "Captain Blood" and "Adventures of Robin Hood" days, but he also was terrific as boxer James J. Corbett in "Gentlemen Jim" and as western star "Wade Hatton" in "Dodge City."
He's great here as pirate "Geoffrey Thorpe" and what makes this pirate movie different is that half of the action scenes are on land, not sea. (They on are on island, or back in the castle of Queen Elizabeth). Flynn captains "The Albatross" and is a privateering ship captain for her Majesty the queen in the 1500s. They are battling the Spanish in this story. The real bad guys are some of the turncoats in Elizabeth's court.
The film is interesting even with its length of over two hours. It keeps a good balance of drama, action, romance and suspense, never overdoing any of those.
While it's hard to beat the entertainment duo of Director Michael Curtiz and actor Flynn, Brenda Marshall as "Doria Maria," Thorpe's love interest, doesn't quite cut it. Olivia de Havilland usually played his female interest, and - although that doesn't require she play in every Flynn movie - they could have found someone more attractive and likable than Marshall who, justifiably, had a thin career. Her casting in here is a big mystery to me.
Whatever, Flora Robson was fun to watch as "Queen Elizabeth." Claude Rains and Henry Daniell played their normal bad-guy roles well and Thorpe's crew, led by Flynn's best friend Alan Hale, are all entertaining guys.
I enjoyed the sepia-tone sequence when Flynn and the boys go for the gold on the Panama island. That was a nice, little visual twist to this black-and-white movie..
Not to be left out is the sweeping score, under the direction of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, which is one of the more magnificent ones you'll hear in a classic film.