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Writers:
Howard Dimsdale (writer) &
John Grant (writer)
Release Date:
27 December 1952 (USA) more
Tagline:
They're Raising Cain on the BOUNDING MAIN!
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Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane... more | add synopsis
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Weak, lowbrow comedy that can still make you laugh in spite of yourself more (21 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Bud Abbott | ... | Rocky Stonebridge |
| Lou Costello | ... | Captain 'Puddin' head' Feathergill |
 | Charles Laughton | ... | Capt. William Kidd |
| Hillary Brooke | ... | Capt. Bonney |
| Bill Shirley | ... | Bruce Martingale |
| Leif Erickson | ... | Morgan |
| Fran Warren | ... | Lady Jane |
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70 min | Argentina:75 min
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Color (Supercinecolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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In the opening scene of It Started with Eve (1941), an assistant newspaper editor comments that if Jonathan Reynolds Sr. had lived two centuries earlier, he would have made a great pirate - "Captain Kidd himself." Three years later, Charles Laughton, who played Jonathan Reynolds Sr., played the title role in Captain Kidd (1945) and again in Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952). more
Quotes:
Capt. Bonney: If I weren't a pirate I'd cry. more
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Featured in Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994) (TV) more
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Speak to Me of the Tall Pine more
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Considering that Abbott and Costello had done "Meet The Invisible Man" the previous year, this film was a big comedown for them. But then again, considering that around the same period they also did "Comin' Round The Mountain" and "Lost In Alaska", maybe "Meet Captain Kidd" was par for the course. The saddest part here (apart maybe from all the singing that at times makes you feel as if you're watching a second-rate musical) is to observe how few verbal elements have remained in A&C's comedy; instead, their humor has been reduced to the lowbrow, unsophisticated slapstick of mugging, dumb misunderstandings, and people falling down or getting hit with shovels. But sometimes A&C's talent still comes through and the film can make you laugh in spite of yourself. Charles Laughton is loud, bombastic and takes a lot of bumps, to generally unfunny effect; Hillary Brooke is downright sexy as a female captain, and is without a doubt the brightest spot of this movie. (**)