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The Crimson Pirate (1952)
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Roland Kibbee (written by)
Release Date:
27 September 1952 (USA)
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MAN OF NINE LIVES AND 1000 SURPRISES! (original print ad - all caps) more
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Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings...
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Pure joy
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
| Frank Pettingell | ... | Colonel |
 | Dana Wynter | ... | La Signorita (as Dagmar Wynter) |
 | Christopher Lee | ... | Joseph (attache) |
| Ewan Roberts | ... | Claw Paw |
| John Chandos | ... | Stub Ear |
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105 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
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USA:Approved (certificate #15427) |
West Germany:12 (nf) |
Australia:G |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:12 |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U
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In his autobiography, Christopher Lee claimed that Robert Siodmak changed the original screenplay: "The script started life as serious, nay solemn, but Robert Siodmak, the director, with all the sure touch of real tension behind him in The Killers and The Spiral Staircase, took stock of the material in forty-eight hours and turned it into a comedy."
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Continuity: In several scenes throughout the film, Burt Lancaster's tan appears and disappears, varying between those shots filmed on location in the Mediterranean and ones later filmed in the studio in Britain.
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Referenced in Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
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| Where was this filmed? | Ourorboros |
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'The Crimson Pirate' is pure joy. Maybe the most entertaining movie of the 50's - as far as 'pure entertainment' concept goes, and one of the greatests adventure movies ever made. Burt Lancaster was then at the apex of his powers, and shows very clearly what a good piece of Errol Flynn he could easily have been, and this was not an easy task at all, mind you. Bowing his personal idol Douglas Fairbanks, the dashing, wide-grin, elastic, self-assured Lancaster has marked a whole generation of youngsters - and adults as well - with this wonderful, colorful, funny, action-packed, greatly-soundtracked adventure-spoof, quite probably one of his bests movies ever, although even him surely never realized how good it was.
Popcorn at hand, I watched this masterpiece goggle-eyed, then, and do it very, very fondly now. Burt Lancaster was the man who thought me to love movies. My sincere thanks to him.