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Release Date: 1952

Cast: Eliot Makeham, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, Frederick Leister, Frank Pettingell, Noel Purcell, Burt Lancaster, Leslie Bradley, Christopher Lee, Nick Cravat, James Hayter, Margot Grahame ...MORE

Cast: Eliot Makeham, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, Frederick Leister, Frank Pettingell, Noel Purcell, Burt Lancaster, Leslie Bradley, Christopher Lee, Nick Cravat, James Hayter, Margot Grahame, Dana Wynter ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Costume Adventure, Drama Film, Adventure, Epic, Adventure Comedy, Action/Adventure, Action, Comedy, Swashbuckler Films

The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak. It stars Burt Lancaster, who also co-produced the film, as Captain Vallo, the eponymous pirate, and is set in the Caribbean late in the 18th century, on the fictional islands of Cobra and San Pero. Tongue-in-cheek, it provides light comedy touches in an otherwise dramatic story. In the Caribbean, late in the 18th century, Captain Vallo (Burt Lancaster), a pirate known as "The Crimson Pirate", and his crew capture a ship of the King's navy. The ship is carrying Baron Gruda (Leslie Bradley), the special envoy to... MORE

The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Robert Siodmak. It stars Burt Lancaster, who also co-produced the film, as Captain Vallo, the eponymous pirate, and is set in the Caribbean late in the 18th century, on the fictional islands of Cobra and San Pero. Tongue-in-cheek, it provides light comedy touches in an otherwise dramatic story. In the Caribbean, late in the 18th century, Captain Vallo (Burt Lancaster), a pirate known as "The Crimson Pirate", and his crew capture a ship of the King's navy. The ship is carrying Baron Gruda (Leslie Bradley), the special envoy to the King, who is on his way to the Island of Cobra to help crush a rebellion by rebels opposed to the King's rule. Vallo proposes to make money by selling the weapons on the ship to El Libre, the leader of the rebels. Baron Gruda then proposes to pay Vallo money if he can capture El Libre and bring him to him. Vallo accepts and Baron Gruda and his crew are released, Vallo keeping their ship and releasing Gruda and his men onto his own. While some of the pirates complain that this is not pirate business, they soon come around when they find out the amount of money to be made. Vallo and his crew LESS