Crimson Pirate

Crimson Pirate

Released well after Douglas Fairbanks's and Errol Flynn's heydays, this good-natured Burt Lancaster vehicle is, nevertheless, a superior example of the classic swashbuckler: set in the 16th century, along the Spanish Main, this lusty adventure both expands on and explodes genre conventions. Lancaster, a circus acrobat before turning to movies in the '40s, gives what may be his most physical performance as sword-for-hire Captain Vallo, a.k.a. the Crimson Pirate. Nick Cravat, Lancaster's real-life circus buddy, matches the star leap for leap, somersault for somersault as Vallo's mute sidekick. The fetching Eva Bartok causes Vallo to throw over the Spanish for rebel forces, and a young Christopher Lee demonstrates the swordsmanship that would later make him a natural in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers. Director Robert Siodmak, known for his claustrophobic noir thrillers (1946's The Killers), handled most of the interiors, while Lancaster coordinated the tongue-in-cheek humor and macho derring-do. The broadly played action scenes, including the climactic 18-minute battle aboard a frigate, wouldn't be improved on for another three decades--by Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. The big difference: Harrison Ford needed a stunt double, Lancaster didn't. --Glenn Lovell

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NR (Not Rated)
Year:
1952
105
1,249 Views

Vallo:
Why did you bolt your cabin door last night?

Consuelo:
If you knew it was bolted you must have tried it. If you tried it, you know why it was bolted.

Vallo:
You've sold me Humble Bellows - and to a king's flunky!

Humble Bellows:
Aye. 'Tis my modest opinion that no man can fly pirate colors who's not willing to sell his friend, his sweetheart, or his mother.

Baron Jose Gruda:
Well spoken, Mr. Bellows.

Vallo:
Foul spoken it is, Humble Bellows. You've turned your hand against your captain's back. Yellow was never a pirate's colour.

Vallo:
Gather round, lads and lasses, gather round.

Baron Jose Gruda:
You may be over-confident, Captain Vallo. There are 200 of the King's marines aboard this vessel.

Vallo:
And only 20 pirates. That puts the odds slightly in my favour. Better surrender the ship.

Humble Bellows:
Meantime, we got regular pirate business to settle. We got the plank, the culprit and the verdict. All we need's a trial, an execution and a sentence.

Humble Bellows:
So much for the trial. Now for execution.

Humble Bellows:
There goes a good pirate, Stub Ear, to sell his wares like a fish peddler. Meaning no disrespect to the skipper, of course.

Stub Ear:
And us, with a price on our heads, hove to in one of His Majesty's ports like sitting ducks.

Poison Paul:
But if the skipper pulls us through again, we'll be the ducks what laid the golden eggs.

Humble Bellows:
Ye be thinking of geese, if you'll pardon the correction, Poison Paul. Geese... on a wild goose chase.

Pablo Murphy:
This one

Pablo Murphy:
can't talk and this one

Pablo Murphy:
can't keep quiet.

Vallo:
If I did a thing like that, you wouldn't need the guns I want to sell you. I'm a pirate, mate, not a dog killer!

Humble Bellows:
Be that bit of fluff El Libre?

Vallo:
That's the bit of fluff that's taking us to him.

Consuelo:
You are a fighter. Fight with us. Fight for something decent.

Vallo:
Not I. All my life I've watched injustice and dishonesty fly the flag of decency. I don't trust it.

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