The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Adventure · Comedy
Overview
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
Cast
- Burt Lancaster as Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)
- Nick Cravat as Ojo
- Eva Bartok as Consuelo
- Torin Thatcher as Humble Bellows
- James Hayter as Prof. Elihu Prudence
- Leslie Bradley as Baron Jose Gruda
- Margot Grahame as Bianca
- Noel Purcell as Pablo Murphy
- Frederick Leister as Sebastian
- Eliot Makeham as Governor