August 5, 2008
the greatest of all swashbuckling adventures! pirates of the carribbean, bite me!
Alan Hale, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
The adventures of a piratical sea fighter, Geoffrey Thorpe, commander of a British sailing ship that preys on Spanish commerce in the late 16th century. Also focuses on internal politics within the co...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 19, 2005
Stats: 183 reviews
Flixster Reviews (183)
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April 21, 2008"sea hwak" is the quintessential swashbuckler with golden team of errol flynn and driector michael curtiz as well as flynn typecasted sidekick alan hale despite the abscence of basil rathbone and olivia de havilland who had been weary of the repeated stereotypes then.
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April 9, 2007watching this made me proud to be the half and mostly english that i am. set just before the attempted invasion by the silly spanish armarda whom we kicked the spanish butt of. first time i've ever seen anything with errol flynn in it and it werent half bad
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December 9, 2006Proof that pirate films existed before Johnny Depp. A classic swashbuckler with Errol Flyn doing what he does best combined with lavish period detail, political machinations and some great photography. And Flora Robson makes a wonderful Queen Elizabeth I.
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November 10, 2009One of the greatest adventure films of all time, and Errol Flynn is at his best. The score is one of the greatest ever composed, it's excellent and rousing. The entire cast is amazing, and some of the supporting actors stand out like Alan Hale Sr., Una O'Connor, Flora Robson, Don...( read more)
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September 18, 2009The best adventure epic of both Michael Curtiz and Errol Flynn. Outstanding.
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July 26, 2009I can't distinguish between this and Captain Blood too well in my mind, but I love 'em both. Though this one also has Claude Rains. How you can you not love him? He always makes such a good creep/bad ugy.
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November 26, 2006This is actually a completely different story to the previous movies of the same name, and isn't based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini.
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