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- Year
- 1952
- Runtime
- 105 min.
- Director
- Robert Siodmak
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.3
- Votes *
- 4,432
- Checks
- 536
- Favs
- 22
- Dislikes
- 3
- Favs/checks
- 4.1% (1:24)
- Favs/dislikes
- 7:1
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Siskoid
Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravatt follow The Flame and the Arrow up with The Crimson Pirate, a fun adventure romp at the top of which Lancaster tells us to believe only half of what we see. And he's right. Half of this swashbuckling movie is really a Looney-Tunes cartoon, where people take the full brunt of broadsides cannon balls and walk away with black smudges on their faces, and yet a few minutes later a single shot outright kills over a dozen men. It's a precarious balance, but if Lancaster and Cravatt have proven anything, it's that they're very good acrobats. That tightrope is nothing to them. Lancaster plays the eponymous pirate, a rather progressive fellow whose ploys may be a little too clever for his men (who lose faith because they can't play the long game), and who embraces what I can only call steampunk technology, at the behest of a scientist friend. In other words, this is a pirate movie that has a lot of fun and provides sequences you won't have seen a half dozen times. Not to say it doesn't lean into the usual tropes. As ever, we're told the pirate has nefarious C.V., but when he falls in love with a woman, he's gonna turn into Empire-Strikes-Back Han Solo. Shame about Eva Bartok's robotic performance then. 3 years 10 months ago -
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