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The Crimson Pirate
Adventure, Comedy
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy acrobatic swashbuckling, comic invention, colorful nautical spectacle, and carefree adventure over historical realism.
- Tone
- adventurous, playful, campy
- Payoff
- adrenaline, amusement
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- revolution, tyranny, freedom, deception, ingenuity
- Setting
- late eighteenth century, Caribbean islands and sailing ships
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