Captain Kidd
by Rowland V. Lee
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Actor: Barbara Britton, Charles Laughton, John Carradine, Randolph ScottDirector: Rowland V. Lee
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Miracle Pictures
Movie Reviews of Captain Kidd
Movie Review: Kidd: "Your neck will be stretched as long as your memory, one of these days."
Summary: 4 Stars
The solid company of CAPTAIN KIDD includes New Yawker Sidney Sheldon. He played the racetrack tout on Jack Benny's radio and television shows and produced many famous TV series in the 1960s.
Charles Laughton, who was Lt. William Bligh in MGM's MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) is cast as a fictionalized version of privateer William Kidd. Laughton portrays this Scotsman as a Cockney-accented social climbing scenery chewer who hires valet Reginald Owen hoping to be civilized by this genteel fellow.
This story is awash with pirate clichés and cliché pirates, yet an ample sprinkling of action and Laughton's eyebrow-waggling presence overcome such deficits as a lack of continuity and a woefully miscast Randy Scott.
Swashbuckler fans won't be disappointed here. Sticklers for historical accuracy on the other hand...
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 imdb viewer poll rating.
(6.4) Captain Kidd (1945) - Charles Laughton/Randolph Scott/Barbara Britton/John Carradine/Gilbert Roland/John Qualen/Sheldon Leonard/William Farnum/Henry Daniell/Reginald Owen
Summary of Captain Kidd
In this account Captain Kidd is already a clever ruthless pirate when in 1699, he tricks the king into commissioning him as the escort for a treasure ship from India. He enlists a crew of pardoned cutthroats, one of whom he had hoped to never see again. Let the treachery begin.Similar DVD Movies
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