Captain Kidd [Slim Case]
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Actor: Barbara Britton, Charles Laughton, Randolph ScottDirector: Unkn
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 88 minutes
Published: 2004
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-04
Studio: Digiview
Movie Reviews of Captain Kidd [Slim Case]
Movie Review: Kidd: "Your neck will be stretched as long as your memory, one of these days."
Summary: 4 Stars
DIGIVIEW's slimline cased DVDs feature unrestored public domain films that have no subtitles or extras beyond plot synopses on their back covers. Audio levels are superb, some of the highest distortion-free sound you'll find, which makes these ideal for laptop PC or portable disc player watching.
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 [Slim Case]
British actor Charles Laughton stars as the ruthless pirate and pillager of the high seas. Set in the 17 century, Captain Kidd convinces unwitting King William III to allow him to act as protector of a valuable treasure ship.