The Crimson Pirate

The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 American Technicolor tongueincheck comedyadventure film, produced by Norman Deming and Harold Hecht, directed by Robert Siodmak, and starring Burt Lancaster, who also coproduced with Deming and Hecht. Costarring in the film is Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Leslie Bradley, Torin Thatcher, and James Hayter.

In the Caribbean, late in the 18th century, Captain Vallo Burt Lancaster, a pirate known as The Crimson Pirate, and his crew capture a frigate of the Kings navy. The ship is carrying Baron Gruda Leslie Bradley, a special envoy to the King on his way to the Island of Cobra to crush a rebellion. Vallo proposes selling the frigates weapons cache to El Libre, the leader of Cobras rebels. Baron Gruda counters by proposing that Vallo capture El Libre and bring him to the Baron for a sizable reward. Vallo accepts, and Baron Gruda and his crew are released, while Vallo keeps the frigate. Some of his crew complain that this is not pirate business, but they come around when they find out the large amount of profit to be made.Vallo and his crew sail to Cobra, where the captain and his lieutenant, Ojo Nick Cravat, go ashore and meet with the islands rebels, led by Pablo Murphy Noel Purcell and Consuelo Eva Bartok. Vallo and Ojo learn that El Libre has been captured and is in prison on the island of San Pero. The meeting is interrupted by the Kings guards, and Consuelo quickly leads Vallo and Ojo to safety. Returning to the frigate, Vallo informs his crew he will rescue El Libre, though Consuelo only believes Vallo is interested in selling weapons to him. While promising Vallo that he will receive his payment, she informs him that El Libre is actually her father. ........

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