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Bookmark this pageThe Buccaneer (1958)
Director: Anthony Quinn
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Lavish spectacle produced for DeMille (who had directed his own version in 1938, and whose last production this was), misfiring lamely in its attempt to make swashbuckling entertainment out of the historical fact of pirate Jean Lafitte's patriotic gesture in fighting the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Very stodgy.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Anthony Quinn
Producer: Henry Wilcoxon
Cast: Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Charles Boyer, Inger Stevens, EG Marshall, Henry Hull full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 121 mins
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