Writers: Aubrey Wisberg, Jack Polloxfen
Composer: Paul Sawtell
Starring: Anthony Dexter, Eva Gabor, Alan Hale Jr., James Seay, Richard Karlan, Noel Cravat, Lyle Talbot, Sonia Sorel, Michael Ross, Jack Reitzen, Robert Long, William Cottrell, William Tannen, John Crawford, William Schallert
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Swords Unsheathed! Love Untamed!
Plot: Captain Kidd, presumed dead, escapes the gallows and sails the seas once again but this time he's going to dig up his hidden treasure to buy a pardon from the king. The trouble is, there are plenty of others that want that booty for themselves.
My rating: 6.5/10
Will I watch it again? No.
What this picture might lack in some areas, it doesn't lack in action and pacing. It's lickety split right from the get go. The acting isn't that bad but Gabor shows enough range (from bad to acceptable) to let that slide a little. Dexter does a good job as our titular pirate hero and it's nice to see Hale Jr. as his sidekick just as his pop was for so many of Errol Flynn's pictures. He's great. I've never seen him otherwise. The music is rousing and there's lots of locations, although it would've been nicer to see more outdoor shooting. The biggest problem, if I have one, is that most of it is filmed in a studio and even the sets sometimes look clumsy (there were a couple times I saw them move unexpectedly). Oh, and then there's Dexter's facial hair that looks like it was done with a marker.
That's OK because I don't have the hots for him. I've now got it bad for Sonia Sorel as pirate Captain Anne Bonney!
Man, that broad was smokin' hot! I missed my chance with her. She died in '04 in her 80s. She's the mother of Keith & Robert Carradine and Michael Bowen. You know who Bowen is, right? Remember in KILL BILL Vol. 1 (2003) and the line "...sometimes this chick's cooch will get drier than a bucket of sand."? He's Buck and he likes to fuck.
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