1940s 17th-18thC Piracy
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1. The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
Directors: David Butler, Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter Slezak
Votes: 2,421
2. The Spanish Main (1945)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
After being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 1,875
3. The Black Swan (1942)
Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama
An ex-pirate contends with rowdy buccaneers and a love/hate relationship with an aristocratic woman who's tougher than she seems.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 5,087 | Gross: $1.01M
4. La figlia del corsaro verde (1940)
76 min | Adventure
Director: Enrico Guazzoni | Stars: Fosco Giachetti, Doris Duranti, Camillo Pilotto, Enrico Glori
Votes: 27
5. Il figlio del corsaro rosso (1943)
80 min | Adventure
Director: Marco Elter | Stars: Vittorio Sanipoli, Luisa Ferida, Memo Benassi, Loredana
Votes: 11
6. Gli ultimi filibustieri (1943)
82 min | Adventure
Director: Marco Elter | Stars: Vittorio Sanipoli, Loredana, Osvaldo Valenti, Nerio Bernardi
Votes: 12
7. El corsario negro (1944)
100 min | Adventure, Action, Drama
This genuine swashbuckler is yet another film from prolific Director Chano Urueta. It is based on the 1868 novel "The Black Corsair" by Italian author Emilio Salgari. Set in the Caribbean ... See full summary »
Director: Chano Urueta | Stars: Pedro Armendáriz, June Marlowe, María Luisa Zea, Antonio Díaz
Votes: 35
8. Frenchman's Creek (1944)
Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An English lady falls madly in love with a French pirate.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 817
9. Captain Kidd (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine
Votes: 2,068
10. The Pirates of Capri (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Action, Drama
A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples in 1799. The Queen is ... See full summary »
Directors: Edgar G. Ulmer, Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Stars: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Mariella Lotti, Massimo Serato
Votes: 225
11. Rosvo Roope (1949)
99 min | Adventure, Drama, Musical
Director: Hannu Leminen | Stars: Tauno Palo, Helena Kara, Ghedi Lönnberg, Kirsti Ortola
Votes: 211
12. Marinos Kontaras (1948)
80 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Marinos Kontaras, a pirate in the Aegean, falls in love and abducts beautiful Lemonia.
Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Manos Katrakis, Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Petros Giannakos, Billy Konstantopoulou
Votes: 17
13. New Moon (1940)
Passed | 105 min | Adventure, Musical, Romance
On a Louisiana-bound ship, a nobleman planning a campaign for liberty encounters an heiress.
Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco
Votes: 641
14. Il pirata sono io! (1940)
75 min | Comedy
In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Erminio Macario, Juan de Landa, Dora Bini, Carmen Navascués
Votes: 25
15. Three Little Pirates (1946)
18 min | Comedy, Short
Three bumbling sailors from a garbage scow are marooned on an island where the anachronistic inhabitants seem trapped in the 17th Century.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Christine McIntyre
Votes: 584
16. Jolly Roger (1948 TV Movie)
90 min | Musical
Stars: Gavin Gordon, Fabian Smith, Dennis Bowen, Bill Stephens
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