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Athletics and pratfalls, but little real drama...
Yeesh! Burt Lancaster hams it up in this slapstick-heavy pirate movie, which features a ton of acrobatic schtick with him and his real-life childhood pal, Nick Cravat. The athletic stunts are impressive, but the script is not. It's intentionally silly and absurd -- this is a film that was made to amuse six-year-olds during the early Eisenhower era, and would probably still work its charms on the younger set today. But it has a campy, Mel Brooks-ish air to it: don't pick one this up if you're hoping for a straight-up swashbuckler action flick, ala "The Black Swan" etc. It'll just get on your nerves. The belabored (and numerous) comedy routines with Cravat, where he plays a Harpo Marx-ish mute pirate, are particularly excruciating. On the other hand, if you want a film that simply makes fun of the genre, this might be more up your alley...

(PS - film geek note: The scene in which Lancaster & his pals use the air bubble in an empty, upsidedown lifeboat to help them walk on the bottom of a bay is paid homage in an early scene in Johnny Depp's "Pirates Of The Caribbean," a film which does a much better job balancing comedy and action while spoofing this oft-maligned film genre...)

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Pirate comedy at it best!
Fans of Bloom and Deep's Pirates of the Caribbean, should check out pirate camp is done by the old pro Burt Lancaster. This is one riotously funny movie with Burt Lancaster and partner Nick Cravat (they were real partners in a circus act, childhood pals, before breaking into film!) and they get to strut them stuff in this really great film. Lancaster and Cravat play Pirates, in the true tradition, and while tweaking the local authorities nose and robing them blind, they come across Consuelo (Eva Bartok). She is the daughter of a local rebel who they are going to hang and she wants Lancaster to help free him. Tossing
James Hayter's absentminded Professor Prudence and Christopher Lee (an actual sword-fighter!! - watch Saruman in his younger days!!) you get all the perfect mix for slapstick humour at its best.

A long neglected classic and is fun for the whole family.

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WOW!!
I like movies about Pirates and I had taped this movie a couple of years ago when it was shown commercial free on a TV station called PLEX but for some reason I never got around to watching it until last night and I must say that I was very impressed! The Crimson Pirate is now one of my favorite movies about Pirates and the action, fight scenes were amazing and I also loved the love story between Captain Vallo (AKA, The Crimson pirate) and Consuelo. Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat who were both circus acrobats before getting into the movies were fantastic and the fact that they did all their own stunts was just amazing! I highly recommend this movie and I'm thinking of buying the DVD!