The Crimson Pirate (1952) Reviews & Ratings

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The Crimson Pirate reviews

The Crimson Pirate holds a 7.0/10 average from 165 TMDB ratings.

This is a great little vehicle for an almost 40 year-old Burt Lancaster to demonstrate his star quality (and not inconsiderable athleticism) alongside his long time friend and fellow acrobat Nick Cravat in this really quite enjoyable swashbuckler. The plot is all pretty routine stuff; pirate versus unpopular King, and the script probably ought not to go too near a microscope, but it isn't there to educate or inform,…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

Movies like The Crimson Pirate

If you enjoyed The Crimson Pirate, these movies have a similar feel:

• Swashbuckler (1976)
• Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
• Pirates (1986)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
• Treasure Island (1950)
• Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)
• Last Knights (2015)
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• The Vikings (1958)

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