Calendar
2013 Pirate Film Series
All in Humanities Center 201, except the final film (in HC 205)
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| Showing date, time | Film, release date (running time) | Notes |
| Mon, 2 Sept, 6:00 pm | The Black Pirate, 1926 (88 min) | Stars Douglas Fairbanks; one of first Technicolor films |
| Mon, 16 Sept, 6:00 pm | Captain Blood, 1935 (119 min) | Errol Flynn becomes a star in this inventive retelling of a Rafael Sabatini story |
| Mon, 30 Sept, 6:00 pm | The Sea Hawk, 1940 (127 min) | Errol Flynn at his best, plus a fantastic final speech, along with a wonderful score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| Tues, 1 Oct, 5:00 pm | Captain Kidd, 1945 (90 min) | Charles Laughlin is the ill-fated Kidd |
| Mon, 14 Oct, 6:00 pm | The Black Swan, 1942 (87 min) | Tyrone Power and Maureen O?Hara star in a film so loosely based on Rafael Sabatini?s novel of the same name that it is an entirely different story |
| Mon, 28 Oct, 6:00 pm | The Crimson Pirate, 1952 (105 min) | Burt Lancaster stars; Sir Christopher Lee (Saruman, Count Dooku, etc.) also makes an appearance |
| Mon, 11 Nov, 6:00 pm | The Pirates of Penzance, 1983 [1883] (112 min) | Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, filmed on its 100th Broadway anniversary with (then) pop singing stars Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith as the leads. Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, and George Rose (Major General Stanley) also turn in fine performances |
| Mon, 25 Nov, 6:00 pm | Cutthroat Island, 1995 (124 min) | Without question the biggest financial flop in the history of pirate films. Geena Davis stars in a film that probably should have ended Hollywood?s love affair with pirates |
| Tues, 3 Dec, 6:00 pm | The Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2003
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But it didn?t. CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow.? Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski, and Jerry Bruckheimer make a lot of money.? Oh, and that guy who can only play a blacksmith-who-becomes-a-hero character. |