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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection (Against All Flags / Buccaneer's Girl / Yankee Buccaneer / Double Crossbones)
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List Price: $26.98
Our Price: $20.99
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Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Yvonne de Carlo, Donald O'Connor
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0025193334329
Format: Color
Label: Universal Pictures
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Universal Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-05-08
Running Time: 323
Studio: Universal Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 1950-03-01
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Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with four swashbuckling films in the Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection! Join unforgettable shipmates Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Yvonne DeCarlo and Donald O'Connor as they take to the high seas in search of boundless excitement and glorious treasure. Including the classic favorites Against All Flags, Buccaneer's Girl, Yankee Buccaneer and Double Crossbones, this is one must-own collection that will have you wanting to set sail again and again! AGAINST ALL FLAGS A British naval officer (Errol Flynn) is unjustly condemned for desertion and finds redemption with a rascally pirate captain (Anthony Quinn) and a beautiful buccaneer (Maureen O'Hara). BUCCANEER'S GIRL Love walks the plank when an ambitious New Orleans entertainer (Yvonne DeCarlo) discovers that the aristocratic playboy she's fallen for has a secret identity as a legendary pirate. YANKEE BUCCANEER "X" marks the spot where a U.S. commander (Jeff Chandler) must secretly infiltrate and stop a Caribbean colony of pirates and privateers before they send him plummeting to the depths of Davy Jones's locker. DOUBLE CROSSBONES When a bumbling shopkeeper's apprentice (Donald O'Connor) finds himself unfairly accused of a crime, he joins a motley crew of pirates and finds his true calling on the South Seas.
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Summary: Crazy About Old Movies
Comment: When I was a teenager I saw Buccaneer's Girl and I have always wanted to see it again...so when I founded at Amazon I got very excited and I bought it right away and not only I got this movie I got 3 more pirate's movies. Great price and great entertainment, I recommended very much.
Thank you for your time, ERT
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Summary: Swashbuckling on the Seven Seas
Comment: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker
Basil Rathbone: His life and his films
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
The gem in Universal's PIRATES OF THE GOLDEN AGE (2-discs/4 color movies) is AGAINST ALL FLAGS (1952), an Errol Flynn swashbuckler that has the action star playing a British naval officer who pretends to be a deserter so that he can join up with a band of Madagascar pirates who are raiding the shipping lanes and, subsequently, bring them to justice.
Directed by George Sherman, the entertaining film co-stars Maureen O'Hara as a non-participating friend to the pirates and Anthony Quinn as the leader of the cutthroats.
AGAINST ALL FLAGS may not be in the same league as Flynn's earlier swashbucklers, but there's some great swordplay and the actor (or his double) performs a spectacular stunt in the climatic battle sequence.
While AGAINST ALL FLAGS was in production, Flynn suffered an injury that forced filming to be halted for several weeks. Rather than waste the sound stage that housed the pirate ship, Universal decided to make another seafaring movie, YANKEE BUCCANEER (1952), which starred Jeff Chandler as the captain of a US Navy vessel that masquerades as a pirate ship in order to stop the real pirates who are attacking merchant shipping in the Caribbean.
Scott Brady, playing future Navy hero David Farragut, Suzan Ball, Joseph Calleia and Michael Ansara co-star in this okay actioner.
BUCCANEER'S GIRL (1950) works because it doesn't take itself too seriously. Yvonne De Carlo charms and even sings a few songs as a New Orleans entertainer who discovers that the aristocratic ship's captain (Philip Friend) she's fallen for is really the legendary pirate who's attacking the ships of the film's true villain, Robert Douglas.
Elsa Lanchester and Andrea King co-star.
DOUBLE CROSSBONES (1950) is a spoof of pirate movies that, sadly, is not very funny. Star Donald O'Connor, as "Blodthirsty Dave," does get to perform an entertaining song-and-dance routine, which makes the movie worth watching.
Helena Carter and Will Geer co-star.
© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLYWOOD
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Summary: these pirates know whats up!
Comment: You will find some wonderful arr arr films here! The funniest movie on it is "Double Crossbones". watch it to see what I mean!
If you like Pirates, you will like these films!
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Summary: Pirate Rip Off
Comment: A waste of money. Only the first movie is worth it. The others would have been the 2nd feature at the drive-in when you didn't care about the movie.
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Summary: Well, a mixed result in this collection....
Comment: Like in their Hammer Classics collection, Universal has attempted to assemble some of the most significant movies in their Swashbuckler vault section.
The result is kind of so-so. While "Against All Flags" and "Yankee Buccaneer" are the two more recognizable in this genre, starring respectively, an aging Errol Flynn (but not as tired looking as he would be later in "Roots of Heaven", "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Master of Ballantrae") in "AAF" and Jeff Chandler in "YB", the other two are just forgettable ones.
All four transfers are decent but still sport some minor scratches in the filmed material in itself, while the colors a vivid and sharp. Sound is all over in Mono. No further effort has been made to amplify a bit the width of sound (a pity in this kind of spectacles).
Anyway, for its price it is really a bargain and in our day and age, in which everything costs an eye and a leg, like in those long bygone pirate days, this collection is still worth your attention.
In any case such movies were still more entertaining than some crap we get dished up nowadays.
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