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Captain Kidd is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rowland V. Lee released in USA on 22 november 1945 with Charles Laughton
Captain Kidd (1945)
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Add to a movie listCaptain Kidd (1945) is a 1945 adventure film starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, and John Carradine, directed by Rowland V. Lee, produced by Benedict Bogeaus and James Nasser, music conducted by Werner Janssen, and released by United Artists. The film has entered the public domain since the producers neglected to renew the copyright in 1972. The film was featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia.
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In 1699, William Kidd (Charles Laughton), a pirate who has recently captured the ship The Twelve Apostles and killed its crew, presents himself at the court of King William III (Henry Daniell) as an honest shipmaster seeking royal backing. With this backing, he recruits a crew from the inmates of Newgate and Marshalsea prisons, promising them a royal pardon at the end of their voyage. Among the new recruits is the quarrelsome, though cultured Adam Mercy (Randolph Scott), whom Kidd makes his new master gunner because of his claimed prior service with a famous pirate.Actors
Charles Laughton
(Captain Kidd)
Randolph Scott
(Adam Mercy / Adam Blayne)
Barbara Britton
(Lady Anne Dunstan)
John Carradine
(Orange Povey)
Gilbert Roland
(Jose Lorenzo)
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