Posted in Mark of the Movie, Pirates of the Spanish Main on September 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yar! Ye be here for pirate movies three, do ye? Well, ye’ve come to the right place! Happy Talk like a Pirate Day!
This one be a long one. Three movies. Space Pirates! The Patron Saint of Talk Like a Pirate Day! Italian rebel scum! Ye’ve been warned, yeh scallywags!
Posted in Mark of the Movie, Pirates of the Spanish Main, Savage Worlds on September 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not only is International Talk Like A Pirate Day less than a week away, but this month marks the 13th (not really, but who’s counting?) Mark of the Movie column here! In any case this means I’ve been doing this for over a year with really only one hiccup in July when I got confused [...]
Posted in Mark of the Movie, Pirates of the Spanish Main, Savage Worlds on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Captain Calamity (1936)
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IMDB
Well as a musical it isn’t very good, and a lot of the movie is uneven. Editing, acting; It’s mediocre. But, there is a great plot here that would have benefited from a little more grit or edge. The synopsis at IMDB does this movie a disservice.
“In the South Seas, Bill Jones, captain [...]
Posted in Mark of the Movie, Pirates of the Spanish Main, Savage Worlds on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mutiny of the Elsinor (1939)
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I’m disappointed that the original from 1920 isn’t included in the collection, but…
1920 original
IMDB lists the year of the version I watched as 1937.
Based on a Jack London novel.
This one isn’t a pirate film either. An author who is transparently Jack London’s Mary Sue* has been booked on a passage by [...]
Posted in Pirates of the Spanish Main, Savage Worlds, Tabletop Archive on July 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Quite some time ago I talked a lot of talk about writing up Scooby’s gang as Pirates of the Spanish Main characters. Well, they’re done. There’s such a wealth of material to draw on here that the first question was where to start. As the project continued I drew inspiration from a number of sources [...]
Posted in Mark of the Movie, Pirates of the Spanish Main, Savage Worlds on June 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Sea Lion (1921)
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Aside from a nautical theme? No, this movie has nothing to do with pirates of any kind. It’s about a whaler.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0012657/
I think the review at IMDB is a little harsh, but I wouldn’t give it much more than 3 out of 5 myself. Some good camera work, but there is a fair [...]
Posted in Mark of the Movie, Pirates of the Spanish Main, Savage Worlds on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Black Pirate (1926)
“A certain pirate of the Spanish Main makes a practice of blowing up with all hands the ships he has looted. By a fluke, one man and his dying father survive such a disaster. Swearing vengeance, the son joins the pirates; soon, “the black pirate” swashbuckles his way into their black hearts, [...]
