The Ultimate Pirate Collection

Return to an age of cutthroat pirates who preyed upon unsuspecting merchant ships and aristocratic damsels. From "The Black Pirate" and "The Legend of Sea Wolf" to "Captain Kidd" and "Long John Silver's Return to Treasur Product Description

The Ultimate Pirate Collection is a winner!

The Ultimate Pirate Collection is not only a great collection of exciting sea-faring adventure movies, it is a study of the evolution of movies as they transformed themselves from silent to sound. Movie buffs will be fasinated with the production techniques used to craft these old films. They also deal with very interesting social and political situations that are very intersting to history buffs. Being both a history buff and a movie buff myself, I could not be happier with this collection. It's the best $8.47 I have spent for a long time.

August 29, 2008

The Ultimate Pirate Collection

This is a great DVD, filled with tons of old pirate-related TV shows and movies. A great collection for pirate buffs like myself! July 18, 2008

The Ultimate Pirate Collection

The only good part of the whole box set is the 14 Adventures of Long John Silver. I couldn't even get through most of the rest. I was born in the 70's not the 40's. I wouldn't even bother with collection if I was you. December 3, 2007

Avast!

One of the titles in this DVD box set is based on a Jack London story, and some of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" characters figure quite prominently here, as well. There's lots of high seas adventure in THE ULTIMATE PIRATES COLLECTION, including fourteen half-hour installments of the very first TV series made in Australia. ULTIMATE PIRATES gets a well-deserved 'G' rating (for 'G'reat fun). Or maybe this one should be rated "Arrrrrrr!"

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The following alphabetized list includes 1 to 10 poll numbers maintained at a film resource website, country of origin (if other than USA), years of release for each movie plus principal actors.

(7.3) The Black Pirate (silent-1926) - Douglas Fairbanks/Donald Crisp/Mary Pickford (cameo)
(6.3) Captain Kidd (1945) - Charles Laughton/Randolph Scott/Barbara Britton/John Carradine
(1.4) Colossus And The Headhunters (Italy-1960) - Kirk Morris/Laura Brown
(5.5) Corsair (1931) - Chester Morris/Thelma Todd/Ned Sparks
(4.3) Hell Ship Mutiny (1957) Jon Hall/John Carradine/Peter Lorre
(6.2) Jamaica Inn (UK-1939) - Charles Laughton/Maureen O'Hara/Robert Newton
(6.9) The Last Adventurers (UK-1937) - Niall MacGinnis/Roy Emerton/Linden Travers
(4.1) Law of the Sea (1931) - William Farnum/Priscilla Dean/Wally Albright
(4.0) Legend of the Sea Wolf (Italy-1975) - Chuck Connors/Barbara Bach/Rik Battaglia
(5.6) Long John Silver's Return To Treasure Island ("Long John Silver") (Australia-1955) - Robert Newton **
(4.7) Mutiny (1952) - Mark Stevens/Angela Lansbury/Patric Knowles
(5.5) The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937) - Paul Lukas/Lyn Harding/Kathleen Kelly
(4.8) Sea Devils (1931) - Edmund Burns/Molly O'Day/Walter Long
(5.9) Windjammer (1937) - George O'Brien/Constance Worth/William Hall

** (TV show episodes edited together)


PLUS:
The Adventures of Long John Silver (starring Robert Newton).
This was filmed in Australia in 1955-56, for export to the USA, where it aired a year later. "Long John Silver" eventually was screened in Australia starting in 1958. Series star Robert Newton died after only 26 episodes were completed thus bringing the show to its end.
(The original airdates below are for Australia.)

Dead Reckoning (2/20/59)
Devil's Stew (9/8/58)
Dragon Slayer (9/1/58)
The Eviction (6/30/59)
Execution Dock (3/3/59)
Miss Purity's Birthday (8/25/58)
The Necklace (7/7/58)
The Orphan's Christmas (12/23/58)
Pieces of Eight (? 1958)
The Pink Pearl (6/9/58)
The Ship O' the Dead (7/21/58)
Sword of Vengeance (3/17/59)
The Tale of the Tooth (6/16/58)
Turnabout (6/23/58) May 29, 2007

Ultimate Pirate Collection which some seemed not so piratey

It all came to me in one piece and the clarity was as good as one could get on a few of them that where extremely old.My husband is enjoying them.Seems like a good mix..I would recommend it to anyone that is a die-hard pirate fan if they dont mind some real oldies in here,like back in the 30's..a couple of movies though I questioned with they where in the category of pirates,though they where high seas adventure stories.It was worth the money. January 19, 2007

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