Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

Burt Lancaster
as Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)

Nick Cravat
as Ojo

Eva Bartok
as Consuelo

Torin Thatcher
as Humble Bellows

James Hayter
as Prof. Prudence

Leslie Bradley
as Baron Jose Gruda

Margot Grahame
as Bianca

Noel Purcell
as Pablo Murphy

Frederick Leister
as Sebastian

Eliot Makeham
as Governor
CinemaSerf
This is a great little vehicle for an almost 40 year-old Burt Lancaster to demonstrate his star quality (and not inconsiderable athleticism) alongside his long time friend and fellow acrobat Nick Cravat in this really quite enjoyable swashbuckler. The plot is all pretty routine stuff; pirate versus ...