- Blackbeard the Pirate
Infobox Film | name = Blackbeard the Pirate
caption = DVD Cover for French film version
director =Raoul Walsh
producer =
writer =Alan Le May
starring =Robert Newton Linda Darnell William Bendix
Keith Andes Torin Thatcher
music =
cinematography = William E. Snyder
editing =
distributor =RKO
released = flagicon|USA25 December 1952
runtime = 99 min
country =USA
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language = English
budget =
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imdb_id = 0044426"Blackbeard the Pirate" is a 1952
adventure film made byRKO . The movie was directed byRaoul Walsh and produced byEdmund Grainger from ascreenplay byAlan Le May based on the story by DeVallon Scott.The movie follows Edward Maynard, who sets out to earn a reward by proving that
privateer Henry Morgan also engages in piracy. Maynard, however, winds up posing as a surgeon on a ship captained byBlackbeard , who is in the middle of a conflict with Morgan. Blackbeard must deal with Morgan, Maynard, and even his own greedy crew.The film stars
Robert Newton andLinda Darnell withWilliam Bendix ,Keith Andes ,Torin Thatcher ,Alan Mowbray andRichard Egan .External links
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