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Plot summary
Pirate William Kidd seizes the English galleon The Twelve Apostles and hides the plunder on a remote island. In London he presents himself to William III as an honest shipmaster seeking a privateering commission, and the king believes his account of a pirate who fled with the treasure. Kidd fills his crew with men facing execution in Newgate and Marshalsea, offering a royal pardon once the voyage is done. One of them, the quarrelsome Adam Mercy, becomes master gunner.
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- Keith Hitchcockas (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Captain Kidd (1945)
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- Nikita Khrushchev wrote in his memoirs that Captain Kidd was one of Joseph Stalin's favorite films, and that the Soviet leader identified with the mischievous pirate captain.
- The shipboard scenes were shot at the General Service Studio using a boat that had originally been built for The Black Swan and had already been used in The Princess and the Pirate.
- The 1945 adventure film Captain Kidd has entered the public domain because its producers neglected to renew the copyright in 1972.
