Pirates (1986) on Netflix
PG-1319862h 1mActionAdventureComedy
In 1659, the pirate Captain Red and his young companion Jean-Baptiste are stranded on a raft. A Spanish galleon takes them in, and Red covets the golden Aztec throne in its hold.
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- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb6.0/1010,268 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes27%
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Plot summary
The Spanish galleon Neptune pulls two castaways from the Atlantic in 1659: the aging English pirate Captain Red and Jean-Baptiste, a young sailor called Frog. In the brig they meet Boomako, the cook, jailed on a charge of poisoning the ship's captain, and learn that a golden Aztec throne is being carried in the hold. Red decides to seize it. Frog falls for Maria-Dolores, the niece of Maracaibo's governor and a passenger on the voyage. When the captain dies, command passes to his first mate, Don Alfonso de la Torré, who also wants Maria-Dolores, though she does not return his feelings. Put to work with the crew, Red and Frog try to start a mutiny.
Cast
- Wladyslaw Komaras Jesus
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pirates (1986)
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- Roman Polanski wanted Jack Nicholson to play the pirate Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red, with Polanski himself as Red's sidekick, but Nicholson's huge fee demands stalled it; asked what he wanted, Nicholson replied, "I want more."
- The film's full-scale galleon, the Neptune, was built in a Tunisian shipyard at Port El Kantaoui beside studios constructed for the production. Fitted with a steel hull and a 400 HP engine, it remains on the Tunisian naval registry and is now a tourist attraction in Genoa, where its interior can be visited for 6 euros.
- Michael Caine was attached as the lead by February 1984 but was out by April, when Rob Lowe was being discussed as his sidekick; eventually Walter Matthau took the lead and Cris Campion, a French rock drummer, signed as his sidekick.
- Polanski wanted Isabelle Adjani for the female lead in Pirates, and when production was postponed he made The Tenant instead, rewriting it for her.
