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Yankee Buccaneer (1952)

Yankee Buccaneer poster
Directed by
Fred de Cordova
Genre
swashbuckler film, adventure film, romance film, pirate film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In the early 1800s, a US Navy officer and his crew pretend to be pirates to hunt down real pirates. The film follows their undercover mission on the high seas.

swashbucklingadventurousplayfullight-heartedcolorfulfast-pacedruggedderring-do

What happens

Yankee Buccaneer is a 1952 American technicolor adventure film directed by Frederick de Cordova and starring Jeff Chandler as a US Navy officer fighting pirates, and Scott Brady and Suzan Ball. Distributed by Universal-International and produced by Howard Christie, it was shot in Technicolor and was released on September 16. The story is set in the early 19th century and tells of Commander David Porter and his men going undercover as pirates to fight piracy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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