Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection (1950)

Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime with four swashbuckling films in the Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection! Join unforgettable shipmates Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Yvonne DeCarlo and Donald O'Connor as they take to the high seas in search of boundless excitement and glorious treasure. Including the classic favorites Against All Flags, Buccaneer's Girl, Yankee Buccaneer and Double Crossbones, this is one must-own collection that will have you wanting to set sail again and again! AGAINST ALL FLAGS A British naval officer (Errol Flynn) is unjustly condemned for desertion and finds redemption with a rascally pirate captain (Anthony Quinn) and a beautiful buccaneer (Maureen O'Hara). BUCCANEER'S GIRL Love walks the plank when an ambitious New Orleans entertainer (Yvonne DeCarlo) discovers that the aristocratic playboy she's fallen for has a secret identity as a legendary pirate. YANKEE BUCCANEER "X" marks the spot where a U.S. commander (Jeff Chandler) must secretly infiltrate and stop a Caribbean colony of pirates and privateers before they send him plummeting to the depths of Davy Jones's locker. DOUBLE CROSSBONES When a bumbling shopkeeper's apprentice (Donald O'Connor) finds himself unfairly accused of a crime, he joins a motley crew of pirates and finds his true calling on the South Seas.

these pirates know whats up!

You will find some wonderful arr arr films here! The funniest movie on it is "Double Crossbones". watch it to see what I mean!

If you like Pirates, you will like these films! July 14, 2008

Pirate Rip Off

A waste of money. Only the first movie is worth it. The others would have been the 2nd feature at the drive-in when you didn't care about the movie. July 12, 2008

Well, a mixed result in this collection....

Like in their Hammer Classics collection, Universal has attempted to assemble some of the most significant movies in their Swashbuckler vault section.

The result is kind of so-so. While "Against All Flags" and "Yankee Buccaneer" are the two more recognizable in this genre, starring respectively, an aging Errol Flynn (but not as tired looking as he would be later in "Roots of Heaven", "The Sun Also Rises" and "The Master of Ballantrae") in "AAF" and Jeff Chandler in "YB", the other two are just forgettable ones.

All four transfers are decent but still sport some minor scratches in the filmed material in itself, while the colors a vivid and sharp. Sound is all over in Mono. No further effort has been made to amplify a bit the width of sound (a pity in this kind of spectacles).

Anyway, for its price it is really a bargain and in our day and age, in which everything costs an eye and a leg, like in those long bygone pirate days, this collection is still worth your attention.

In any case such movies were still more entertaining than some crap we get dished up nowadays. June 21, 2008

Good Collection of Swashbucklers

I bought this 4 movie set because I'm an Errol Flynn & Maureen Ohara Fan even though they were in only one movie: AGAINST ALL FLAGS --- this was a typical Flynn swashbuckler and this one movie was worth the price paid for the entire set. BUCCANEER'S GIRL & YANKEE BUCCANER were good movies while DOUBLE CROSSBONES was fair and seemed to be a low budget attempt at a swashbuckler. As a youngster I used to enjoy seeing Jeff Chandler but have not found many DVDs that feature him and seeing him in Yankee Buccaner was great . February 19, 2008

Against all Flags

The best of the movies on this video! Errol Flynn & Maureen O'hara great
Anthony Quinn also did fine. Too bad we dont' have more of Errol Flynn !
The story was alright but as usual Mr. Flynn did a great job! Too bad that he was not reconized in his life time as the great actor that he was I have seen him as different roles and find that I do enjoy his films.
The other videos were ok but I find myseld watching Against all Flags more than any other. Donald O'Connor was his usal self, funny!
Buccaneer's Girl was also enjoyable. November 3, 2007

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