Monday, December 12, 2022

Movie review - "Prince of Pirates" (1953) ***

 I watched this right after Thunderbirds and it was so much better - lively, full of colour, a very good Sam Katzman swashbuckler. John Derek is fine as a prince of some random country fighting Spain - he's a prince and the baddy is his elder brother who has inherited the throne. 

Barbara Rush has a decent part as the woman who goes along and takes part in the fighting.

Maybe it was a reaction to Thunderbirds but I really had a good time - animated, colourful, the cast are commiting, a tough enemy (there's a cut to a shot with two legs from a hanging corpse), Derek is animated, Rush is heaps of fun.

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