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Release Date:
4 February 1938 (USA) moreTagline:
The most thrilling war scenes ever filmed! morePlot:
Semi-fictional account of pirate Jean Lafitte's involvement in the War of 1812. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. moreUser Comments:
Cecil B. DeMille's The Buccaneer is a rousing historical epic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Fredric March | ... | Jean Lafitte | |
| Franciska Gaal | ... | Gretchen | |
| Akim Tamiroff | ... | Dominique You | |
| Margot Grahame | ... | Annette de Remy | |
| Walter Brennan | ... | Ezra Peavey | |
| Ian Keith | ... | Senator Crawford | |
| Spring Byington | ... | Dolly Madison | |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Governor William C.C. Claiborne | |
| Robert Barrat | ... | Captain Brown | |
| Hugh Sothern | ... | General Andrew Jackson | |
| Beulah Bondi | ... | Aunt Charlotte | |
| Anthony Quinn | ... | Beluche | |
| Louise Campbell | ... | Marie de Remy | |
| Montagu Love | ... | Admiral Cockburn | |
| Eric Stanley | ... | General Ross |
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125 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)MOVIEmeter: 
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Editors Anne Bauchens and Hans Lubitsch spent three months editing the movie after principal photography was completed. moreSoundtrack:
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Having just moved back to Baton Rouge, La. in 2003 after living in Jacksonville, Fla. for the previous 16 years, I started getting reacquainted with the history of the state I had first lived much of my life from age 7 to 19. One of those sources was from this Cecil B. DeMille account of Louisiana's pirate-hero Jean Lafitte. It was he and his men who helped General Andrew Jackson with his troops defeat the British at The Battle of New Orleans. This was in exchange for a full pardon for him and his men after originally getting a price on his head from the Governor of The Pelican State. Fredric March makes a dashing Lafitte with Akim Tamiroff splendid as his sidekick Dominique. Margot Grahame is Lafitte's fiancée while Franciska Gaal is the Dutch girl Gretchen who falls for Jean after walking the plank from another ship that was lead by a man who betrayed Lafitte. Walter Brennan is funny here as Peavey, a sidekick to General Jackson (Hugh Sothern). Watch what happens when he and Tamiroff have a scene together! Because of some of the accents and the speed of some of the dialogue, I couldn't understand everything that was said but most of the time it was the action that got to me, especially when the American military men initially were attacking Lafitte's men as they were about to welcome them. Grahame and Gaal had their own feminine charms that made either one good chemistry with March so whichever one ended up with him would have been fine. I think I've said enough so I'll just say for anyone who loves a good old-fashioned story with some history thrown in, I highly recommend Cecil B. DeMille's The Buccaneer.