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Anne of the Indies (1951) -- The beautiful Pirate Captain Anne abducts, then sets free, a French naval officer and his wife, before redeeming herself in a battle with her arch enemy, Blackbeard.

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6.7/10   316 votes
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Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Writers:
Philip Dunne (screenplay) and
Arthur Caesar (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
18 October 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance more
Plot:
LaRochelle, a former pirate captain, is caught by the British. To get his ship back, he works as a spy against other pirates... more | add synopsis
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A decent pirate adventure drama more (14 total)

Cast

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Jean Peters ... Captain Anne Providence
Louis Jourdan ... Captain Pierre François LaRochelle
Debra Paget ... Molly LaRochelle
Herbert Marshall ... Dr. Jameson
Thomas Gomez ... Blackbeard
James Robertson Justice ... Red Dougal
Francis Pierlot ... Herkimer
Sean McClory ... Hackett
Holmes Herbert ... English Sea Captain
Byron Nelson ... Bear Handler
Douglas Bennett ... Bear Wrestler
Mario Siletti ... Slave Market Auctioneer
Robert R. Stephenson ... Tavern Host (as Bob Stephenson)
Carleton Young ... Pirate Mate
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Runtime:
81 min | USA:87 min (director's cut)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
West Germany:16 (f) | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation more

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Continuity: The direction of the rowing boat when Captain Blackbeard leaves the beach with his escort. (orientation changes too fast between shots hardly changing the position of the boat) more
Movie Connections:
Featured in L'orgia (1978) more
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A decent pirate adventure drama, 12 May 2003
7/10
Author: Ilya Mauter

Directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, Out of the Past, Night of the Demon) and written by Phillip Dunne (How Green was My Valley) Anne of the Indies is a quite interesting adventure pirate movie. Its main character of captain Anne Providence is based on a real woman-pirate Anne Boney who actually lived and sailed through 18th century's Atlantic.

The film begins with the sea battle where Anne's (Jean Peters) pirate ship attacks a trade ship that was on its way to Europe from the South America. As a result a treasure of great value is captured along with a handsome French officer Pierre La Rochelle (Louis Jourdan), who is taken prisoner. Anne ends up falling in love with him and apparently her feelings are reciprocated but it's only till she sets him free when she discovers that he has a beautiful young wife Molly (Debra Paget) with whom he pretty much in love with. Anne begins planning revenge on both of them but in an unexpected twist of fate ends up making a great sacrifice in order to save them instead. The pirate movie cliché figure of `Black Beard' also makes his appearance here, this time played by Thomas Gomez.

Though Anne of the Indies probably appears to be no more nor less than a revisiting of pirate movie clichés, it still has its classical moments in beautiful visuals and sea battle sequences filmed in Technicolor as well as in some aspects of the story and most of all in personal touches in directing of all of it by Jacques Tourneur. 7/10

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