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Title: Cutthroat Island (1995)
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| Geena Davis | ... | ||
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| Frank Langella | ... |
Dawg
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| Maury Chaykin | ... |
John Reed
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| Patrick Malahide | ... |
Ainslee
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| Stan Shaw | ... |
Glasspoole
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| Rex Linn | ... |
Mr. Blair
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| Paul Dillon | ... |
Snelgrave
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| Christopher Masterson | ... |
Bowen
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Jimmie F. Skaggs | ... |
Scully
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| Harris Yulin | ... |
Black Harry
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Carl Chase | ... |
Bishop
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Angus Wright | ... |
Captain Trotter
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Toussant
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Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by her murderous uncle, Dawg. Her crew is skeptical of her leadership abilities, so she must complete her quest before they mutiny against her. This is made yet more difficult by the efforts of the British crown to end her piratical raids. Written by Stern
The film opens in Jamaican coast in 1668…
While the Port Royal governor wants so badly the lady pirate, Morgan Adams, and will pay well for her, Dawg Brown (Frank Langella) was grabbing Morgan's father Black Harry (Harris Yulin) to take the first piece of a map (split into three separate pieces) to Cutthroat Island, where a treasure of a Spanish gold ship is said to be buried there…
Each of the other sections of the map is held by Morgan's two uncles: Dawg—the bad pirate who doesn't want to share the treasure—has the second piece stolen from a now-deceased brother, and Mordachai holds the third at Spittlefied Harbor…
So to seek the Spanish Treasure and to avenge her father's death, Morgan (Geena Davis) has to join with her uncle Mordachai and fight her murderous uncle to obtain the third part of the map…
The governor of the island (Patrick Malahide) offers Morgan two alternatives: One, an ignominious death on the gallows or she might cut him in for a share of her grandfather's treasure…
At the slave market, Morgan was looking for a man who can read Latin… So she picked a handsome convict who passes himself off as a physician with a natural pitch for music and a perfect taste in wine… His name was William Shaw (Matthew Modine).
If you enjoy Seventeenth Century pirate movies, and like to see how 92 million dollars were spent in sea-battles, rope-swinging, slow motion swashbuckling action, cannons with many explosions and many fires, plenty of rum, cove and cliffs, lots of treasure, the destruction of two Jamaican towns, gorgeous ocean vistas and breathtaking visuals … don't miss this one!