Arrrrr! Avast! Swab the Deck!
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Yes, that's right: it's Talk Like a Pirate Day. I don't know about
where you live, but the streets of Manhattan are currently overflowing with eye
patch-wearing, peg-legged citizens, and the air is full of joyous Arrr!s and Aye!s. Ok, maybe that's just my apartment.In celebration of this glorious day, I present to you a list of five perfect films to watch as you eat your pirate grub and drink your pirate grog.
- Captain Blood (1935) and The Sea Hawk (1940): There is no such thing as too much Errol Flynn (particularly when he's hanging out with Claude Rains).
- The Princess Bride (1987): Not really about pirates, per say, but the Dread Pirate Roberts is clearly crucial to the whole thing.
- Muppet Treasure Island (1996): Given the choice between multiple version of a given story, I make it a policy always to choose the one with muppets.
- Pirates of the Caribbean (2003): Johnny Depp at his Adam Ant/Keith Richards-channelling best.
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9-19-2005 @ 8:28AM
Peter Nellhaus said...
Ahoy, Martha - A quote from John Frankenheimer: "Nobody looked like Burt Lancaster in The Crimson Pirate." No Pirate Days here in Miami Beach, but I did drive by Parrot Island yesterday.
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