The Buccaneer (1938 film)

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The Buccaneer

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Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by Cecil B. DeMille
Starring Fredric March
Franciska Gaal
Akim Tamiroff
Margot Grahame
Walter Brennan
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of United States
Country USA
Language English
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The Buccaneer is a 1938 adventure film made by Paramount Pictures. It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie Macpherson from the novel Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon. The music score was by George Antheil and the cinematography by Victor Milner.

The film stars Fredric March, Franciska Gaal and Akim Tamiroff with Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith, Spring Byington, Douglass Dumbrille, Beulah Bondi and Anthony Quinn.

Cecil B. de Mille remade the film in 1958 in Technicolor and VistaVision with the same title, but because of ill health, he is credited as producer only and the film was directed by Anthony Quinn. The 1958 version stars Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom, with Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson. Douglas Dumbrille appeared in both versions.

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