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The Pirate Movie is a 1982 Australian musical romantic comedy film directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol.Loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, the original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan (no relation to Pirates of Penzance composer Arthur Sullivan).
This is a list of pirate films and TV series, primarily in the pirate film genre, about the Golden Age of Piracy from the 17th through 18th centuries. The list includes films about other periods of piracy, TV series, and films tangentially related, such as pirate-themed pornographic films.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Hilary Knight's 1996 portrait of Kay Thompson for Vanity Fair. Kay Thompson (born Catherine Louise Fink; November 9, 1909 [1] – July 2, 1998) was an American author, singer, vocal arranger, vocal coach, composer, musician, dancer, actress, and choreographer.
The Pirate is a 1978 American two-part, four-hour television miniseries directed by Ken Annakin. It is based on the 1974 novel with the same title written by Harold Robbins . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was broadcast in two parts by CBS on November 21–22, 1978.
Fast X (2023) The Furious films are winding to a close, with potentially only two movies left before the franchise calls it a wrap. This first of the two is set to premiere in May 2023 with many ...
Pirate films had gone out of fashion with major Hollywood studios since the 1950s, due in part to their high cost. The success of The Three Musketeers (1973) showed that there was still an appetite for swashbucklers , so original producer Eliot Kastner prepared a pirate script where most of the action took place on shore.
It was inspired by Polanski's love of classic pirate films, as well as Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Polanski began planning the film in 1976 as a follow-up to Chinatown, but production was delayed several times due to lack of funding and Polanski's fleeing the United States to avoid sentencing for his confessed rape of a minor