The Buccaneer (1938)
February 4, 1938Release Date
The Buccaneer (1938)
February 4, 1938Release Date
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Fredric March
Jean Lafitte
Franziska Gaal
Gretchen
Akim Tamiroff
Dominique You
Margot Grahame
Annette de Remy
Walter Brennan
Ezra Peavey
Ian Keith
Sen. Crawford
Anthony Quinn
Beluche
Douglass Dumbrille
Gov. William C.C. Claiborne
Beulah Bondi
Aunt Charlotte
Robert Barrat
Capt. Brown
Lyle Saxon
Writer
Fred Kohler
Gramby (as Fred Hohler Sr.)
Cecil B. DeMille
Director
Hugh Sothern
General Andrew Jackson
John Rogers
Mouse
Edwin Justus Mayer
Writer
Hans Steinke
Tarsus
Harold Lamb
Writer
C. Gardner Sullivan
Writer
Stanley Andrews
Collector of the Port
Jeanie Macpherson
Writer
Spring Byington
Dolly Madison
Montagu Love
Admiral Cockburn
George Antheil
Composer
Eric Stanley
General Ross
Victor Milner
Cinematographer
Gilbert Emery
Captain Lockyer
Holmes Herbert
Captain McWilliams
Anne Bauchens
Editor
Evan Thomas
Sir Harry Smith
Michael Brooke
Lieutenant Rogers
Thaddeus Jones
John Freeman, a Servant
Reginald Sheffield
Ship's Surgeon
Eugene Jackson
James Smith, a Servant
Davison Clark
Colonel Butler
Ivan Miller
Commodore
Louise Campbell
Marie de Remy
John Hubbard
Charles (as Jack Hubbard)
Evelyn Keyes
Madeleine
Lina Basquette
Roxanne
Luana Walters
Suzette
Barry Norton
Villere
Alex Hill
Scipio
George H. Reed
Nicodemus, a Servant
Alphonse Martell
Major Latour
Frank Melton
Lieutenant Shreve
Ted Oliver
Fish Hook
Avril Cameron
Mrs. Claibourne
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Details.
Release DateFebruary 4, 1938
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 6m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsNew Orleans, United States
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The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures starring Fredric March and based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The picture 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 1930 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 as Lafitte, Franciska Gaal and Akim Tamiroff with Margot Grahame, Walter Brennan, Ian Keith, Spring Byington, Douglass Dumbrille, Beulah Bondi and Anthony Quinn in supporting roles.
It is one of the few pre-1950 sound films by Paramount to remain under that studio's ownership (partly so the remake could be filmed), whereas most films from that era had been sold to EMKA, Ltd. (now part of NBCUniversal Television Distribution) in the early television era.
Cecil B. DeMille remade the film in 1958 in Technicolor and VistaVision with the same title, but because of ill health, he allowed Henry Wilcoxon, his longtime friend and associate, to produce it, and the film was directed by Anthony Quinn, who was his son-in-law at the time. DeMille received no screen credit, but did make a personal appearance in the prologue to the film, much as he did in The Ten Commandments two years prior. The 1958 version of The Buccaneer stars Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom, with Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson. Douglass Dumbrille appeared in both versions and Quinn acted in the earlier version.