When I read this post, I knew it sounded familiar. For us down in the bayou, The Buccaneer movie is about pirate Jean Lafitte.
Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson.
The star is Yul Brynner.
This movie could be called sort of a sequel to The President's Lady only because Charlton Heston played Andrew Jackson in this movie as well.
You are very correct
There are actually two versions of this movie made 20 years apart. They were both based on a novel titled: "Lafitte the pirate" I saw the 1958 version in the theater when it came out. I would have been 12 or 13 at the time. I have seen both it and the earlier version on TV several times. I believe Turner Classic Movies has the rights to both. Cecil B. Demille co-produced the 1958 version, which was directed by Anthony Quinn. Demille both produced and directed the 1938 black and white version with Quinn having a supporting role as one of Lafitte's captains. Frederick March played Lafitte in the first version.
Since both movies have almost the same screenplay they have a ton of historical inaccuracies, but are mildly entertaining. The first version has a short scene about the burning of Washington and the White house by the British (in retribution of the US burning York when they invaded Canada) That turned out to be the only clip of the first movie I could find. It's kind of interesting in that it retells the story of Dolly Madison supposedly saving both the portrait of George Washington and a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Here's a trailer for the 2nd movie with Demille himself promoting the flick at the TCM site. Something you just don't see now a days.
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or your men's curling team........sad folks up here in the Great White North
The American men curling team was given gold medals saying WOMAN on them.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
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Might as well throw in the German men’s hockey team as well.
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