Blackbeard the Pirate

Blackbeard the Pirate is a 1952 Technicolor swashbuckler loosely based on the life and legend of Blackbeard.

Directed by Raoul Walsh. Written by Alan Le May, based on a story by DeVallon Scott.

Quotes

• There was a jolly miller.
    He lived upon the Dee.
  He looked beneath his pillar,
    And there he saw a flea.
  Ho-ho, ho-ho, he-he, he-he,
    He chuckled in his glee.
  • Blackbeard

• Chuck the wench out of 'ere!
  • Blackbeard

• Worley, man the guns!
  • Blackbeard

• Arrr, my glist'nin' darlin's... Here, lock 'em up.
  • Blackbeard [of his plunder]

• Gilly, Gilly, give him just a tickle with the point of your blade, at about his liver.
  • Blackbeard

• You slimy coward! You'd make the flesh crawl on a squid!
  • Edwina Mansfield [to Blackbeard]

• So that's it! The black-hearted butcher. He thinks he can hoodwink old Henry Morgan, well that's a game at which two can play. He might run from me... but he wouldn't run from the sight of a rich, Spanish galleon! So I think we'll have some devilment tonight in the Nicholas Channel. We'll take that galleon!... and use it as a bait for Blackbeard. When he closes on her, he'll find himself outgunned, outfought, outwitted, and dead as mutton! Come on, let's be at it!
  • Sir Henry Morgan

Dialogue

Blackbeard: What be your name, girl?

Edwina Mansfield: Blackbeard!

Blackbeard: No, I be Blackbeard.

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Blackbeard: Worley, come here. I believe I'm gonna catch me a rat!

Ben Worley: What for, you hungry?

External links

• "Blackbeard, The Pirate (1952)", Internet Archive (2017-10-03)