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ActionYear1986Duration2h 1mIMDb6.0

Pirates

ActionAdventureComedy

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Trailer

Cast

Roman Polanski

Director

Walter Matthau

Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red

Cris Campion

The Frog - Jean-Baptiste

Damien Thomas

Don Alfonso de la Torré

Olu Jacobs

Boomako

Ferdy Mayne

Captain Linares

David Kelly

Surgeon

Tony Peck

Spanish Officer

Anthony Dawson

Spanish Officer

RD

Richard Dieux

Spanish Officer

Jacques Maury

Spanish Officer

JS

José Santamaría

Master at Arms

Robert Dorning

Commander of Marines

LJ

Luc Jamati

Pepito Gonzalez

EF

Emilio Fernandez

Angelito

Wladyslaw Komar

Jesus

GT

Georges Trillat

Pockmarked Sailor

Richard Pearson

Padre

Charlotte Lewis

María-Dolores de la Jenya de la Calde

JB

John Brownjohn

Writer

Gérard Brach

Writer

Roman Polanski

Writer

Comments

5 Comments

Ayaan ShukriJun 15, 2025

I agree with many of the comments here, but most have opted to concentrate on Walter Matthau's (forgive the spelling if it's wrong) delicious performance as Captain Red. While it is undeniably brilliant - a few dodgy accent moments aside - especially when you consider how few risks many actors take with their casting, I would like to draw attention to a fine performance by Cris Campion as The Frog. When I was watching this again the other day and getting my girlfriend to watch it, she at first despaired when I told her the frog was the romantic lead. I told her to have patience, and at the end she could, after all, see why he was the object of Dolores' love. Head and shoulders above nearly all young actors around at the moment, Campion exudes passion, swashbuckling- derring-do and smouldering charm as well as being an excellent foil for Matthau's comic exertions. This makes his love story with Dolores all the more heightened and genuinely affecting. In many modern "buddy" films, the onscreen duo have no chemistry and are simply put together to maximise box office interest, but Matthau and Campion are a perfectly matched pair, the frog's unfaltering loyalty to his captain matching Red's utterly selfish backstabbing. You get the feeling that if there is one person in the world that Red would not betray, it might be the frog - even if he might eat him!

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