The Buccaneer is a 1958 film shot in technicolor about a Privateer named Jean Laffite and how he helped in the Battle of New Orleans. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Technicolor is a three-strip color film process pioneered in the 1930s by the Technicolor Corporation, a company created by the husband-and-wife team of Herbert and Natalie Kalmus. ... For other uses of the name, see Battle of New Orleans (disambiguation) In the Battle of New Orleans of the War of 1812, the United States forces defeated the British on January 8, 1815. ...
Starring Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson (portayed in the movie as a "General" when he was really only a colonel during the battle) and Yul Brynner as Jean Laffite. Charlton Heston (born October 4, 1924), born John Charles Carter, is an American film actor noted for heroic roles. ... Yul Brynner (July 7, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an actor born in Vladivostok, Russia who appeared in many movies and stage productions. ...
Heston also starred in various science fiction films and disaster films, some of which, like Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, Earthquake and The Omega Man, were hugely successful at the time of their release and have since become cult classics.
In the film, he plays an elderly, dying ape who introduces arms to his species by giving a rifle to another of the planet's inhabitants, perhaps as a nod to his then-current role in the National Rifle Association.
Charlton Heston is the chairman and co-founder of Agamemnon Films.
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