The Crimson Pirate is a 1952 film directed by Robert Siodmak. The color film stars Burt Lancaster as "The Crimson Pirate" Capt. Vallo. The film centers around Vallo and his equally acrobatic side kick Ojo (Nick Cravat). Ojo is mute in the film because Cravat had a thick East Coast accent. Image File history File links Crimsonpirate. ... Image File history File links Crimsonpirate. ... // Events February 20 - The film The African Queen opens (Capitol Theater in New York City). ... Robert Siodmak (August 8, 1900 - March 10, 1973) was a film director born in Memphis, Tennessee (sometimes his birthplace is stated as Dresden, Germany). ... Burt Lancaster Burt Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor. ... A masked Cravat (right) on an episode of The Twilight Zone Nick Cravat (January 11, 1912 - January 29, 1994) was an American film actor. ...
A pirate is one who robs, pillages, or plunders at sea, or sometimes the shore, without a commission from a recognized sovereign nation.
Pirates readily accepted outcasts from traditional societies, perhaps easily recognizing kindred spirits, and they were known to free slaves from slave ships and welcome them into the pirate fold.
Pirates and other mariners would also sometimes be blinded in one eye through the use of a sextant.
Pirates with commissions from a government are called privateers or corsairs, which in modern Arabic is قرصان from the Turkish Korsan, which seems to have been derived from the European word, which in turn comes from the mediaeval Latin cursa, "raid, expedition, inroad".
Pirates are a popular modern representation of rebellious, clever teams who operate outside the restricting bureaucracy of modern life.
Pirates of the Caribbean, the Disneyland ride, also spawned the 2003 movie vaguely based on the ride, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, which introduced the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp.
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