The Boy and the Pirates

The Boy and the Pirates (1960)

Boy Against Buccaneer!

Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.

Date of release
1960-04-13
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Director
Bert I. Gordon

Casting

Interesting facts

The Boy and the Pirates is a 1960 American adventure film directed by Bert I. Gordon, known as a master of giant monster films. It stars a popular child star Charles Herbert and Gordon's daughter Susan Gordon. The storyline concerns Jimmy Warren and Katrina Van Keif, a boy and girl trapped on Blackbeard's pirate ship.

Production

Charles Herbert recalled: "Timothy Carey on this movie probably scared me more than The Colossus of New York! But he was a nice man, and he always tried to make you feel, 'I'm not really crazy,' and you would say, 'Okay.' And then he would walk away and you'd go, 'He's CRAZY!' He was a scary man. He'd look at me and I would run behind my mother. And I had to catch up to her, because she was tryin' to find somebody else to hide behind!"

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