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Welcome back to our vintage cinema archive, your ultimate destination for high-quality digital restorations of classic Hollywood films. Today, we invite you to set sail for a legendary tale of piracy, betrayal, and royal intrigue in the magnificent 1945 maritime adventure masterpiece, Captain Kidd.
Directed by Rowland V. Lee, this acclaimed film stars the incomparable Academy Award winner Charles Laughton as the notorious, unprincipled, and cunning pirate captain William Kidd. The gripping story begins in 1699, when the ruthless Kidd successfully cons the King of England into granting him a royal commission to escort a treasure-laden galleon safely back from the East Indies. Operating under the guise of an honorable gentleman, Kidd secretly recruits a rough crew of cutthroats from Newgate Prison with plans to seize the treasure for himself. However, his meticulous scheme hits a major obstacle in Adam Mercy (Randolph Scott), a skilled new crew member who is secretly a nobleman seeking vengeance against Kidd for a past crime. Alongside the beautiful Lady Barbara Falcon (Barbara Britton), a dangerous game of survival and deception unfolds on the high seas.
Featuring exceptional dialogue, intense maritime action, and a powerhouse performance by Charles Laughton, Captain Kidd remains a definitive golden age cinematic classic. Our channel is proudly dedicated to preserving historic cinema treasures, offering a curated library of classic sea adventures, timeless swashbuckler films, vintage westerns, rare b-movies, and gritty film noir classics.
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Directed by Rowland V. Lee, this acclaimed film stars the incomparable Academy Award winner Charles Laughton as the notorious, unprincipled, and cunning pirate captain William Kidd. The gripping story begins in 1699, when the ruthless Kidd successfully cons the King of England into granting him a royal commission to escort a treasure-laden galleon safely back from the East Indies. Operating under the guise of an honorable gentleman, Kidd secretly recruits a rough crew of cutthroats from Newgate Prison with plans to seize the treasure for himself. However, his meticulous scheme hits a major obstacle in Adam Mercy (Randolph Scott), a skilled new crew member who is secretly a nobleman seeking vengeance against Kidd for a past crime. Alongside the beautiful Lady Barbara Falcon (Barbara Britton), a dangerous game of survival and deception unfolds on the high seas.
Featuring exceptional dialogue, intense maritime action, and a powerhouse performance by Charles Laughton, Captain Kidd remains a definitive golden age cinematic classic. Our channel is proudly dedicated to preserving historic cinema treasures, offering a curated library of classic sea adventures, timeless swashbuckler films, vintage westerns, rare b-movies, and gritty film noir classics.
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00:00:00The End
00:01:12Madagascar, for centuries the bloodiest cockpit of all the seas, where the infamous brotherhood
00:01:18of the damned waited to plunder the treasure-laden galleons from India and Cathay, then returned
00:01:24drunk with slaughter to their pirate stronghold of last hope.
00:01:28Most ruthless of all was Captain William Kidd.
00:01:31He encountered the great London galleon, the Twelve Apostles, commanded by Admiral Lord
00:01:36Blaine, and approaching unsuspected in the guise of a peaceful merchantman, by a sudden
00:01:42treacherous salvo he reduced her to a burning hulk.
00:01:46When night fell, the Twelve Apostles was only a blazing funeral pyre on the placid surface
00:01:52of a Madagascar lagoon.
00:01:55Stap me, there's a pretty sight.
00:01:59It'll be prettier still when the fire reaches the magazine, Captain.
00:02:02Pretty, though.
00:02:03Lots of stout seamen among them.
00:02:05They've been with us a long time.
00:02:07We can none of us live forever, Mr. Boyle.
00:02:10Dead men don't talk.
00:02:11Man your oars.
00:02:12We've got this job to do before high tide.
00:02:15We've got this job to do before high tide.
00:03:03There, and dig fast.
00:03:05If the tide catches there, it'll save the King's hangman some rope.
00:03:18There you are.
00:03:20Deep enough to bury a man in.
00:03:22Give us a half head.
00:03:24All ready, Captain.
00:03:26Down she goes.
00:03:34What are you waiting for?
00:03:36Well, Captain, that chest's been in cabin a longish time.
00:03:39And we all thought as I would wouldn't do no harm to open up that chest and make sure
00:03:42that what was in it then is in it now.
00:03:45I suppose you remember what was in it?
00:03:48I remember an emerald necklace that came off that Portiki ship, El Vengar.
00:03:52And all those pearls that we took from the big ship, the Virgin Queen.
00:03:57I remember a diamond medallion we got from that Morish galleon off Madagascar.
00:04:02And could we ever forget that silver casket with the arms of Lord Blaine that you claimed
00:04:06for yourself after the taking of the Twelve Apostles, sir?
00:04:09Your neck will be stretched as long as your memory one of these days.
00:04:30Satisfied?
00:04:31Gallows?
00:04:31Meat?
00:04:32Put them back.
00:04:46Lower away.
00:05:07What's the matter?
00:05:09Wait a minute, Captain.
00:05:10There's something else you've forgotten.
00:05:11What do you want now?
00:05:12We've got but half an hour before the tide traps us.
00:05:14That's as may be, sir.
00:05:15We're all equal in this, I take it.
00:05:17Equal shares, yes.
00:05:18Well, that key then, what you put back in your belt.
00:05:21That goes down with the chest.
00:05:22Thus we start, it's all clear and no favors.
00:05:25And if some of us don't get back, it'll be that much easier open for them as does.
00:05:29Question me on it again, would you?
00:05:31I'll rip you from belly to chime.
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00:05:59without commending his soul to his new master.
00:06:07Here lieth one who through treachery and avarice
00:06:12would have placed in jeopardy the lives of honest men.
00:06:17And here may he lie forever in the sands of Madagascar.
00:06:23Rest in peace.
00:06:28It's time to be out, my lad. It's time to be away.
00:06:52If a gentleman's a gentleman, he's a gentleman.
00:06:55That's all there is to it, sir.
00:06:56I'm one of nature's, gentleman, but I need polish, my good man.
00:07:00If I'm to improve myself...
00:07:01The gentleman employs the terminology, my good man,
00:07:04only when addressing lower servants.
00:07:07Or his inferior, sir.
00:07:08You see, that's why I need you.
00:07:11And my upbringing...
00:07:13The gentleman never sucks his teeth, sir.
00:07:16Many a man's social career has been ruined by less, sir.
00:07:19You seem to know your business.
00:07:21I want the best mind and I can pay for it.
00:07:24A hundred quid a year.
00:07:25An infallible mark of a person of quality
00:07:28is his reluctance to pay his domestics high wages.
00:07:31Don't say so.
00:07:32Merely an idiosyncrasy of good breeding, sir.
00:07:35A hundred quid a year, then?
00:07:39You realize I've never been on board a ship before, sir.
00:07:42Oh, don't let that frighten you.
00:07:44To the contrary.
00:07:45In fact, since I was a nipper,
00:07:47I've had rather an adventurous inclination
00:07:49toward life on the bound in mine.
00:07:52It should be quite educational, sir.
00:07:54You'll learn a lot, no doubt.
00:07:56Is it a bargain, then?
00:07:58Very well, sir.
00:08:00My hand on it?
00:08:02Oh.
00:08:05Oh.
00:08:41Dan?
00:08:42Dan?
00:08:42Dan?
00:08:45Dan?
00:08:55Then, it is your proposal, my Lord Bellarmint, that Captain Kidd sail to meet our ambassador, Lord Falsworth,
00:09:03and give him a safe convoy through the parrot waters of Madagascar.
00:09:06May it please your majesty, yes.
00:09:09That needs a bold and adventurous man.
00:09:12Yes.
00:09:12Bring in this Captain Kidd, while we take the measure of him.
00:09:21Captain William Kidd.
00:09:32Your Royal Majesty.
00:09:35Menable Lordson.
00:09:40Belmont, is this your roaring killer of Spanish buccaneers?
00:09:45Me, my lad.
00:09:45I am only a peaceful shipmaster who must do trade with other ships without inquiring too closely about their business,
00:09:52and it was so I fell into the hands of the Twelve Apostles, a king's ship turned pirate.
00:09:58In Madagascar waters?
00:09:59I have never been in Madagascar waters, your grace.
00:10:02It was off the southern tip of Africa where I had gone to trade in elephant's teeth.
00:10:08Who commanded her?
00:10:09One of your admirals, your majesty.
00:10:13Name of Lord Blaine.
00:10:15He did turn pirate then.
00:10:17Sufficiently, me lad, to put fear in honest traders like myself.
00:10:23And if you are successful in this voyage, Captain, what reward do you expect?
00:10:28May it please your majesty, having forfeited me honour in that I was forced to strike me callous to a
00:10:33pirate.
00:10:33I want no reward but to regain it in the service of your majesty.
00:10:39Unless it be, or is it true, that Lord Blaine's lands are restricted in his title forfeit?
00:10:47Yes.
00:10:47All I ask is that if I lay this renegade nobleman by the heels,
00:10:55is that you honour the humble self with his castle and his lands?
00:11:03Is that all you want, Captain Kidd?
00:11:06Not a farden more, your majesty.
00:11:10The fellow treats of a title so lightly he must be bursting with noble blood,
00:11:15though I confess he keeps it well hid.
00:11:17Aye, sir, you can no more judge of a man by his appearance
00:11:20than you can judge the extent of a nobleman's brains by the expensiveness of his wits.
00:11:27Am I to suppose that the captain of the Kingsguard would deign to fence with me?
00:11:39Come, Captain. Is your courage less than your wit?
00:11:42Nay, sir, I know nothing of fence.
00:11:46Yes. You must come at me quickly as though you'd kill me.
00:11:51Very well, then.
00:11:56I ask pardon, sire.
00:11:58I have a hot head when roused.
00:11:59I only meant to demonstrate.
00:12:01And to good purpose, Captain.
00:12:09Your majesty is satisfied with the captain of our choosing?
00:12:12I can think of none better.
00:12:14Aye, thank you, sir.
00:12:18And now, Captain, the main mission of your cruise will be to meet a great ship,
00:12:24the Cuida merchant, which is sailing from India with vast treasures,
00:12:27and to give her safe conduct in my name past the pirate waters of Madagascar.
00:12:33But your majesty, will her commander accept me letter of mark a sufficient authority to...
00:12:39You shall have a letter to our ambassador, Lord Falsworth, who is returning in her,
00:12:43that he is to accept your protection,
00:12:45and to submit to all matters pertaining to the safety of the ship and her treasure, sire.
00:12:52Oh, yes.
00:12:54And now, sire, me crew.
00:12:58Your crew?
00:12:59Captain Kidd wishes to recruit a crew from the pirates,
00:13:03and now under capital sentence in Newgate and the Marshall Sea.
00:13:07A crew of condemned pirates?
00:13:10Aye, sir.
00:13:11Thus none would be so loyal,
00:13:13nor fight so desperate as cutthroats under sentence of death,
00:13:18if they knew that at the end of the voyage,
00:13:21a royal pardon would be in their pockets.
00:13:26But I shall hold you accountable for their good conduct.
00:13:29Between their conduct and mine, your majesty,
00:13:32there will be little to choose.
00:13:34And now, goodbye.
00:13:37And Godspeed you.
00:13:39I am but his unworthy sparrow.
00:14:17I'd rather eat the bilge scum from an African slaver.
00:14:20Adam, don't let that temper get you the lash again.
00:14:22If I must hang, I'll hang.
00:14:24But I'll go to the gallows with clean guts, at least.
00:14:26Hey, you!
00:14:27What kind of stinking maggot's meat is this?
00:14:30Waters! Waters!
00:14:31There's that dainty, crumbed Mercy
00:14:32complaining about the taste of the king's bounty again.
00:14:35Watch it.
00:14:36Bounty! Bounty me, I!
00:14:37The king's allowance is thruppence a day for food,
00:14:39not mucked from the sewers of Whitechapel!
00:14:41Making trouble again, eh, Mercy?
00:14:43I'm asking only what the man's legally entitled to.
00:14:46Here, smell this!
00:14:50Delicious!
00:15:06Hey, your governor!
00:15:07What sort of a kingdom is this?
00:15:09Where a man's condemned before he's heard
00:15:12and starved before they hang him!
00:15:13Who's that quarrelsome fellow?
00:15:15Adam Mercy.
00:15:16He was taken in a pilotship by His Majesty's frigate, Wasp.
00:15:19He's always escaping, so that's why we keep him in chains.
00:15:22He's got a lacing of tiger's blood in him.
00:15:27Poof!
00:15:29This ain't exactly a flower garden, is it?
00:15:32Oh, forgive me, governor.
00:15:33These are two of me officers.
00:15:34Mr. Boyle, Governor Landers.
00:15:36Mr. Lorenzo, Governor Landers.
00:15:40Spanish blood.
00:15:42A pretty lot of sinners.
00:15:44Capitan,
00:15:45do you think there is anyone down there who knows us?
00:15:48I hope not.
00:15:49Governor, would you be good enough to tell them what we're here for?
00:15:53Give heed, you, you vermin.
00:15:56Here's news to your advantage.
00:15:59Is the hang on that den?
00:16:00Out with it, then, Jack Nastyface?
00:16:02Is it that your mother's turn into an honest woman?
00:16:04Silence, you mutinous dogs.
00:16:06If another man speaks, I'll trice him up by the thumbs and flay him raw.
00:16:12Governor, is that the way to win the love of these unfortunate gentlemen?
00:16:18Now then, me bullies,
00:16:20would you rather do the gallows dance
00:16:22and hang in chains till the crows pick your eyes from your rotting skulls,
00:16:27or would you feel the roll of a stout ship beneath your feet again?
00:16:34I've a vessel, the Adventure Galley,
00:16:37and the King's Commission to Sailor,
00:16:40and for those who show a loyal and a stout heart,
00:16:43there's a royal pardon in the offing.
00:16:48Which of you knows the waters off Madagascar?
00:16:52I do!
00:16:54Would you have him unlocked, Governor?
00:16:58Warder, unlock him.
00:17:03Look you, then.
00:17:04I want men with iron in their blood
00:17:06and steel in their sinews.
00:17:09And the first up here is the first enlisted.
00:17:12Governor, if your warders are ready,
00:17:13would you be good enough to have them lower the ropes?
00:17:15Lower the way!
00:17:33Here they come.
00:17:34Make ready, lads.
00:17:44Lay your hands down there. I'll make you a free man.
00:17:50The other one, now.
00:17:56Next one.
00:18:08Next one. Come on.
00:18:15Name?
00:18:16Peter Shafto.
00:18:18Peter Shafto.
00:18:19Regardless of the fact that I'm your captain,
00:18:21you will always address a gentleman as Sir Scum.
00:18:25Aye, sir.
00:18:26Make your mark.
00:18:34On board.
00:18:36Name?
00:18:37Adam Mercy, sir.
00:18:38Oh, sir, it's you.
00:18:42Mercy, that's a comical handle
00:18:44for a blade of fortune. Mercy.
00:18:46It's also something the world needs more of.
00:18:49Fire and death a philosopher.
00:18:50You speak cultured.
00:18:52Were you by any chance stable boy to a noble house?
00:18:55Perhaps.
00:18:57I was also master gunner to a buccaneer
00:18:59you may have heard of.
00:19:00Captain Avery.
00:19:02Avery's master gunner.
00:19:06We've need of a master gunner, Mr. Boyle,
00:19:08and from what I've heard,
00:19:09Avery was a shrewd hand at picking them.
00:19:14The berth's yours for as long as you can handle it.
00:19:16I can handle it.
00:19:18Swivel gunner long, Tom.
00:19:20I'll forfeit a guinea for every miss.
00:19:21You'll forfeit your neck if you miss
00:19:23while you're on my ship.
00:19:24Make your mark.
00:19:29And you can write.
00:19:32We'll give you a nice bath.
00:19:35You'll draw a uniform befitting a master gunner.
00:19:38On board.
00:19:39Next, ma'am.
00:19:40Ma'am.
00:19:41Bartholomew, you believe in, sir.
00:19:43Bartholomew, you believe in, sir.
00:19:46Make your mark.
00:19:55Down below.
00:19:57Down below.
00:20:03I love you every day.
00:20:07I don't want anything.
00:20:09I don't want anything.
00:20:13I don't want anything.
00:20:14Captain aboard.
00:20:15He's over there, sir.
00:20:23Next, man.
00:20:25That's all, sir.
00:20:26Our compliment's full.
00:20:30Povey.
00:20:32I thought you...
00:20:33Yes, you thought I was dead.
00:20:46I can hardly believe my eyes.
00:20:48You mean you don't want to believe them?
00:20:49Come, come, Mr. Povey, is that kind or is that fair?
00:20:52As fair as what you did that day you abandoned me on a Bahama reef.
00:20:56If you please, Mr. Povey, it is not the time to talk about that.
00:20:59Oh, it's the time, all right.
00:21:01Unless you want me to know, in which case your present voyage is over before it's begun.
00:21:08Now, now, now, now, Povey, Mr. Boyle, would you take over, please?
00:21:11Mr. Lorenzo, take the deck watch.
00:21:14Come to my cabin.
00:21:42My heart bleeds when I think of one of your delicate constitution having to fend for yourself on a coral
00:21:49reef, Mr. Povey.
00:21:50Come off it, Captain.
00:21:55I know why you marooned me.
00:21:57It was so there'd be only three of you to share instead of four.
00:22:00It's true.
00:22:02A hostile wind did blow us away from your reef.
00:22:05Between friends, we might have sailed back at exactly what you would have done, Mr. Povey.
00:22:10So no more of your sentimental nonsense, please.
00:22:16Now that we are four again, what then?
00:22:19We're not four.
00:22:23We're two.
00:22:25Boyle and Lorenzo, dull clods.
00:22:29Twenty thousand pounds apiece in their hands would only be spent in sinful ways.
00:22:34And you propose to remove them from the path of temptation.
00:22:39How?
00:22:40A knife in the dark?
00:22:42I'm not a violent man, Mr. Povey.
00:22:44I detest violence.
00:22:45People have such an awkward habit of getting in my way.
00:22:51I am an ambitious man, Mr. Povey.
00:22:54An ambitious man, if he be bold enough, can carve himself a kingdom.
00:23:01I'm going to be a lord, my friend.
00:23:04And that for a commoner like myself takes a deal of money.
00:23:08And that's why there could be two less to share
00:23:13before we raise old England again.
00:23:16You cold-gutted shire.
00:23:19Oh.
00:23:20A flatterer.
00:23:25I'm glad you're back again, Mr. Povey.
00:23:28You've no idea how gratifying it is to have a congenial soul
00:23:32to confide in.
00:23:38Oh, there's something I want to tell you.
00:23:41I have left with a sealed letter containing an exact and complete account
00:23:45of certain previous happenings.
00:23:47Only to be opened in case, just in case, of course,
00:23:51you should happen to return to England without me.
00:23:54Of course, my dear fellow.
00:23:57Very sensible of you.
00:24:00Now I know you'll have a happy voyage.
00:24:04I shall, too.
00:24:18I'll look up me quarters.
00:24:47I'll have a happy future.
00:24:50Let's go.
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00:30:48Gentlemen.
00:30:49The king.
00:30:50The king.
00:30:51God bless you.
00:30:51God bless you.
00:31:13that's curious do you suppose his majesty put him on board to spy us out we found him chained
00:31:21to a pillar at newgate wouldn't be too hard for the king to plant him there yes but why would
00:31:27he speak
00:31:28so openly against the king your wits are even duller than usual mr lorenzo have you never heard
00:31:35of the serpent that takes the color of its background the better to strike shadwell
00:31:43yes sir you have a knowledge of high-born people and those at the court have you ever seen mr
00:31:52mercy
00:31:53before not before this void sir he's as high of spirit as a gentleman of quality i like him
00:31:59would you find out who he is where he comes from as you wish sir thank you shanwell
00:32:29good evening shadow excuse me sir but you seafaring men always seem to be looking at something that i
00:32:36never can see we are looking for something just over the horizon you know sir i recognized you for a
00:32:42gentleman the moment i saw you sir what are you a valet doing at sea the captain employed me to
00:32:49make
00:32:49him socially acceptable sir i'm afraid we are too far out for me to swim back but if i can
00:32:58be of service
00:32:59to you sir did the captain send you here yes sir why he wants to know who or what you
00:33:06are sir who do
00:33:08they think i am possibly a spy placed on board by his majesty they seemed uneasy sir hmm this uh
00:33:19this
00:33:20captain kid how long have you known him have you sailed with him before oh no sir all i know
00:33:26is he's uh
00:33:29well among other things a merchant captain a spy that's strange why should they be afraid to be spied on
00:33:40good night shot good night sir
00:33:52who is he where's he from he's a nobody sir he was employed by persons of quality where he learned
00:34:00his
00:34:00speech and his manners oh
00:34:35it's a matter of judgment if you fire on the uproar the shot will go over his yard but if
00:34:41you wait for
00:34:41the down roll and the enemy is coming up now watch
00:34:53get ready
00:34:54get ready
00:34:58fire
00:35:06pretty sharp mr mercy can you do as well with a 74 throwing grape and canister at you
00:35:13i've done it so reload and secure and pick up your practice on the lob and quarter swivel gun
00:35:19mr mercy you've sailed with avery you must know these waters fairly soon if we needed to careen and
00:35:26take on stores where would you recommend poverty bay so it lies we draw too much water you remember
00:35:32captain remember remember what i only know the spanish main these are madagascar waters
00:35:39uh poverty bay i said thank you mr mercy come along mr boyle
00:35:52you're blundering ass
00:35:55your presence is becoming increasingly excellent to me get you below
00:36:28your presence now let's get down to the business of this voyage
00:36:36Hand me that chart, Mr. Boyle.
00:36:41Captain Dunst, I have been thinking every day and every night.
00:36:46What about that denaro that we buried in the cave?
00:36:49What good is it there? Let's get it and get it back where we can spend it.
00:36:52That stays where it is for a while.
00:36:54Why?
00:36:55We've got a fatter prize sailing right into our pockets.
00:37:01Now, here's our present position.
00:37:04Here's Madagascar.
00:37:05Here's Calicut.
00:37:07In June, the great galleon, the Cuida merchant,
00:37:11sails from Calicut to England.
00:37:14We should meet her about here.
00:37:18She's stuffed from keel to gunnels with treasure to the value of half a million pounds.
00:37:24And we are to give her safe passage through the pirate seas.
00:37:31By safe passage, you mean we're to take her, Captain.
00:37:34Now, now, now, don't be greedy, Mr. Povey.
00:37:36I grant that most of what's in it may find its way into our pockets.
00:37:39But let's be fair.
00:37:40The king, poor gentleman, will expect something.
00:37:43But however we do it,
00:37:45it must be done
00:37:47legal-like and honest.
00:37:50Stick to ways you're familiar with.
00:37:52Why, you pox-rattled villain,
00:37:54I can be as honest as any man if I have the incentive.
00:37:56Who?
00:37:57Yes, me Lord Blaine.
00:38:01Lord Blaine's name is not to be mentioned among us, Mr. Povey.
00:38:04He's dead, so's his crew, and so's ours.
00:38:07And there's none outside this cabin that knows what became of them.
00:38:10And if you all enjoy living,
00:38:14you will remember that.
00:38:17Well,
00:38:19here's to our meeting with the Cuida merchant.
00:38:22Cuida merchant.
00:38:23Cuida merchant.
00:38:24God bless her.
00:38:25God bless her.
00:38:26Dios la bendiga.
00:38:29Dios la bendiga.
00:38:59Dios la bendiga.
00:39:18Wind fresh from west-northwest, sir.
00:39:21Course snow east-by-east.
00:39:22Night dark but clear.
00:39:23Very well, Mr. Mercy.
00:39:38earth-by-east.
00:39:40Flight has been locked.
00:39:44Core and Vacetters
00:39:46Just one other today recipe.
00:39:46Fort foot-northwest, sir.
00:39:46That is a breeze, Mr. Vancouver.
00:39:46I will beæçœ
00:39:46Little sludges
00:39:46Let's hear it.
00:39:47Get out!
00:39:48I will be baby.
00:39:48Serve her the sky next dayWho
00:40:13Listen down!
00:40:15It's Mr. Barrow and the hand men!
00:40:22Let's go!
00:40:25He's dead.
00:40:29If I find the man that's responsible for this, I'll hang him.
00:40:36Fish the yard and reset it.
00:40:46What do you suppose happened?
00:40:50Someone's been tampering with these lines.
00:41:12We are gathered together to bid farewell to a gallant seaman...
00:41:18...and a stout comrade.
00:41:21Here was a man's shipmate whose heart the flinty mountains could not match.
00:41:28Who always took better than he gave.
00:41:31Whose benevolence was such the orphan's might and the rich man's gold alike found refuge in his pocket.
00:41:40A jealous providence has removed him from our midst.
00:41:44And I esteem it a privilege to commit his body to the deep.
00:41:48We shall all mourn him.
00:41:52Aye, we shall mourn him.
00:41:54But take comfort, me friends.
00:41:56We shall never see his like again.
00:41:59Rest in peace.
00:42:02Pop him over.
00:42:07Pity, Mr. Mercy, a great pity, but the ship's work must go on.
00:42:10Move your gear into poor Mr. Boyle's cabin.
00:42:13You will take his place as master.
00:42:15As master.
00:42:18Aye, sir.
00:42:41Come on.
00:42:45Come on.
00:42:50Come on.
00:42:52Why, Shadwell.
00:42:56Don't tell me after all this time at sea you're still...
00:42:59My inward revolt is not from the movement of the vessel, sir.
00:43:02It's occasioned by the company I endure.
00:43:05Their manners I say nothing of, sir.
00:43:08But I'm a Dorsetshire man.
00:43:10And when I find a common shipmaster,
00:43:12as to the presumption to copy himself the coat of arms of one of our best Dorsetshire families,
00:43:17can you wonder if I'm physically upset?
00:43:20Whose crest was he copying?
00:43:21Credited or not, sir, the Blain crest.
00:43:24Are you certain?
00:43:25Perfectly, sir.
00:43:27The crest is on a ring in his desk.
00:43:29Pardon me, sir.
00:43:30I must join the captain.
00:43:31He's inspecting the cast of pickled eels.
00:43:33What do you mean?
00:43:34With Mr. Lorenzo.
00:43:49Can you go 30 minutes for him?
00:43:50nouvelles operation.
00:43:53Go.
00:44:06Go, boat.
00:44:07Av nasni.
00:44:12Till 30 minutes for the castle.
00:44:13Come on.
00:44:13Fish out with Mr. Lorenzo.
00:44:14ĐœĐŸŃĐŒers.
00:44:14Help out the young people of the U.S.ă§ăăă.
00:44:16Wait for
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00:47:28Listen in carefully, because I want you to tell it in London if anything happens to me.
00:47:33The kid caught me in his cabin robbing his desk.
00:47:35I lied to him, told him I was a King's informer.
00:47:37Good.
00:47:38Yes, but he didn't believe me, not one word. He just pretended to.
00:47:41Oh, why didn't you shoot him? Then he will give us no more trouble.
00:47:45That's a pleasure I'm reserving for later.
00:47:48If he proves the liar I think him, King's man or no,
00:47:52he betrayed an uncommon interest in the Twelve Apostles.
00:47:55I didn't like them, Mr. Lorenzo, and I mean to find out why.
00:47:59Why, you could have charged him with robbery and turned him off at a yardarm, all legal and shipshape.
00:48:03We would have been rid of him once and for all.
00:48:05Let's not be impetuous, Mr. Povey. He can't leave us, unless he swims.
00:48:10It'll be rather amusing to find out what he does.
00:48:13You rest easy. Leave Mr. Mercy to me.
00:48:41I don't think he's gonna be a good one, all legal and husband.
00:48:42He's gonna go out!
00:48:42He's gonna be a good friend.
00:48:42Yeah, I know.
00:48:42You're right, sir.
00:48:43He's gonna be a good friend.
00:48:43You're right.
00:48:50See you later,
00:48:51Sail home!
00:49:05Sail home!
00:49:09Have the boats and pipe to court us.
00:49:12Pipe to court us!
00:49:24It's the Kuida merchant, sure enough.
00:49:30Can you make her out, Captain Rawson?
00:49:36She hasn't the cut of a buccaneer, Your Excellency.
00:49:40Much too tidy for that, more like a kingship.
00:49:43Yet she has the lines of a merchantman.
00:49:48Have the longboat ready and man.
00:49:49Longboat, stand for!
00:49:57Stand by to put a shot across her bows, Mr. Mercy.
00:50:00Aye, sir.
00:50:01Number four gun crew, stand by for action!
00:50:09She's flying the English colors.
00:50:12Perhaps she's our escort ship.
00:50:14It was about here we were to meet, wasn't it?
00:50:16Well, we'll make dead certain just the same.
00:50:20Mr. Hilliard.
00:50:21See that all hands are at the station.
00:50:23Very good, sir.
00:50:29Ready!
00:50:31Fire!
00:50:34Well placed, Mr. Mercy.
00:50:36How to stop it.
00:50:37How to starboard?
00:50:39Starboard she is, sir.
00:50:51You will come across with us in the longboat, Mr. Mercy.
00:50:54Convey my compliments to all officers who will dress as befitting a kingship.
00:50:58Aye, sir.
00:51:13Captain William Kidd of his majesty's private air adventure at your service, sir.
00:51:18Mr. Povey my surgeon, Mr. Mercy my master, Mr. Lorenzo my navigator.
00:51:24Welcome aboard, gentlemen.
00:51:25I'm Captain Russell.
00:51:27I'm Lord Falsworth, his majesty's ambassador to the court of the Grand Mogul.
00:51:32Your obedient servant, sir.
00:51:35I've been sent to give you convoy and we'd better make haste with our business.
00:51:39These are unhealthy waters for ships to be hoved to, as I discovered a day or so ago.
00:51:44You mean you sighted some of the pirate brotherhood?
00:51:47More than that, sir.
00:51:48We beat off two of them.
00:51:51Avery and Culliford out of Last Hope.
00:51:53Some 30 leagues south of here.
00:51:55Oh, stop me.
00:51:56I nearly forgot.
00:51:56Could you spare us some powder and ball?
00:51:59We used more than we're safe during the action.
00:52:00Why, all that you need, sir, and welcome.
00:52:02Mr. Lorenzo here could attend to that, then.
00:52:05Mr. Hilliard, take Mr. Lorenzo below and see that he gets what he wants.
00:52:08Aye, aye, sir.
00:52:09Captain.
00:52:10Oh, sir.
00:52:27I'll send for the master gunner.
00:52:28He'll take care of all your needs.
00:52:30Uh-huh.
00:52:59Mr. Lorenzo!
00:53:01Mr. Lorenzo!
00:53:08Take this powder and put it in the long boat.
00:53:11Aye, aye, sir.
00:53:23Gentlemen, my daughter.
00:53:25The Lady Anne Dunstan.
00:53:27Captain Kidd.
00:53:28Mr. Povey.
00:53:30Mr. Mercy.
00:53:37Haven't we met before?
00:53:38I think not, my lady.
00:53:41You remind me of someone I've seen.
00:53:44I think it impossible that we could have ever met.
00:53:49Perhaps.
00:53:52How do we proceed now, Captain?
00:53:54Well, I'm instructed to give you protection past Madagascar.
00:53:58And you'll be safe as long as we sail in company.
00:54:01But Avery will be a wolf at your heels, and if we are separated in darkness or storm...
00:54:07And, uh, what would you advise then, sir?
00:54:11Well, I suppose we could take Lord Falsworth and Lady Anne aboard the adventure till Madagascar's
00:54:17are sterner than if we are separated and this vessel should be taken.
00:54:22What about the treasure on board?
00:54:25One silver chest alone.
00:54:27A present to his majesty from the Grand Mogul.
00:54:30Contains precious gems valued at more than a million pounds.
00:54:34May I suggest your excellency?
00:54:37Now, why not transfer the treasure chest with yourself and Lady Anne on board the adventure until we are out
00:54:44of danger?
00:54:45She's a kingship.
00:54:46That is a great responsibility.
00:54:50And although my instructions are that you are to trust me in all matters, I don't know if I could
00:54:56go so far as...
00:54:57What else can we do?
00:54:59Put three of them against us, sir.
00:55:01Well, even two, sir.
00:55:02We'd be hopeless.
00:55:03It's the wisest cause.
00:55:05I defer to your excellency.
00:55:08And how could we inspect the chests?
00:55:11We could have them slung into our boats along with the gear of Lord Falsworth and Lady Anne.
00:55:15Why certainly.
00:55:16Come.
00:55:16This way, Captain.
00:55:17No trouble at all.
00:55:27Hoist away.
00:55:34Mr. Povey.
00:55:36I have sent for the manifest, Captain.
00:55:39You may check it against the contents of this chest and give me your receipt, if you will.
00:55:43Gladly.
00:55:44Gladly.
00:55:44Oh, there you are, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:55:47Have you completed your business?
00:55:49Almost, sir.
00:55:51Your people have been most kind, Capitan Rossell.
00:55:54There is only one detail left.
00:55:57It will not take a minute.
00:55:59Finished up, then.
00:56:00We must be gone within the hour.
00:56:02Yes, Capitan.
00:56:05Oh, the manifest, sir.
00:56:06Would you attend to that, Mr. Povey?
00:56:08Thank you very much, Captain.
00:56:47Come, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:56:49You've seen a lovely lady before this.
00:56:52A tribute to your beauty, ma'am.
00:56:56Did you finish your business below?
00:56:59Yes, Capitan.
00:57:00Then we'd better be underway.
00:57:03Uh, Mr. Mercy.
00:57:04You will see Lord Falsworth and the Lady Anne into the boat.
00:57:07Yes, sir.
00:57:25Make way for the landlord.
00:57:58You will look after the loading, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:58:03I apologize, m'lady, for our poor accommodations,
00:58:05but me valet Chadwell will see that you're made comfortable.
00:58:08It's a pleasure to have your ladyship aboard.
00:58:10If you'll follow me, please.
00:58:25Why hasn't it happened?
00:58:38She's blown up.
00:58:39Someone must have touched over the magazine.
00:58:42Send out your boats at once, sir.
00:58:45You're going to ask me to risk men near that?
00:58:47I don't want so.
00:58:51Let me guard one.
00:58:52Captain.
00:58:55Captain.
00:58:58Captain.
00:59:06Captain.
00:59:09Captain.
00:59:17Captain.
00:59:26Captain.
00:59:40Excuse me, milady.
00:59:44Your father, may I say how sorry I am.
00:59:47The captain has requested that you take your meals in the main cabin.
00:59:51Oh, no, Shadwell, I can't bear to face those men.
00:59:54I can't.
00:59:55I quite understand, milady.
00:59:58But the captain's orders are orders.
01:00:00Shadwell, you must tell me.
01:00:01There's no one else I can trust.
01:00:03But what can I do, milady?
01:00:05I'm only a servant.
01:00:06Where can I turn?
01:00:08I'm so confused and frightened.
01:00:12I keep thinking of my father and the others lost back there.
01:00:18And on this ship, wherever I go, those horrible staring men.
01:00:22That Lorenzo who's always standing behind me, beside me.
01:00:27Last night there was a tapping on the door, and when I opened it, there he was, that evil smiling
01:00:32face of his.
01:00:34Well, he might better belong with those pirates you fought a few days ago.
01:00:40Pirates, milady.
01:00:45Well, my father said, Captain Kidd told you.
01:00:53Shadwell, what manner of ship is this?
01:01:01My father was killed deliberately, I'm sure of it.
01:01:05That's why I can't bear to face your captain.
01:01:07I'd accuse him.
01:01:11There is a man on board, milady.
01:01:13A gentleman whom I know you can trust.
01:01:17Mr. Mercy?
01:01:19Yes, milady.
01:01:21Shadwell, I know I've met or seen him before, no matter how he denies it.
01:01:27His name isn't Mercy.
01:01:29But who is he?
01:01:31All I really know is, milady, he's no friend of the captain's.
01:01:35Perhaps if I ask him, he'll...
01:01:37Shall I?
01:01:38Oh, yes, will you please?
01:01:40Yes, milady.
01:01:53I am asking you again, very nice, my dear Capitan.
01:01:57Your fancy manners do not impress me, Mr. Lorenzo.
01:02:03When do we divide the gold?
01:02:05In London, not before.
01:02:08Uh-huh.
01:02:09Then look, Capitan, I will make a bargain with you.
01:02:13A bargain?
01:02:14Everybody wants to bargain with me, you and Mercy.
01:02:17Father and Father, what do you think I am, a stinking sausage merchant?
01:02:21What kind of a bargain?
01:02:23The girl.
01:02:26All my life I have dreamed of a beautiful woman like that.
01:02:31Give me half of my dinero now, and you can split the rest between you.
01:02:36If you will, let me have her.
01:02:38Fie on him.
01:02:40He smit with love.
01:02:43Again.
01:02:44I want her.
01:02:45And I am going to take her.
01:02:49Whether I like it or not.
01:02:53Uh-huh.
01:02:56With all this treasure on board,
01:02:59the crew is like a barrel of hot gunpowder.
01:03:03All that is needed is a word in the right ears.
01:03:07Do you mean mute me?
01:03:09You're a witness.
01:03:11He's inciting the crew to mute me.
01:03:15No, no, no, no, Capitan.
01:03:17You're a man.
01:03:18I was only joking.
01:03:20You have a very nasty way of joking, Mr. Lorenzo.
01:03:23As for the girl, I have my own plans for her, and they do not include you.
01:03:28Get out.
01:03:43Do.
01:03:44Do.
01:03:46Do.
01:03:47Do.
01:04:05Who is it?
01:04:06Adam Mercy.
01:04:09Mr. Mercy, I'm...
01:04:34Thank you for coming, Mr. Mercy. I'm...
01:04:36My name's Adam Blaine.
01:04:38Son of Lord Blaine.
01:04:40I knew it. I knew it.
01:04:43What are you doing on this ship?
01:04:45My father was killed and accused of piracy.
01:04:47A few people believed Lord Blaine's...
01:04:49The King did.
01:04:50That's why I went to sea and turned pirate three years ago.
01:04:53That's why I'm on this ship.
01:04:54I knew that someday I'd come upon the truth.
01:04:57And you have.
01:05:01It was Captain Kidd who killed your father, wasn't it?
01:05:05Adam, I'm no fool.
01:05:07He did the same thing to my father.
01:05:11The fat butcher.
01:05:13It's taken me three years to track him down.
01:05:16Three years of degradation.
01:05:18Now I've got him where I want him and he knows it.
01:05:21You mean he knows who you are?
01:05:23He knows something.
01:05:25That's why you didn't admit to me who you were.
01:05:26Why you avoided me.
01:05:28If Kidd knows we shared this, he'd kill you with his little compunction as he means to kill me if
01:05:32I let him.
01:05:34What can I do to help them?
01:05:35There must be something.
01:05:39Forget everything you've seen on this ship.
01:05:41Play up to him.
01:05:42Be friendly.
01:05:43That way you'll be safe.
01:05:44Now when you get back to London, no matter what has happened to me, go to the lords of the
01:05:48Admiralty and the King.
01:05:50You'll be doing me a great service as well as yourself.
01:05:53I will, Adam.
01:05:54I promise.
01:05:59You're going to have trouble with Lorenzo.
01:06:01The beating of the lambs is exciting the tiger.
01:06:03His blood's getting too rich for him.
01:06:05He'd be the better for bleeding.
01:06:08Things are getting a bit complicated, my lord.
01:06:11The King may accept the elimination of the Queen of Merchant as an accident.
01:06:15Maybe even the sudden demise of Lord Balsworth.
01:06:17But what about the ratings?
01:06:20He said you had plans for her.
01:06:22Do they include...
01:06:23Mr. Povey, the little dears are safe with me as if she was me daughter.
01:06:27My passion's power and gold.
01:06:29Since she suspects nothing, I deliver her to his majesty along with his share of the Queen of Merchant's goods.
01:06:37I weep appropriately over the untimely demise of her power.
01:06:41Receive the grateful thanks of me sovereign and a peerage is mine.
01:06:46My lord.
01:06:47Laugh if you will, but that's what I'll have.
01:06:50And neither man nor devil shall stop me.
01:07:01Shadwell?
01:07:03Senorita, milady.
01:07:04Do not be alarmed.
01:07:08Now that she knows who I am and the kind of a ship she's on,
01:07:10I think we can count on to keep ahead.
01:07:13You stay here till I come off watch.
01:07:17Help!
01:07:39Shadwell!
01:07:43Help!
01:07:45Use your head, Mr. Povey.
01:07:46Luck's with us tonight.
01:07:48Which of either of them would you like to see survive?
01:07:57Ooh!
01:08:21Please use your head, Mr. Povey.
01:08:42Mr. Mercy, you did well to protect her.
01:09:18Are you all right, sir?
01:09:19Yes, I'm all right.
01:09:20Let me look after Lady Anne.
01:09:27Adam, what's the matter?
01:09:30My medallion, it's gone.
01:09:32Has the Blaine crest on it.
01:09:35Blaine?
01:09:38Perhaps I can find it for you, sir.
01:09:39No, it must have come off just before Lorenzo went through the port.
01:09:43Chad will take Lady Anne to her cabin.
01:09:45Please, Adam, I can't go in there.
01:09:47You must, Anne.
01:09:47This is serious.
01:09:48It involves you.
01:09:49Remember, no matter what tricks he tries, you've never seen me before and you don't know who I am, Chad
01:09:54will I think.
01:09:54Well, don't worry about me, sir.
01:09:56He never could get anything out of me and he never will.
01:09:59It's the only way you'll be safe.
01:10:00Chad will watch out for you.
01:10:02What about you, Adam?
01:10:03What will he do?
01:10:04The same thing he's done to the others, if he gets a chance.
01:10:07Oh, Adam.
01:10:08Don't worry, Anne.
01:10:09I at least know what to expect.
01:10:11Go then.
01:10:14Chad will, if anything does happen, remember you to stand by Lady Anne and see that she gets safely to
01:10:18London.
01:10:18I'll stake my life on it, sir.
01:10:20I know you will.
01:10:22Be careful, Adam.
01:10:24Please be careful.
01:10:28Come, Milady.
01:10:45He's no king's man.
01:10:46Who is he then?
01:10:48Tomorrow we put into the lagoon for water and while the crew's getting it on board, you and me and
01:10:53Mr. Mercy's going to the cave.
01:10:55You gonna take him in there?
01:10:57I've a peculiar humor to watch my clever young friends fizz when we dig up that chest.
01:11:04Sweet dreams.
01:12:00Let's go.
01:12:32Dig fast, Mr. Mercer, you haven't got forever.
01:12:40Who might this be?
01:12:44Perhaps a man that asked too many questions.
01:12:56Gently now, Mr. Mercer, you've come on something.
01:13:08So it was the Twelve Apostles, eh, Captain?
01:13:11Yes, it was, Mr. Mercer.
01:13:16Open it up.
01:13:42Blanes.
01:13:45Blanes.
01:13:48He was a brave seaman, but foolish.
01:13:51Did you happen to know him, Mr. Mercer?
01:13:53I'd heard of him.
01:13:56I thought perhaps you had.
01:14:01This is yours, isn't it?
01:14:07I, uh, traded a ring for it.
01:14:10One of Avery's men.
01:14:12Yes.
01:14:14When I encountered Lord Blane at sea,
01:14:16I did my simple duty as a loyal subject.
01:14:19A pity he turned pirate and traitor to his king.
01:14:24Liar!
01:15:11He's made for the sharks now, Mr. Povey.
01:15:15Tide closes this place in half an hour.
01:15:17We've nothing more to fear.
01:15:19Oh, yes, you have, Captain.
01:15:20I really am.
01:15:21It's a long voyage home, Mr. Povey.
01:15:24And anything might happen.
01:15:33Naturally, her ladyship is still very distressed, sir.
01:15:36In the midst of life, we are in death, Shadwell.
01:15:39And though me heart bleeds...
01:15:41My heart, sir.
01:15:43My heart bleeds.
01:15:50Confound you, Shadwell.
01:15:51You've drove the thought right out of me head.
01:15:53And it was an uncommon pretty one.
01:15:56I'm sure of that, sir.
01:15:57We'll go to her at once.
01:15:59Tell her she can't mourn forever,
01:16:01and I shall expect her to take her meals in the main cabin with the rest of us.
01:16:04Very well, sir.
01:16:09Poor lad.
01:16:10We turned just in time to see him go over the edge.
01:16:14Searched for an hour.
01:16:16Never came up.
01:16:18Well...
01:16:19Here's to him.
01:16:21Wherever he is.
01:16:22You feeling ill?
01:16:26Yes, sir.
01:16:28I'll go to my cabin with your permission.
01:16:30If you wish, it's been quite a trying voyage.
01:16:33What with one little thing and another, but bear up.
01:16:36You'll soon be home again.
01:16:54I warned Adam not to go.
01:16:56No one could have stopped him.
01:16:58It was cold-blooded, planned, deliberate.
01:17:00The same will happen to her ladyship unless we can...
01:17:08Adam.
01:17:13Adam.
01:17:14How did you...
01:17:16They find you on board, sir.
01:17:17I've come back for Lady Anne.
01:17:19Oh, thank you, sir.
01:17:20I've been hanging on the rudder chain since dark, waiting for the turn of the watch.
01:17:23The jolly boat's more to stern.
01:17:26I worked it alongside.
01:17:27It's secured right under this port.
01:17:28Wad get in it and drift aft under the main cabin.
01:17:31Where now?
01:17:32Get me some dry clothes.
01:17:32Shadwell, where's the captain?
01:17:33In his own cabin with Mr. Povey, sir.
01:17:36Examining the silver chest they brought back on board, sir.
01:17:38My father's chest.
01:17:40Shadwell, kid, doesn't suspect you.
01:17:41Tell Lady Anne to get some things together, and when the coast is clear, you come back for me.
01:17:44Yes, sir.
01:17:58Bowson?
01:17:59Aye, sir.
01:18:00Browse out both watches at daybreak.
01:18:03We're weighing on the morning tide.
01:18:05Aye, sir.
01:18:21Adam.
01:18:25Kid doesn't suspect Shadwell.
01:18:26He's staying on board, and he'll be evidence for us in London.
01:18:28Bart's on the small boat, more to stern.
01:18:30We'll row ashore.
01:18:31Then where, Adam?
01:18:32Two days' journey overland is the pirate town of Last Hope.
01:18:35It's the most lawless place on earth, but I have friends there.
01:18:37Somehow they'll find us a ship for England.
01:18:40England?
01:18:41No.
01:18:42Come on.
01:18:58Get down on the bow.
01:19:08Goodbye, Lady.
01:19:10Goodbye, Lord.
01:19:12Godspeed.
01:19:21I see you in England.
01:19:26Ahoy there! Who's in that boat now?
01:19:29Come on.
01:19:31Come on!
01:19:47Come on!
01:19:53Fire!
01:19:59Me lord scum.
01:20:09Fire!
01:20:10Fire!
01:20:12And the long boots!
01:20:23Fire!
01:20:26Fire!
01:20:31Hold on to me.
01:20:42Take her away!
01:21:05He's dead as a mackerel.
01:21:07He's gone too.
01:21:09I guess that's the end of the make-up.
01:21:11Ah, good riddles.
01:21:13Back to the ship, boys.
01:21:44If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, my friend, forget it.
01:21:49There's a little matter of a letter I left in London.
01:21:53Spoilsport.
01:21:54Don't stop!
01:22:06No!
01:22:09No!
01:22:16It's so empty!
01:22:21Yeah, I'm sick!
01:22:23To the end of the night of London,
01:22:23and I'm calm.
01:22:30Oh, my God, my God, my God, my God.
01:22:52Captain William Kidd!
01:22:56Captain William Kidd!
01:23:03Greetings, Captain.
01:23:05What news have you brought me from the Indian Seas?
01:23:07By your leave, Your Majesty, both good and ill, but mostly very good indeed.
01:23:12I returned by way of the American colonies, sire.
01:23:15So I understood.
01:23:17With the main points of your voyage, I am familiar.
01:23:21I wonder if you can enlighten me
01:23:23about the affair of the Queen's godchild, Lady Anne Dunstan,
01:23:26and your shipmaster, Mr. Mercy.
01:23:28Oh, that poor impetuous fellow, sire.
01:23:31Inveigled that bud of innocence he did into running away with him
01:23:34and catching him red-handed in defence of my very life,
01:23:38I was forced to dispatch them both.
01:23:42Rest in peace.
01:23:45Tell me, Captain, about the treasure
01:23:47and the Cuida merchant.
01:23:50Unfortunate, sire.
01:23:52Most unfortunate.
01:23:53We'd ship but that chest when up she blew
01:23:57and all souls went heavenward.
01:23:59Rest in peace to them.
01:24:02Ditto.
01:24:03I see.
01:24:05And about the Twelve Apostles and Lord Blaine,
01:24:08do you encounter any trace?
01:24:11Nay, sire.
01:24:12I can only hope that the weight of his sins sank both him and his ship.
01:24:16I see.
01:24:19Then how do you explain this?
01:24:26Whose might that be, Your Majesty?
01:24:28My officers found it on your ship at Plymouth
01:24:30after you'd left for London.
01:24:32It bears the Blaine crest
01:24:34with which I believe you are not unfamiliar.
01:24:36I've always felt that Mr. Povey, Miss Surgeon,
01:24:39a very wily fellow indeed, was hiding something from me.
01:24:42Hiding it in a secret lazarette in your cabin, Captain?
01:24:44I hope Mr. Povey has a proper explanation, sire.
01:24:47Mr. Povey was killed three days ago defending it.
01:24:50With his dying oath, he swore it was not his.
01:24:52Perhaps Shadwell, my valet, slipped it aboard.
01:24:55Might it not have come from a Madagascar cave, Captain?
01:24:58Something dreadful queer about all this, Your Majesty.
01:25:00Enough of your lies!
01:25:02Look.
01:25:13Nightmare!
01:25:15A pity you overlooked Last Hope, Captain.
01:25:18We stood on the headland with my friend Avery
01:25:20and watched you sail by.
01:25:21May it please Your Majesty
01:25:22I accuse this man of piracy and murder.
01:25:26Was ever a gentleman so misfortunate.
01:25:30Lock him up in Newgate.
01:25:31He is to be held for the next session of the court of Oye and Termina.
01:25:34They are to be tried for his life.
01:25:39Hands off me, you scum!
01:25:43All I done was to the credit
01:25:45and for the honor and glory of England!
01:25:50So here's my bequest to them what hunts what I have hid,
01:25:56and to their sons' sons down through the endless corridors of time.
01:26:06Greed that spawns murder!
01:26:11Hatred that corrodes the soul!
01:26:17Ambition the foulest trumpet of all!
01:26:22Hey Jack! Jack Keds!
01:26:24Sell me a bit of that rope for sixpence, will ya?
01:26:26Save your money, me lads.
01:26:29You can have it all for nothing
01:26:31if you'd only step up here and wear it.
01:26:38Money's up, Jack.
01:26:40Can't wait forever.
01:26:46Captain Kidd is dead, my lord Blaine.
01:26:48His account is closed.
01:26:50Now in what manner can I atone for the injustice I worked upon your father?
01:26:54Offered your first sea lord, what do you suggest?
01:26:57We've a fine frigate of fifty guns,
01:27:00commissioned for American waters, sire,
01:27:03that we thought of naming the Lady Anne.
01:27:06It should be a wedding gift to you from the crown.
01:27:09For your loyalty and service to king and country.
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