Captain Kidd (1945) – The Legendary Pirate's Greatest Adventure
Set sail on an unforgettable journey with Captain Kidd (1945), a classic pirate adventure inspired by the legendary seafarer William Kidd. Filled with thrilling naval battles, hidden treasure, dangerous betrayals, and unforgettable performances, this timeless film captures the excitement of the golden age of pirate cinema.
Whether you're a fan of classic Hollywood films, historical adventures, or swashbuckling stories, Captain Kidd (1945) remains an entertaining masterpiece that continues to captivate audiences around the world.
Enjoy this restored classic and experience one of the most iconic pirate adventures ever brought to the screen.
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Set sail on an unforgettable journey with Captain Kidd (1945), a classic pirate adventure inspired by the legendary seafarer William Kidd. Filled with thrilling naval battles, hidden treasure, dangerous betrayals, and unforgettable performances, this timeless film captures the excitement of the golden age of pirate cinema.
Whether you're a fan of classic Hollywood films, historical adventures, or swashbuckling stories, Captain Kidd (1945) remains an entertaining masterpiece that continues to captivate audiences around the world.
Enjoy this restored classic and experience one of the most iconic pirate adventures ever brought to the screen.
#CaptainKidd #ClassicMovies #ClassicFilm #PirateMovie #AdventureMovie #VintageCinema #OldMovies #GoldenAgeHollywood #BlackAndWhiteMovies #FullMovie
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00:00:27To be continued
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.
00:01:55Stapley, 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.
00:02:09Well, dead men, don't talk.
00:02:11Man your oars.
00:02:12We've got this job to do before high tide.
00:02:27We've got this job to do.
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 hand, mate.
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 that
00:03:42what 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 Moorish gang in North 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.
00:04:47Lower away.
00:05:07What's the matter?
00:05:08Wait a minute, Captain.
00:05:09There's something else you forgot.
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.
00:05:20That 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.
00:05:54Are we such callous rascals that we'd leave a dead comrade without commending his soul to his new master?
00:06:07Here lieth one who, through treachery and avarice, would have placed in jeopardy the lives of honest men.
00:06:17And here may he lie forever in the sands of Madagascar.
00:06:24Rest in peace.
00:06:28It's time to be out, my lads.
00:06:29It's time to be away.
00:06:52If a gentleman's a gentleman, he's a gentleman. That's all there is to it, sir.
00:06:56I'm one of nature's, gentlemen, but I need polish, my good man.
00:07:00If I'm to improve myself...
00:07:02The gentleman employs the terminology, my good man, only when addressing lower servants.
00:07:06Or his inferior, sir.
00:07:08You see, that's why I need you.
00:07:11In 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.
00:07:24Hundred quid a year.
00:07:25An infallible mark of a person of quality is his reluctance to pay his domestics high wages.
00:07:31Don't say so.
00:07:32Merely an idiosyncrasy of good breeding, sir.
00:07:37Sixty 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, I've had rather an adventurous inclination toward life on the bound in mind.
00:07:51It 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.
00:08:04My hand on it?
00:08:22ORGAN PLAYS
00:08:55Then, it is your proposal, my Lord Bellarmine, 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.
00:09:13Bring in this Captain Kidd while we take the measure of him.
00:09:21Captain William Kidd.
00:09:31Your Royal Majesty.
00:09:35Menable Lords.
00:09:40Belmont, is this your roaring killer of Spanish buccaneers?
00:09:45Me, my lad.
00:09:46I 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.
00:09:57In 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.
00:10:07Who 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, my lad, to put fear in honest traders like myself.
00:10:24And if you are successful in this voyage, Captain, what reward do you expect?
00:10:29May it please your majesty, having forfeited me honour in that I was forced to strike me colours to a
00:10:33pirate.
00:10:33I want no reward but to regain it in the service of your majesty, unless it be, or is it
00:10:41true, that Lord Blaine's lands are restreeted and his title forfeit?
00:10:47Yes.
00:10:48All I ask is that if I lay this renegade nobleman by the heels, is that you honour me humble
00:10:57self 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, though I confess he keeps
00:11:16it well hid.
00:11:18Aye, sir, you can no more judge of a man by his appearance than you can judge the extent of
00:11:22a nobleman's brains by the expensiveness of his wit.
00:11:27Am I to suppose that the captain of the King's Guard would deign defence with me?
00:11:39Come, Captain.
00:11:40Is your courage less than your wit?
00:11:42Nay, sir, I know nothing of, er, fence.
00:11:47You 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.
00:12:14I thank you, sir.
00:12:18And now, Captain.
00:12:20The main mission of your cruise will be to meet a great ship, the Quida Merchant, which is sailing from
00:12:26India with vast treasures, and 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 as sufficient authority to...
00:12:39You shall have a letter to our ambassador, Lord Falsworth, who is returning in her, that he is to accept
00:12:44your 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, and now under capital sentence in Newgate and the Marshalsea.
00:13:07A crew of condemned pirates?
00:13:10Aye, sir.
00:13:11Thus, none would be so loyal, nor fight so desperate as cutthroats under sentence of death, if they knew that
00:13:20at the end of the voyage, a 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, there will be little to choose.
00:13:33And now, goodbye.
00:13:37And Godspeed, you.
00:13:39I am but his unworthy sparrow.
00:14:16Phew!
00:14:17I'd rather eat the bill 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 Crumb Mercy, complaining about the taste of the king's bounty again.
00:14:35Watch it.
00:14:35Bounty! Bounty me I! The king's allowance is throppence a day for food, not 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 and starved before they're hanging.
00:15:13Who's that quarrelsome fellow?
00:15:15Adam Mercy. He was taken in a pirate ship 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?
00:15:31Oh, forgive me, governor. These 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, do 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.
00:15:58Is the hang on that den?
00:16:00Out with it, then, jack nasty face?
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, would 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'm a vessel, the Adventure Galley,
00:16:37and the King's commissioned a 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?
00:16:58Water, unlock him.
00:17:03Look you, then.
00:17:04I want men with iron in their blood and steel in their sinews.
00:17:09And the first up here is the first enlisted.
00:17:12Governor, if your waters are ready,
00:17:13would you be good enough to have them lower the ropes?
00:17:14Yes. Lower the way.
00:17:33Here they come. Make ready, lads.
00:17:44Lay your hands on it, I'll make you a free man.
00:17:50The other one, now.
00:17:56Thanks.
00:18:08Thanks, man.
00:18:10Come 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.
00:18:24Aye, sir.
00:18:26Make your mark.
00:18:34On board.
00:18:36Name?
00:18:37Adam Moises, sir.
00:18:38Oh, sir, it's you.
00:18:42Mercy?
00:18:42That's a comical handle for a blade of fortune.
00:18:45Mercy.
00:18:45It's also something the world needs more of.
00:18:49Fire and death of philosopher.
00:18:50You speak cultured.
00:18:51Were you by any chance stable boy to a noble house?
00:18:55Perhaps.
00:18:56I was also master gunner to a buccaneer you 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.
00:19:13The berth's yours for as long as you can handle it.
00:19:16I can handle it.
00:19:18Swivel gunner long, Tom.
00:19:19I'll forfeit a guinea for every miss.
00:19:21You'll forfeit your neck if you miss while 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 move.
00:19:40Name?
00:19:41Bartholomew Blivens, sir.
00:19:43Bartholomew Blivens.
00:19:46Make your mark.
00:19:55Down below.
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 for it.
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.
00:20:51Is that kind or is that fair?
00:20:52As fair as what you did
00:20:54that day you abandoned me on a Bahama reef?
00:20:56If you please, Mr. Povey,
00:20:57it 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
00:21:03in which case your present voyage is over
00:21:05before it's begun.
00:21:08Now, now, now, now, Povey.
00:21:10Mr. Boyle, would you take over, please?
00:21:11Mr. Lorenzo, take the deck watch.
00:21:14Come to my cabin.
00:21:21Oh, my heart bleeds when I think of one of yours.
00:21:45Poor, delicate constitution having to fend for yourself on a coral reef, 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.
00:22:25Boylan, 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.
00:23:03And that, for a commoner like myself, takes a deal of money.
00:23:09And that's why there could be two less to share before we raise old England again.
00:23:16You cold-gutted char.
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 to confide in.
00:23:37Oh, there's something I want to tell you.
00:23:41I have left with a sealed letter containing an exact and complete account of certain previous happenings.
00:23:47Only to be opened in case, just in case, of course, you should happen to return to England without me.
00:23:54Of course, my dear fellow.
00:23:57Very sensible of you.
00:23:59Now I know you'll have a happy voyage.
00:24:04I shall, too.
00:24:17I'll look up me quarters.
00:24:40I shall, too.
00:24:41I shall, too.
00:24:51Come on.
00:25:42We are two of the luckiest men alive.
00:25:44Just think, we are sailing for Madagascar waters.
00:25:48We'll pick up the search where we left off.
00:25:52Every officer on board has a servant.
00:25:54I'll request the captain to assign you to me, then we can be together.
00:26:01Yes, I've spent a good many years of my life at sea, milady.
00:26:05But I doubt if any woman minds a dash of salt,
00:26:09even in a peer of the realm, like myself.
00:26:13Now if milady will join me in a minuet.
00:26:17My lady, sir. Not me, lady.
00:26:19Blast me, Shadwell.
00:26:21Does one gentleman creep up on another without a cough or a spit or something to warn him?
00:26:27I'm not a gentleman, sir. I'm a gentleman's gentleman.
00:26:34Give me about the hair.
00:26:40I suppose you've tried everything?
00:26:43Bears, grease?
00:26:46Prenatal influence, perhaps?
00:26:53Dinner, sir, sir.
00:26:55Thank you, Shadwell.
00:26:57Pardon, sir.
00:26:58I'll show you at your place.
00:27:08Captain, what's all this warmery?
00:27:10You can forget your bilge-water manners for the time, Mr. Boyle.
00:27:13You are now officers on a king's ship.
00:27:15So a man must starve while his manners fattened.
00:27:24I know, I know.
00:27:26And in a king's ship, it is customary for the officers to rise when the captain enters.
00:27:43That's better.
00:27:45Gentlemen, be seated.
00:27:52Ah!
00:27:55Well, well, well, what have we here?
00:27:58Ah!
00:28:05Well, well, well, well, well, I don't need a car anymore.
00:28:07Of course, but don't press me.
00:28:43Come, Mr. Mercy.
00:28:44Tell us something about yourself.
00:28:47You already know what I was of consequence, sir.
00:28:51While under Avery, I was taken by King's ship and brought to London.
00:28:54There I was tried for a pirate and condemned.
00:28:56You were innocent, of course.
00:29:00No, sir, I was guilty.
00:29:02You speak above your station.
00:29:04How came you to go on the account?
00:29:07Call it a love of adventure, a cross in love, a scandal, perhaps a mixing of all three.
00:29:13And you've seen something of the world?
00:29:16Enough, sir, to dislike what I've seen and to know there's small hope for a better.
00:29:20Perhaps you'll prefer the next world, Mr. Mercy.
00:29:24You were close enough to it when you were in the condemned hold at Newgate.
00:29:30But I'm keeping you from your dinner.
00:29:48And now, gentlemen, the toast to the king.
00:29:53And since proposing it is the privilege of the youngest present, the honor falls to Mr. Mercy.
00:30:03Mr. Mercy, we're waiting.
00:30:05No, sir.
00:30:06Since I have little love for the king, I'll neither propose his health nor drink it.
00:30:11Nevertheless, you are on a king's ship.
00:30:13King's ship of the devils.
00:30:14It's all the same to me, sir.
00:30:15I owe him nothing.
00:30:17You owe him your neck, Mr. Mercy.
00:30:20If it were not for his bounty, you'd be dancing daintily on air at Wapping.
00:30:25I owe my reprieve to you, Captain.
00:30:27So to you, I'll drink and gladly, but not to William.
00:30:31You stand up and drink to his majesty's health as a king's officer should.
00:30:35Or by fire and flame, I'll have you shipped back to Newgate on the first vessel we speak.
00:30:48Gentlemen, the king.
00:30:50The king, you've got a blessing.
00:30:51God bless him.
00:31:13That's curious.
00:31:15Do you suppose his majesty put him on board to spy us out?
00:31:20We found him chained to a pillar at Newgate.
00:31:23It wouldn't be too hard for the king to plant him there.
00:31:26Yes, but why would he speak so openly against the king?
00:31:29Your wits are even duller than usual, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:31:33Have you never heard of the serpent that takes the color of its background the better to strike?
00:31:41Shadwell.
00:31:44Yes, sir?
00:31:47You have a knowledge of high-born people and those at the court, Shadwell.
00:31:51Have you ever seen Mr. Mercy before?
00:31:54Not before this void, sir.
00:31:55He's as high of spirit as a gentleman of quality.
00:31:58I like him.
00:32:00Would you find out who he is and where he comes from?
00:32:04As you wish, sir.
00:32:05Thank you, Shadwell.
00:32:07Oh.
00:32:28Foggy night, sir.
00:32:30Good evening, Shadwell.
00:32:32Excuse me, sir, but you seafaring men always seem to be looking at something that I never can see.
00:32:37We are looking for something just over the horizon.
00:32:40You know, sir, I recognized you for a gentleman the moment I saw you, sir.
00:32:44What are you, a valet, doing at sea?
00:32:47The captain employed me to make him socially acceptable, sir.
00:32:53I'm afraid we are too far out for me to swim back.
00:32:57But if I can be of service to you, sir.
00:32:59Did the captain send you here?
00:33:02Yes, sir.
00:33:02Why?
00:33:04He wants to know who or what you are, sir.
00:33:07Who do they think I am?
00:33:11Possibly a spy placed on board by his majesty.
00:33:14They seemed uneasy, sir.
00:33:16Hmm.
00:33:18This, uh, this captain Kidd, how long have you known him?
00:33:22Have you sailed with him before?
00:33:23Oh, no, sir.
00:33:25All I know is he's, uh, well, among other things, a merchant captain.
00:33:34A spy, that's strange.
00:33:36Why should they be afraid to be spied on?
00:33:40Good night, Chuck.
00:33:41Good night, sir.
00:33:52Who is he?
00:33:53Where is he from?
00:33:55He's a nobody, sir.
00:33:57He was employed by persons of quality where he learned his speech and his manners.
00:34:01Oh.
00:34:02Hmm.
00:34:35It's a matter of justice.
00:34:36Judge, if you fire on the up-roll, the shot will go over his yards.
00:34:40But if you wait for the down-roll and the enemy is coming up, now watch.
00:34:53Get ready.
00:34:59Fire.
00:35:03Hey!
00:35:04Hey!
00:35:06Pretty shocked, Mr. Mercy.
00:35:08Can you do as well with a .74 throwing grape and canister at you?
00:35:13I've done it, sir.
00:35:15Reload and secure.
00:35:16And pick up your practice on the larboard quarter swivel gun.
00:35:19Mr. Mercy, you've sailed with Avery.
00:35:23You must know these waters.
00:35:24Fairly soon.
00:35:25If we needed to careen and take on stores, where would you recommend?
00:35:29The poverty base, sir.
00:35:30It lies just...
00:35:30We draw too much water.
00:35:31You remember, Captain, we...
00:35:33Remember?
00:35:34Remember what?
00:35:36I only know the Spanish main.
00:35:37These are Madagascar waters.
00:35:40Poverty Bay.
00:35:41Aye, sir.
00:35:41Thank you, Mr. Mercy.
00:35:42Come along, Mr. Boyle.
00:35:51You're blundering ass.
00:35:55Your presence is becoming increasingly irksome to me.
00:36:00Get you below.
00:36:32Now, let's get down to the business of this voyage.
00:36:36Hand me that chart, Mr. Boyle.
00:36:41It's got to be done.
00:36:42I 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?
00:36:50Let'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.
00:36:59Now, here's our present position.
00:37:03Here's Madagascar.
00:37:05Here's Calicut.
00:37:07In June, the great galleon, the Quida 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
00:37:21with treasure to the value of half a million pounds.
00:37:24And we are to give her safe passage
00:37:28through the pirate seas.
00:37:31By safe passage, you mean where to take her, Captain?
00:37:34Now, now, now.
00:37:34Don't be greedy, Mr. Povey.
00:37:36I grant that most of what sinner may find its way
00:37:38into 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
00:37:48and honest.
00:37:50Stick to ways you're familiar with.
00:37:52Why, you pox-rattled, Bill,
00:37:54and I can be as honest as any man
00:37:55if I have the incentive.
00:37:56Who?
00:37:57Yes, me Lord Blaine.
00:38:01Lord Blaine's name is not to be mentioned
00:38:03among us, Mr. Povey.
00:38:04He's dead, so's his crew,
00:38:06and so's ours,
00:38:07and there's none outside this cabin
00:38:09that knows what became of them.
00:38:10And if you all enjoy living,
00:38:13you will remember that.
00:38:17Well,
00:38:19here's to our meeting
00:38:20with 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.
00:38:43Dios la bendiga.
00:39:18Wind fresh from west-northwest, sir.
00:39:21Course, no east-by-east.
00:39:22Night dark, but clear.
00:39:23Very well, Mr. Mercy.
00:39:38No east-by-east.
00:39:39Now east-by-east.
00:40:07Come on, sir.
00:40:13Listen down!
00:40:15It's Mr. Byron!
00:40:16Send a handman!
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?
00:40:49Someone's been tampering with these lines.
00:41:12We are gathered together to bid farewell to a gallant seaman and a stout comrade.
00:41:21Here was a man, shipmates, whose heart the flinty mountains could not match, who 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.
00:41:39A jealous providence has removed him from us, and I esteem it a privilege to commit his body to the
00:41:48deep.
00:41:48We shall all mourn him.
00:41:52I, we shall mourn him, but take comfort, my 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.
00:42:13Then you will take his place as master.
00:42:15As master.
00:42:18Aye, sir.
00:42:43Oh.
00:42:52Why, shut.
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.
00:43:09And when I find a common ship master has the presumption to copy himself the coat of arms of one
00:43:15of our best Dorsetshire families,
00:43:17can you wonder if I'm physically upset?
00:43:19Well, whose 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.
00:43:34With Mr. Lorenzo.
00:43:42I'm sure.
00:43:55I know you, sir.
00:43:56Goodbye.
00:43:57Goodbye.
00:43:59Goodbye, sir.
00:44:02Bye, sir.
00:44:03Goodbye, sir.
00:44:03Bye, sir.
00:44:04Goodbye, sir.
00:44:04Bye, sir.
00:44:04Bye, sir.
00:44:05Bye, sir.
00:44:09I was chatting with you, sir.
00:44:09Let's go.
00:44:46Let's go.
00:45:10Well, Mr. Mercy.
00:45:13Do your new duties include robbing my desk?
00:45:17Shoot me, Captain, and your head goes with it.
00:45:20I'm here by the King's orders.
00:45:22So he did plant you on board.
00:45:25You think he'd let a man sail with a crew and you get cutthroats and not keep tabs on him?
00:45:28And with good reason, if anything ever wreaked the piracy, this does.
00:45:32And murder, Captain.
00:45:34Boyle's death was no accident.
00:45:36By the way, what ship was sunk here?
00:45:40The Twelve Apostles?
00:45:42Why the Twelve Apostles, Mr. Mercy?
00:45:47There's Blaine's ring.
00:45:48His name's on it.
00:45:49And he commanded the Twelve Apostles.
00:45:51That'll make interesting telling in London when we get back, Captain.
00:45:54If you get back.
00:45:55When I get back, for if I don't.
00:46:00On the other hand.
00:46:02On the other hand, what?
00:46:04Since a man doesn't exactly grow rich in the King's pay.
00:46:08Oh.
00:46:10A crooked rogue.
00:46:12So you have your price.
00:46:14How much?
00:46:15An equal share in what's buried here.
00:46:17Share that with you.
00:46:18I'll be hanged if I do.
00:46:19You'll be hanged if you don't.
00:46:21Of all the slumachy blackguards.
00:46:28And if you do share Mr. King's informer, what guarantee is there that you won't still turn evidence for the
00:46:35crown?
00:46:36If I go in with you, I'm equally guilty.
00:46:38And if we're caught, we hang together.
00:46:41But I can keep you from being caught.
00:46:44What more could you ask?
00:46:48You know, Mr. Mercy, I've wondered sometimes if ever I'd meet a more unscrupulous blackguard than myself.
00:46:56And I have.
00:46:59Well, let's be sensible about this.
00:47:01Who knows?
00:47:03We might be useful to each other one day.
00:47:05In one way or another?
00:47:09You've forgotten something.
00:47:11By a ring.
00:47:13So I have.
00:47:28Listen in carefully.
00:47:29Because I want you to tell it in London if anything happens to me.
00:47:33Kid caught me in his cabin robbing his desk.
00:47:35I lied to him.
00:47:36Told him I was a King's informer.
00:47:37Good.
00:47:38Yes, but he didn't believe me.
00:47:39Not one word.
00:47:39He just pretended to.
00:47:41Oh, why didn't you shoot him?
00:47:43Then he will give us no more trouble.
00:47:44Well, that's a pleasure I'm reserving for later.
00:47:48If he proves the liar I think him, King's man or no, he betrayed an uncommon interest in the Twelve
00:47:54Apostles.
00:47:55I didn't like them, Mr. Lorenzo, and I mean to find out why.
00:47:58Why, you could have charged him with robbery and turned him off at a yardarm, all legal and ship-shaped.
00:48:03We would have been rid of him once and for all.
00:48:05Let's not be impetuous, Mr. Povey.
00:48:06He 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.
00:48:14Leave Mr. Mercy to me.
00:48:42You rest easy.
00:49:10Have the boatswain pipe to court us.
00:49:24It's the Quida merchant, sure enough.
00:49:30Can you make her out, Captain Rawson?
00:49:33Hmm.
00:49:36She hasn't the cut of a buccaneer, Your Excellency.
00:49:40Much too tidy for that, more like a king's ship.
00:49:43Yet she has the lines of a merchantman.
00:49:47Have the longboat ready and manned.
00:49:50Longboat, 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?
00:50:17Well, we'll make dead certain just the same.
00:50:20Mr. Hilliard, see that all hands are at the station.
00:50:23Very good, sir.
00:50:29Ready?
00:50:30Fire!
00:50:34Well, first, Mr. Mercy.
00:50:36How to starboard.
00:50:37After 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 king's ship.
00:50:58Aye, sir.
00:51:13Captain William Kidd of his majesty's privateer adventure at your service, sir.
00:51:18Mr. Povey, my surgeon.
00:51:20Mr. Mercy, my master.
00:51:22Mr. 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 near 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?
00:52:05Oh, Mr. Hilliard, take Mr. Lorenzo below and see that he gets what he wants.
00:52:08Aye, aye, sir.
00:52:09Captain.
00:52:27I'll send to the master gunner.
00:52:28He'll take care of all your needs.
00:52:30Uh-huh.
00:52:59I'll send you to the master gunner.
00:53:00Mr. Lorenzo!
00:53:08Take this powder and put it in the long boat.
00:53:11Yes.
00:53:23Gentlemen, my daughter.
00:53:25The Lady Anne Dunstan.
00:53:27Captain Kidd, Mr. Povey, Mr. Mercy.
00:53:36Haven'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, and 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...
00:54:08Well, I suppose we could take Lord Falsworth and Lady Anne aboard the adventure till Madagascar's astern, and then if
00:54:19we are separated, then this vessel should be taken.
00:54:22What about the treasure on board?
00:54:25One silver chest alone, a present to his majesty from the Grand Mogul, contains precious gems valued at more than
00:54:33a million pounds.
00:54:33May I suggest, Your Excellency, now why not transfer the treasure chest with yourself and Lady Anne on board the
00:54:42adventure until we are out of 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 just...
00:54:57What else can we do?
00:54:59Three of them against us, well, 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 now 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.
00:55:16This way, Captain.
00:55:16No trouble at all.
00:55:27Hoist away.
00:55:34Mr. Povey.
00:55:37I've sent for the manifest, Captain.
00:55:38You may check it against the contents of this chest and give me your receipt, if you will.
00:55:43Gladly, gladly.
00:55:45Oh, there you are, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:55:47Have you completed your business?
00:55:49Almost, sir.
00:55:51Your people have been most kind, Captain 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, Captain.
00:56:05Oh, the manifest, sir.
00:56:06Would you attend to that, Mr. Povey?
00:56:08Thank you very much, Captain.
00:56:10Thank you very much, Captain.
00:56:10Come on.
00:56:47Come, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:56:49You've seen your lovely lady before this.
00:56:52A tribute to your beauty, ma'am.
00:56:56Did you finish your business below?
00:56:59Yes, Captain.
00:57:00Then we'd better be underway.
00:57:03Mr. Mercy, you will see Lord Farlsworth and the Lady Anne into the boat.
00:57:07Yes, sir.
00:57:25Make way for the longboard.
00:57:37Lord Farlsworth and the Lady Anne into the boat.
00:57:58You will look after the loading, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:58:03I apologize, my lady, for our poor accommodations, but my valet Shadwell will see that you'll
00:58:07make comfortable.
00:58:08It's a pleasure to have your ladyship aboard.
00:58:10If you'll follow me, please.
00:58:24Why hasn't it happened?
00:58:38She's blown up.
00:58:39Someone must have touched off the magazine.
00:58:41Send out our boats at once, sir.
00:58:45You're going to ask me to risk men near that?
00:58:47I don't want to sell it.
00:58:51Let me go, Lord.
00:58:52Captain.
00:58:56Father!
00:58:57Father!
00:58:57Let's go.
00:59:40Excuse me, milady.
00:59:43Your 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.
00:59:57But 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.
01:00:29When I opened it, there he was, that evil smiling face of his.
01:00:34Well, he might better belong with those pirates you fought a few days ago.
01:00:40Pirates, milady?
01:00:42We fought no pirates.
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, but who is he?
01:01:30All 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.
01:02:07Uh-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 dreamt of a beautiful woman like that.
01:02:31Give me half of my dinero now, and you can split the rest between you, if you will let me
01:02:36have her.
01:02:38Fire on him.
01:02:40He's smit with love again.
01:02:44I want her, and 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, the 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.
01:03:18I 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.
01:03:44Two.
01:04:05Who is it?
01:04:06Adam, where is she?
01:04:09Mr. Moussey, I'm...
01:04:34Thank you for coming, Mr. Moussey.
01:04:35I'm...
01:04:36Her name's Adam Blaine.
01:04:38Son of Lord Blaine.
01:04:40I knew it.
01:04:41I knew it.
01:04:43But what are you doing on this ship?
01:04:45My father was killed and accused of piracy.
01:04:47Few people believed Lord Blaine.
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.
01:05:08He 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.
01:05:20You 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 as little compunction as he means to kill me.
01:05:31If I let him.
01:05:34What can I do to help?
01:05:35There must be something.
01:05:39Forget everything you've seen on this ship.
01:05:41Play up time.
01:05:42Befriend me.
01:05:43That way you'll be safe.
01:05:44Now when you get back to London, no matter what has happened to me,
01:05:47go to the lords of the Admiralty 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 the Renzo.
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 Peter Merchant as an accident.
01:06:15Maybe even the sudden demise of Lord Balsworth.
01:06:18But what about the lady?
01:06:20You 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,
01:06:31I 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 pa,
01:06:41receive the grateful thanks of me sovereign,
01:06:44and a peerage is mine, my 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, do not be alarmed.
01:07:08Now that she knows who I am and the kind of a ship she's on,
01:07:11I think we can count on to keep ahead.
01:07:13You stay here till I come off watch.
01:07:17Help!
01:07:38Shadwell!
01:07:44Use your head, Mr. Povey.
01:07:47Luck's with us tonight.
01:07:48Which of either of them would you like to see survive?
01:07:51Cheers!
01:07:54Cheers!
01:08:01Cheers!
01:08:04Cheers!
01:08:06Cheers!
01:08:07Feels good.
01:08:13Oh, my God.
01:08:42Mr. Mercy, you did well to protect her.
01:09:18Are you all right, sir?
01:09:19Yes, I'm all right.
01:09:20Look 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.
01:09:38Oh, my God.
01:10:00Shadwell 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.
01:10:14Shadwell, if anything does happen,
01:10:16remember you to stand by Lady Anne
01:10:17and see that she gets safely to London.
01:10:18I'll stake my life on it, sir.
01:10:20I know you will.
01:10:21Be 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,
01:10:50and while the crew's getting it on board,
01:10:52you and me and Mr. Mercy's going to the cave.
01:10:56You're going to take him in there?
01:10:57I've a peculiar humor to watch my clever young friends fizz
01:11:01when we dig up that chest.
01:11:04Sweet dreams.
01:11:25Sweet dreams.
01:11:30Sweet dreams.
01:11:33Sweet dreams.
01:11:36Sweet dreams.
01:11:44Let's go.
01:12:18Let's go.
01:12:40Who might this be?
01:12:44Perhaps a man that asked too many questions.
01:12:56Gently now, Mr. Mercy.
01:12:58You've come on something.
01:13:08So it was the Twelve Apostles, eh, Captain?
01:13:11Yes, it was, Mr. Mercy.
01:13:16Open it up.
01:13:41Planes.
01:13:45Planes.
01:13:48He was a brave seaman, but foolish.
01:13:51Did you happen to know him, Mr. Mercy?
01:13:53I'd heard of him.
01:13:56I thought perhaps you had.
01:14:00This is yours.
01:14:05Isn't it?
01:14:07I, uh, traded a ring for it.
01:14:10One of Avery's men.
01:14:12Yes.
01:14:13When I encountered Lord Blaine at sea, I did my simple duty as a loyal subject.
01:14:19A pity he turned pirate and traitor to his king.
01:14:23Liar.
01:14:26Liar.
01:14:26Come on.
01:15:00Come on.
01:15:11He's meet 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.
01:15:20Lady Anne.
01:15:21It's a long voyage home, Mr. Povey.
01:15:24And anything might happen.
01:15:33It's a long voyage.
01:15:34Naturally, 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.
01:15:42My heart bleeds.
01:15:50Confound you, Shadwell.
01:15:51Well, you drove the thought right out of me head.
01:15:53And it was an uncommon pretty one.
01:15:55I'm sure of that, sir.
01:15:57Got her at once.
01:15:59Tell her she can't mourn forever, and I shall expect her to take her meals in the main cabin with
01:16:03the rest of us.
01:16:05Very well, sir.
01:16:18Well, here's to him, wherever he is.
01:16:22Are you 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.
01:17:25I worked it alongside.
01:17:26It's secured right under this port.
01:17:28Bart get in it and drift aft under the main cabin.
01:17:31Well, now, get me some dry clothes.
01:17:32Shadwell, where's the captain?
01:17:33In his own cabin with Mr. Povey, sir.
01:17:35Examining 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.
01:17:45Yes, sir.
01:17:58Bowson?
01:17:59Aye, sir.
01:18:00Browse out both watches at daybreak.
01:18:02We're waiting on the morning tide.
01:18:05Aye, sir.
01:18:21Adam.
01:18:24Kidd 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.
01:18:39England?
01:18:41No.
01:18:41Come on.
01:18:45Come on.
01:18:59Get down in the bow.
01:19:08Good-bye, Brady.
01:19:10Good-bye, Lord.
01:19:12Godspeed.
01:19:21I see you in England.
01:19:26Ahoy there!
01:19:27Who's in that boat now?
01:19:29Come on.
01:19:31Come on!
01:19:58Me lords, come on.
01:20:09Fire!
01:20:12And the longboats!
01:20:23Fire!
01:20:26Fire!
01:20:31Fire!
01:20:31Hold on to me.
01:20:42Take her away!
01:21:05Hey, he's dead as a mackerel.
01:21:07He's gone, too.
01:21:09Well, I guess that's the end of him, eh, Captain?
01:21:11Ah, and good wriggles.
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.
01:21:52Spoil sport.
01:22:05THE END
01:22:52Captain William Kidd.
01:23:03THE END
01:23:03Greetings, Captain.
01:23:05What news have you brought me from the Indian Seas?
01:23:08By 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 about the affair of the Queen's godchild, Lady Anne Dunstan, and your shipmaster,
01:23:27Mr. Mercy.
01:23:27Oh, that poor impetuous fellow, sire.
01:23:30In vagal, that bud of innocence he did into running away with him, and catching him red-handed in defence
01:23:37of my very life.
01:23:38I was forced to dispatch him, and I was forced to dispatch them both.
01:23:42Rest in peace.
01:23:45Tell me, Captain, about the treasure, and the Cuida merchant.
01:23:50Unfortunate, sire, most unfortunate.
01:23:54We'd ship but that chest, when up she blew, and 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, do you encounter any trace?
01:24:10Nay, sire.
01:24:12I can only hope that the weight of his sin sank both him and his ship.
01:24:16I see.
01:24:18Then how do you explain this?
01:24:26Whose might that be, Your Majesty?
01:24:28My officers found it on your ship at Plymouth after you'd left for London.
01:24:32It bears the Blaine crest, with which I believe you are not unfamiliar.
01:24:36I've always felt that Mr. Povey, Miss Surgeon, a very wily fellow indeed, was hiding something from me.
01:24:42Hiding it in a secret lacerate 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?
01:24:58Sounding dreadful queer about all this, Your Majesty.
01:25:00Enough of your lies!
01:25:13Nightmare!
01:25:15A pity you overlooked last hope, Captain.
01:25:18We stood on the headland with my friend Avery and watched you sail by.
01:25:21May it please, Your Majesty, I 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 ought to be tried for his life.
01:25:39Hands off me, you scum!
01:25:42All I've done was to the credit and for the honor and glory of England.
01:25:50So here's my bequest to them what hunts what I have hid, and to their sons' sons, down through the
01:26:01endless corridors of time.
01:26:04Greed that spawns murder, hatred that corrodes the soul, ambition, the foulest trumpet of all.
01:26:21Hey, Jack! Jack, Jack Kidd! Sell me a bit of that rope for sixpence, will ya?
01:26:27Save your money, me lads. You can have it all for nothing if you'd only step up here and wear
01:26:35it.
01:26:38I need it up, Jack. Can't wait forever.
01:26:46Captain Kidd is dead, my lord Blaine. His account is closed.
01:26:50Now, 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 50 guns, commissioned for American waters, sire, that we thought of naming the Lady Anne.
01:27:06It shall be a wedding gift to you from the crown, for your loyalty and service to king and country.
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