Captain Kidd is a 1945 American adventure film directed by Rowland V. Lee. The story follows the infamous pirate Captain William Kidd, who cunningly presents himself as a loyal servant to King William III of England. Kidd is granted a royal commission to escort a treasure-laden ship back to England, but his true intentions are far from noble. Along the way, he recruits a crew of condemned pirates and navigates a web of deception, betrayal, and high-seas intrigue. Charles Laughton delivers a memorable performance as the mischievous and manipulative Captain Kidd, making this film a classic in the swashbuckler genre.
Credits:
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Producer: Benedict Bogeaus
Starring: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine
Screenplay: Norman Reilly Raine
Cinematography: Archie Stout
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Credits:
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Producer: Benedict Bogeaus
Starring: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine
Screenplay: Norman Reilly Raine
Cinematography: Archie Stout
#CaptainKidd1945 #CharlesLaughton #ClassicHollywood #AdventureFilm
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00:00:00The End
00:01:00Madagascar, for centuries the bloodiest cockpit of all the seas, where the infamous Brotherhood of the Damned waited to plunder the treasure-laden galleons from India and Cathay, then returned, drunk with slaughter, to their pirate stronghold of last hope.
00:01:28Most ruthless of all was Captain William Kidd. He encountered the great London galleon, the Twelve Apostles, commanded by Admiral Lord Blaine, and approaching unsuspected in the guise of a peaceful merchantman, by a sudden treacherous salvo, he reduced her to a burning hulk.
00:01:45When night fell, the Twelve Apostles was only a blazing funeral pyre on the placid surface of a Madagascar lagoon.
00:01:54Stapley, there's a pretty sight.
00:01:59It'll be prettier still when the fire reaches the magazine, Captain.
00:02:02Pretty, though. Lots of stout seamen among them. They've been with us a long time.
00:02:07We can none of us live forever, Mr. Boyle. Dead men don't talk.
00:02:12Man your own. We've got this job to do before high tide.
00:02:15We've got this job done.
00:02:20235
00:02:36There, and dig past as the tide catches on the ground.
00:02:39There, and dig past as the tide catches on the ground.
00:02:42There, and dig past. As the tide catches there, it'll save for the King's hangman some rope.
00:03:03There, and dig past. As the tide catches there, it'll save for the King's hangman some rope.
00:03:12There you are. Deep enough to bury a man in. Give us a hammer.
00:03:24All ready, Captain. Down she goes.
00:03:34What are you waiting for?
00:03:36Well, Captain, that chest's been in your cabin a longish time.
00:03:39Then we all thought as how it wouldn't do no harm to open up that chest and make sure that what was in it then is in it now.
00:03:46I suppose you remember what was in it?
00:03:49I... I remember an emerald necklace that came off that Portuguese ship, El Vengar.
00:03:53And all those pearls that we took from the big ship, the Virgin Queen.
00:03:58I remember a diamond medallion we got from that Moorish galleon off Madagascar.
00:04:02And could we ever forget that silver casket with the arms of Lord Blaine that you claimed for yourself after the taking of the Twelve Apostles, sir?
00:04:10Your neck will be stretched as long as your memory one of these days.
00:04:13What is it?
00:04:30Satisfied? Gallows? Meat?
00:04:33Put them back.
00:04:43Put them back.
00:04:48Lower away.
00:05:08What's the matter?
00:05:09Wait a minute, Captain. There's something else you forgot.
00:05:11What do you want now? We've got but half an hour before the tide traps us.
00:05:14That's as may be, sir.
00:05:16We're all equal in this, I take it?
00:05:17Equal shares, yes.
00:05:19Well, that key then, what you put back in your belt, that goes down with the chest.
00:05:23Thus we start's all clear and no favors.
00:05:26And if some of us don't get back, it'll be that much easier open for them as does.
00:05:30Question my honor again, would you? I'll rip you from belly to chime.
00:05:39I'll rip you from the back.
00:05:48OK.
00:05:54Are we such callous rascals that we'd leave a dead comrade without commending his soul to his new master?
00:06:01soul to his new master. Here lieth one who through treachery and avarice would
00:06:13have placed in jeopardy the lives of honest men. And here may he lie forever
00:06:20in the sands of Madagascar. Rest in peace. It's time to be out, my lad. It's time to be away.
00:06:31If a gentleman's a gentleman, he's a gentleman. That's all there is to it, sir. I'm one of nature's
00:06:57gentlemen, but I need polish, my good man. If I'm to improve myself... The gentleman employs the
00:07:03terminology, my good man, only when addressing lower servants or his inferior, sir. You see,
00:07:09that's why I need you. My upbringing... The gentleman never sucks his teeth, sir. Many a man's social
00:07:17career has been ruined by less, sir. You seem to know your business. I want the best mind,
00:07:22then I can pay for it. A hundred quid a year. An infallible mark of a person of quality is his
00:07:29reluctance to pay his domestics high wages. Don't say so. Merely an idiosyncrasy of good breeding, sir.
00:07:37Sixty quid a year, then? You realize I've never been on board a ship before, sir. Oh, don't let that
00:07:43frighten you. To the contrary. In fact, since I was a nipper, I've had rather an adventurous inclination
00:07:49toward life on the bounding man. It should be quite educational, sir. You'll learn a lot, no doubt.
00:07:57Is it a bargain, then? Very well, sir. My hand on it?
00:08:03Oh.
00:08:19You do.
00:08:35Then, it is your proposal, my Lord Bellarmint, that Captain Kidd sail to meet our ambassador,
00:09:02Lord Fallsworth, and give him a safe convoy through the parrot waters of Madagascar.
00:09:07May it please your majesty, yes.
00:09:10That needs a bold and adventurous man.
00:09:13Bring in this Captain Kidd while we take the measure of him.
00:09:22Captain William Kidd.
00:09:23Captain Kidd.
00:09:33Your Royal Majesty.
00:09:36Men over Lords.
00:09:40Belmont, is this your roaring killer of Spanish buccaneers?
00:09:44Me, my lad, I 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?
00:10:00I 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.
00:10:12Name of Lord Blaine.
00:10:15He did turn pirate, then?
00:10:17Sufficiently, me lad, to put fear in honest traders like myself.
00:10:24And 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 pirate.
00:10:34I 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 restreeted and his title forfeit?
00:10:47Yes.
00:10:49All I ask is that if I lay this renegade nobleman by the heels, is that you honour me humble self with his castle and his lands?
00:11:00Is that all you want, Captain Kidd?
00:11:07Not a Farden more, Your Majesty.
00:11:10Hmm.
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 than you can judge the extent of a 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?
00:11:33Come, Captain.
00:11:40Is your courage less than your wit?
00:11:43Nay, sir.
00:11:43I know nothing of the fence.
00:11:47You must come at me quickly as though you'd kill me.
00:11:51Very well, then.
00:11:52I 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.
00:12:15Aye, thank you, sir.
00:12:18And now, Captain.
00:12:19The main mission of your cruise will be to meet a great ship, the Cuida Merchant, which is sailing from India with vast treasures.
00:12:28And to give her safe conduct, in my name, past the pirate waters of Madagascar.
00:12:34But, 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.
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.
00:12:53Oh, 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.
00:13:12Thus none would be so loyal, nor fight so desperate as cutthroats under sentence of death,
00:13:18if they knew that at 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.
00:13:34And now, goodbye.
00:13:37And Godspeed, you.
00:13:39I am but his unworthy sparrow.
00:13:43I am so proud of you.
00:13:57I am so proud of you.
00:14:09I'd rather eat the billed scum from an African slaver.
00:14:20Adam, don't let that temper get you the lash again.
00:14:23If 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
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.
00:15:06Here, your governor!
00:15:07What sort of a kingdom is this?
00:15:10Where a man's condemned before he's heard
00:15:12and starved before they're hanging?
00:15:14Who's that quarrelsome fellow?
00:15:16Adam Mercy.
00:15:16He was taken in a pirate ship
00:15:18by His Majesty's frigate wasp.
00:15:20He's always escaping,
00:15:21so that's why we keep him in chains.
00:15:23He's got a lacing of tiger's blood in him.
00:15:27Poof!
00:15:28There's ain't exactly a flower garden, is it?
00:15:31Oh, 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,
00:15:44do you think that he's anyone down there
00:15:47who knows us?
00:15:48I hope not.
00:15:49Governor, would you be good enough
00:15:50to tell them what we're here for?
00:15:53Give heed, you, you vermin.
00:15:57Here'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
00:16:03into an honest woman?
00:16:04Silence, you mutinous dogs.
00:16:07If another man speaks,
00:16:08I'll trice him up by the thumbs
00:16:09and flay him raw.
00:16:12Governor,
00:16:13is that the way
00:16:14to win the love
00:16:16of these unfortunate gentlemen?
00:16:19Now then, me bullies,
00:16:20would you rather do the gallows dance
00:16:23and hang in chains
00:16:24till the crows pick your eyes
00:16:26from your rotting skulls,
00:16:28or would you feel the roll
00:16:30of a stout ship
00:16:32beneath your feet again?
00:16:34I'm a vessel,
00:16:35the Adventure Galley,
00:16:37and the King's Commissioned
00:16:39a Sailor,
00:16:40and for those who show
00:16:41a loyal and a stout heart,
00:16:44there's a royal pardon
00:16:45in the offing.
00:16:48Which of you
00:16:49knows the waters
00:16:51off Madagascar?
00:16:52I do.
00:16:54Would you have him
00:16:55unlocked, Governor?
00:16:58Water,
00:16:59unlock him.
00:17:00Look you then.
00:17:04I want men
00:17:05with iron in their blood
00:17:06and steel in their sinews.
00:17:09And the first up here
00:17:10is the first enlisted.
00:17:12Governor,
00:17:12if your waters are ready,
00:17:13would you be good enough
00:17:14to have them lower the ropes?
00:17:15Lower away!
00:17:16Here they come.
00:17:34Make ready, lads.
00:17:35Lay your hands on that,
00:17:45I'll make you a free man.
00:17:51Yellow one now.
00:17:55Excellent.
00:17:56Thanks, one.
00:18:10Come on.
00:18:16Name?
00:18:17Peter Shafto.
00:18:18Peter Shafto.
00:18:19Regardless of the fact
00:18:20that I'm your captain,
00:18:22you will always address
00:18:23a gentleman
00:18:23as sirs, 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
00:18:43handle for a blade
00:18:44of fortune.
00:18:45Mercy.
00:18:46It's also something
00:18:47the world needs more of.
00:18:49Fire and death
00:18:49of philosopher.
00:18:50You speak cultured.
00:18:52Were you by any chance
00:18:53stable boy
00:18:53to a noble house?
00:18:55Perhaps.
00:18:57I was also
00:18:58master gunner
00:18:58to a buccaneer
00:18:59you may have heard of,
00:19:01Captain Avery.
00:19:03Avery's master gunner.
00:19:06We've need of a master gunner,
00:19:08Mr. Boyle,
00:19:08and from what I've heard,
00:19:10Avery was a shrewd hand
00:19:11at picking them.
00:19:13The berth's yours
00:19:15for as long
00:19:15as you can handle it.
00:19:17I can handle it.
00:19:18Swivel gunner long time.
00:19:20I'll forfeit a guinea
00:19:20for every miss.
00:19:21You'll forfeit your neck
00:19:23if you miss
00:19:23while you're on my ship.
00:19:25Make your mark.
00:19:29And you can write.
00:19:32We'll give you
00:19:33a nice bath.
00:19:35You'll draw a uniform
00:19:36befitting a master gunner.
00:19:38On board.
00:19:39Next, ma'am.
00:19:41Ma'am.
00:19:42Bartholomew Blivens, sir.
00:19:43Bartholomew Blivens.
00:19:45Bartholomew Blivens.
00:20:15He's over there, sir.
00:20:24Next, man.
00:20:25That's all, sir.
00:20:26Our compliments full.
00:20:30Bovey.
00:20:32I thought you...
00:20:33Yes.
00:20:34You thought I was dead.
00:20:35i can hardly believe my eyes you mean you don't want to believe come come mr povey is that kind
00:20:52or is that fair as fair as what you did that day you abandoned me on a bahama reef if you please
00:20:57mr povey it is not the time to talk about that oh it's the time all right unless you want me to
00:21:02know in which case your present voyage is over before it's begun no no no no povey mr boyle
00:21:10would you take over please mr lorenzo take the deck watch come to my cabin
00:21:32my heart bleeds when i think of one of your delicate constitution having to fend for
00:21:48yourself on a coral reef mr bovey come off it captain
00:21:55i know why you marooned me it was so there'd be only three of you to share instead of four
00:22:01it's true a hostile wind did blow us away from your reef between friends we might have sailed back at
00:22:08exactly what you would have done mr povey so no more of your sentimental nonsense please
00:22:17now that we are four again what then we're not four
00:22:21four we're two boyland 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 a knife in the dark i'm not a violent man mr povey i detest violence people have such an awkward
00:22:47habit of getting in my way
00:22:51i am an ambitious man mr povey an ambitious man if he be bold enough can carve himself a kingdom
00:23:01i'm going to be a lord my friend and that for a commoner like myself takes a deal of money
00:23:08and that's why there could be two less to share before we raise old england again you cold gutted shark
00:23:19oh how a flatterer
00:23:25i'm glad you're back again mr povey you've no idea how gratifying it is to have a congenial soul
00:23:33to confide in thank you oh there's something i want to tell you
00:23:40i have left with a trend a sealed letter containing an exact and complete account of certain previous
00:23:46happenings only to be opened in case just in case of course you should happen to return to england
00:23:53without me of course my dear fellow very sensible of you now i know you'll have a happy voyage i shall too
00:24:10have a happy voyage i'll look up me quarters
00:24:40so
00:25:00so
00:25:40We are two of the luckiest men alive.
00:25:45Just think, we're sailing for Madagascar waters.
00:25:49We'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.
00:26:02Yes, I've spent a good many years of my life at sea, my lady.
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 me lady will join me in a minuet.
00:26:17My lady, sir, not me lady.
00:26:20Blast 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.
00:26:29I'm a gentleman's gentleman.
00:26:34Give me about the hair.
00:26:36I suppose you've tried everything.
00:26:44Bears, grease.
00:26:47Prenatal influence, perhaps.
00:26:53Dinner is served, sir.
00:26:55Thank you, Shadwell.
00:26:57Pardon me, sir.
00:26:59I'll show you to your place.
00:27:08Captain, what's all this mormery?
00:27:10You can forget your bilgewater manners for the time, Mr. Boyle.
00:27:14You are now officers on a king's ship.
00:27:16So a man must starve while his manners fatten.
00:27:19I know, I know.
00:27:27And in a king's ship, it is customary for the officers to rise when the captain enters.
00:27:32That's better.
00:27:45Gentlemen, be seated.
00:27:53Ah.
00:27:56Well, well, well, what have we here?
00:27:58Ah.
00:28:02Of course, but don't press me.
00:28:41Come, Mr. Mercy.
00:28:45Tell us something about yourself.
00:28:48You 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.
00:28:57You were innocent, of course.
00:29:00No, sir, I was guilty.
00:29:02You speak above your station.
00:29:05How came you to go on the account?
00:29:07Call it love of adventure, crossed in love, a scandal?
00:29:11Perhaps 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 their small hope for a better.
00:29:21Perhaps you'll prefer the next world, Mr. Mercy.
00:29:25You were close enough to it when you were in the condemned hold of Nougat.
00:29:30But I'm keeping you from your dinner.
00:29:32And now, gentlemen, the toast to the King.
00:29:54And since proposing it as the privilege of the youngest present,
00:29:57the honor falls to Mr. Mercy.
00:30:04Mr. Mercy, we're waiting.
00:30:06No, sir.
00:30:07Since I've little love for the King,
00:30:08I'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.
00:30:16I owe him nothing.
00:30:18You owe him your neck, Mr. Mercy.
00:30:20If it were not for his bounty,
00:30:22you'd be dancing daintily on air at Wapping.
00:30:26I owe my reprieve to you, Captain.
00:30:28So to you, I'll drink and gladly, but not to William.
00:30:31You stand up and drink to his majesty's health,
00:30:34as a king's officer should.
00:30:36Or by fire and flame,
00:30:37I'll have you shipped back to Nougat on the first vessel we speak.
00:30:40Gentlemen, the king.
00:30:50The king, God bless you.
00:31:10That's curious.
00:31:16Do you suppose his majesty put him on board to spy us out?
00:31:20Well, we found him chained to a pillar at Nougat.
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?
00:31:30Your wits are even duller than usual, Mr. Lorenzo.
00:31:34Have you never heard of the serpent
00:31:36that takes the color of its background the better to strike?
00:31:40Shadwell.
00:31:44Yes, sir?
00:31:47You have a knowledge of high-born people
00:31:49and those at the court, Shadwell.
00:31:51Have you ever seen Mr. Mercy before?
00:31:54Not before this void, sir.
00:31:56He's as high of spirit as a gentleman of quality.
00:31:59I 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.
00:32:07I'll hold it.
00:32:10Good evening, Shadwell.
00:32:13Good evening, Shadwell.
00:32:16Good evening, Shadwell.
00:32:31Excuse me, sir, but you seafaring men
00:32:34always seem to be looking at something
00:32:36that 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
00:32:43the 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.
00:32:54I'm afraid we are too far out for me to swim back.
00:32:58But if I can be of service to you, sir...
00:33:00Did the captain send you here?
00:33:02Yes, sir.
00:33:03Why?
00:33:03He wants to know who or what you are, sir.
00:33:08Who do they think I am?
00:33:11Possibly a spy placed on board by his majesty.
00:33:15They seemed uneasy, sir.
00:33:17Hmm.
00:33:18This, uh...
00:33:20This Captain Kidd, how long have you known him?
00:33:22Have you sailed with him before?
00:33:24Oh, no, sir.
00:33:26All I know is he's, uh...
00:33:28Well, among other things,
00:33:32a merchant captain.
00:33:34A spy, that's strange.
00:33:36Why should they be afraid to be spied on?
00:33:41Good night, Shadwell.
00:33:42Good night, sir.
00:33:50Who is he?
00:33:54Where's he from?
00:33:55He's a nobody, sir.
00:33:57He was employed by persons of quality
00:33:59where he learned his speech and his manners.
00:34:01Oh.
00:34:02Hmm.
00:34:20It's a matter of judgment.
00:34:37If you fire on the up-roll,
00:34:39the shot will go over his yards.
00:34:41But if you wait for the down-roll,
00:34:42the enemy's coming up.
00:34:43Now watch.
00:34:50Get ready!
00:34:59Fire!
00:35:03Fire!
00:35:06Pretty shot, Mr. Mercy.
00:35:09Can you do as well with a .74
00:35:11throwing grape and canister at you?
00:35:13I've done it, sir.
00:35:15Reload and secure.
00:35:16Then pick up your practice
00:35:17on the lobbed quarter swivel gun.
00:35:19Mr. Mercy,
00:35:21you'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,
00:35:28where would you recommend?
00:35:29Poverty Bay, sir.
00:35:30We draw too much water.
00:35:32You remember, Captain.
00:35:33Remember?
00:35:34Remember what?
00:35:36I only know the Spanish main.
00:35:38These are Madagascar waters.
00:35:40Poverty Bay.
00:35:41Aye, sir.
00:35:41Thank you, Mr. Mercy.
00:35:42Come along, Mr. Boyle.
00:35:49Good blundering ass.
00:35:55If your presence is becoming increasingly irksome to me,
00:36:00it'll get you below.
00:36:01Good blundering ass.
00:36:02Your presence is becoming increasingly irksome to me.
00:36:03Get you below.
00:36:05Well, let's get down to the business of this void.
00:36:21Now, let's get down to the business of this voyage.
00:36:36Hand me that chart, Mr. Boyle.
00:36:41Capitan, 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?
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.
00:37:00Now, here's our present position.
00:37:04Here's Madagascar.
00:37:06Here's Calicut.
00:37:08In June, the great galleon, the Cuida merchant,
00:37:12sails from Calicut to England.
00:37:15We should meet her about here.
00:37:18She's stuffed from keel to gunwales with treasure to the value of half a million pounds.
00:37:24Half 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?
00:37:34No, no, no.
00:37:35Don't be greedy, Mr. Povey.
00:37:36I grant that most of what sinner 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 legal-like and honest.
00:37:50Stick to ways you're familiar with.
00:37:53Why, you pox-raddled 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.
00:38:05He'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.
00:38:11And if you all enjoy living, you will remember that.
00:38:17Well, here's to our meeting with the Cuida merchant.
00:38:22Cuida merchant.
00:38:23Cuida merchant.
00:38:24God bless her.
00:38:26God bless her.
00:38:27Dios la bendiga.
00:38:54Lord Blaine's name is not to be mentioned in the U.S.
00:38:57Lord Blaine's name is not to be mentioned in the U.S.
00:38:58In the U.S.
00:39:03Wind fresh from west to northwest, sir.
00:39:21Course snow east by east, night dark but clear.
00:39:23Very well, Mr. Mercier.
00:39:38Now east by east.
00:39:39Now east by east.
00:39:53Now east by east.
00:40:13Listen now!
00:40:14It's Mr. Byron!
00:40:16Send the hand men!
00:40:18Let'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.
00:40:38What do you suppose happened?
00:40:49Someone's been tampering with these lines.
00:41:08We 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,
00:41:28who always took better than he gave,
00:41:31whose benevolence was such,
00:41:34the orphan's might and the rich man's gold alike found refuge in his pocket.
00:41:40A jealous providence has removed him from us,
00:41:44and I esteem it a privilege to commit his body to the deep.
00:41:47We shall all mourn him.
00:41:51Aye, we shall mourn him,
00:41:54but take comfort, me friends.
00:41:56We shall never see his like again.
00:41:58Rest in peace.
00:42:02Pop him over.
00:42:06Pity, Mr. Mercier, a great pity, but the ship's work must go on.
00:42:10Move your gear into poor Mr. Boyle's cabin.
00:42:12You will take his place as master.
00:42:15As master.
00:42:18Aye, sir.
00:42:42Why, Shadwell.
00:42:45Don't tell me after all this time at sea you're still...
00:42:47My inward revolt is not from the movement of the vessel, sir.
00:42:49It's occasioned by the company I adieu.
00:42:51The manners I say nothing of, sir.
00:42:53But I'm a Dorsetshire man.
00:42:55And when I find a common shipmaster,
00:42:56as to the presumption to copy himself the coat of arms of one of our best Dorsetshire families,
00:43:00can you wonder if I'm physically upset?
00:43:02Whose crest was he copying?
00:43:04Credited or not, sir, the Blain crest.
00:43:06Are you certain?
00:43:08Perfectly, sir.
00:43:09I am certain.
00:43:11I am certain.
00:43:12Crest is on a ring in his desk.
00:43:13Pardon me, sir.
00:43:14I must join the captain.
00:43:15He's inspecting the cast of pickled eels.
00:43:17With Mr. Lorenzo.
00:43:18With Mr. Lorenzo.
00:43:19Thank you, sir.
00:43:20Thank you, sir.
00:43:21Thank you, sir.
00:43:22I am physically upset.
00:43:23Whose crest was he copying?
00:43:24Credited or not, sir, the Blain crest.
00:43:25Are you certain?
00:43:26Perfectly, sir.
00:43:27Crest is on a ring in his desk.
00:43:29Pardon me, sir.
00:43:30I must join the captain.
00:43:31He is inspecting the cast of pickled eels.
00:43:34With Mr. Lorenzo.
00:43:48I must join the captain on the next 14th floor.
00:43:49Oh, my God.
00:43:52I don't know.
00:44:22I don't know.
00:44:52Well, Mr. Mercy?
00:45:11Do 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 of nougat cutthroats and not keep tabs on him?
00:45:28And with good reason, if anything ever wreaked a piracy, this does.
00:45:32And murder, Captain.
00:45:33Boyle's death was no accident.
00:45:37By the way, what ship was sunk here?
00:45:40The Twelve Apostles?
00:45:42Why the Twelve Apostles, Mr. Mercy?
00:45:45There's Blaine's ring, his name's on it, and 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.
00:45:56When I get back, for if I don't.
00:45:57On 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.
00:46:10Ha.
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.
00:46:20You'll be hanged if you don't.
00:46:21Of all the slummokey blackguards.
00:46:28And if you do share Mr. King's informer,
00:46:31what guarantee is there that you won't still turn evidence for the crown?
00:46:35If I go in with you, I'm equally guilty.
00:46:39And if we're caught, we hang together.
00:46:41But I can keep you from being caught.
00:46:44What more could you ask?
00:46:47Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:46:48You know, Mr. Mercy,
00:46:50I've wondered sometimes if ever I'd meet a more unscrupulous blackguard than myself.
00:46:57And I have.
00:46:59Well, let's be sensible about this.
00:47:02Who knows?
00:47:03We might be useful to each other one day.
00:47:06In one way or another.
00:47:09You've forgotten something.
00:47:12By a ring.
00:47:14So I have.
00:47:16Listen 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.
00:47:38Good.
00:47:38Yes, but he didn't believe me.
00:47:39Not one word.
00:47:40He just pretended to.
00:47:40Oh, why didn't you shoot him?
00:47:43Then 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,
00:47:51King's man or no,
00:47:52he betrayed an uncommon interest in the Twelve Apostles.
00:47:55I didn't like them, Mr. Lorenzo,
00:47:57and I mean to find out why.
00:47:59Why, you could have charged him with robbery
00:48:01and turned him off at a yardarm,
00:48:02all 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. Pover.
00:48:07He can't leave us unless he swims.
00:48:10It'll be rather amusing to find out what he does.
00:48:14You rest easy.
00:48:14Leave Mr. Mercy to me.
00:48:35Leave Mr. Mercy to me.
00:49:05Have the boatswain pipe to call us.
00:49:12Pipe to call us!
00:49:24It's the Kuida merchant, sure enough.
00:49:30Can you make her out, Captain Rawson?
00:49:33Hmm.
00:49:37She 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.
00:49:50Longboat! Standboat!
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, see that all hands are at the station.
00:50:22Very good, sir.
00:50:23Ready?
00:50:25Fire!
00:50:30Well placed, Mr. Mercy.
00:50:31How to starboard.
00:50:32Dr. Starboard?
00:50:33Starboard she is, sir.
00:50:34You will come across with us in the longboat, Mr. Mercy.
00:50:37Convey my compliments to all officers who will dress as befitting a kingship.
00:50:38Aye, sir.
00:50:39Aye, sir.
00:50:40Thank you, 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.
00:50:59Captain 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.
00:51:50Avery and Culliford out of Last Hope.
00:51:52Some 30 leagues south of here.
00:51:54Oh, stop me, I near forgot.
00:51:56Could you spare us some powder and ball?
00:51:58We 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.
00:52:10I'll send to the master gunner. He'll take care of all your needs.
00:52:30Uh-huh.
00:52:31Mr. Lorenzo!
00:52:32There.
00:52:45Hilliard 16, sir.
00:52:50Mr. Lorenzo!
00:53:09Take this powder and put it in the long boat.
00:53:11Yes, sir.
00:53:20Gentlemen, my daughter, the Lady Anne Dunstan, Captain Kidd, Mr. Povey, Mr. Mercy.
00:53:37Haven't we met before?
00:53:39I 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.
00:53:50Perhaps.
00:53:52How do we proceed now, Captain?
00:53:55Well, I'm instructed to give you protection past Madagascar.
00:53:58And you'll be safe as long as we sail in company.
00:54:02But Avery will be a wolf at your heels.
00:54:04And if we are separated in darkness or storm...
00:54:07And what would you advise then, sir?
00:54:10Well, I suppose we could take Lord Falsworth and Lady Anne aboard the adventure till Madagascar's astern.
00:54:18And that if we are separated, then this vessel should be taken.
00:54:23What about the treasure on board?
00:54:25One silver chest alone.
00:54:27A present to his majesty from the Grand Morgul.
00:54:30Contains precious gems valued at more than a million pounds.
00:54:34May I suggest your excellency?
00:54:36Now, why not transfer the treasure chest with yourself and Lady Anne on board the adventure until we are out of danger?
00:54:45She's a kingship.
00:54:47That 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 go so far as...
00:54:58What else can we do?
00:54:59Three 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.
00:55:09And 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.
00:55:16This way, Captain.
00:55:17No trouble at all.
00:55:18You may check it against the contents of this chest and give me your receipt, if you will.
00:55:43Gladly, gladly.
00:55:44Oh, there you are, Mr Lorenzo. Have 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. We 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.
00:56:14Let's go.
00:56:44Come, Mr Lorenzo.
00:56:49You've seen a lovely lady before this.
00:56:53A 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.
00:57:02Mr Mercy, you will see Lord Falswell from the Lady Anne into the boat.
00:57:06Aye, sir.
00:57:14Make way for the longboard.
00:57:25Make way for the longboard.
00:57:44You 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.
00:58:14Why hasn't it happened?
00:58:25She's blown up.
00:58:39Someone must have touched off the magazine.
00:58:41Send out your boats at once, sir.
00:58:44You're going to ask me to risk men near that?
00:58:47I don't know myself.
00:58:51Let me go, boy.
00:58:52Captain.
00:58:53Father!
00:58:54Father!
00:59:10Oh, my God.
00:59:40Excuse me, milady.
00:59:44Your father, may I say how sorry I am?
00:59:48The captain has requested that you take your meals in the main cabin.
00:59:52Oh, 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 help me. There's no one else I can trust.
01:00:04But what can I do, milady?
01:00:05I'm only a servant.
01:00:07Where can I turn?
01:00:08And I'm so confused and frightened.
01:00:12I keep thinking of my father and the others lost back there.
01:00:19And on this ship, wherever I go, those horrible staring men.
01:00:23That 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.
01:00:35Well, 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.
01:00:47Shadwell, 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.
01:01:08I'd accuse him.
01:01:09There is a man on board, milady.
01:01:14A gentleman, whom I know you can trust.
01:01:18Mr. Mercy?
01:01:19Yes, milady.
01:01:22Shadwell, 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.
01:01:34Perhaps if I ask him, he'll, shall 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.
01:02:00So, when do we divide the gold?
01:02:05In London, not before.
01:02:08Uh-huh.
01:02:10Then look, Capitan, I will make a bargain with you.
01:02:13A bargain?
01:02:14Everybody wants to bargain with me, you and Mercy.
01:02:17Far and thunder, what do you think I am, a stinking sausage merchant?
01:02:22What kind of a bargain?
01:02:24The girl.
01:02:26All my life I have dreamed of a beautiful woman like that.
01:02:30Give me half of my dinero now, and you can split the rest between you, if you will let me have her.
01:02:39Fie on him.
01:02:41He'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.
01:02:52With 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 mutiny?
01:03:09You're a witness.
01:03:11He's inciting the crew to mutiny.
01:03:14No, no, no, no, it can't be done.
01:03:18I was only joking.
01:03:20You have a very nasty way of joking, Mr. Lorenzo.
01:03:24As for the girl, I have my own plans for her, and they do not include you.
01:03:28Get out.
01:03:29Next, let's go.
01:03:45Two.
01:03:49Two.
01:03:56Three.
01:03:56Two.
01:03:56Who is it?
01:04:07Adam Mercy.
01:04:10Mr. Mercy, I'm...
01:04:26Thank you for coming, Mr. Mercy. I'm...
01:04:36My name's Adam Blaine.
01:04:38Son of Lord Blaine.
01:04:41I knew it. I knew it.
01:04:43What are you doing on this ship?
01:04:45My father was killed and accused of piracy.
01:04:48Few people believed Lord Blaine.
01:04:49The King did.
01:04:51That'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.
01:04:57That you have.
01:05:01It was Captain Kidd who killed your father, wasn't it?
01:05:06Adam, 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.
01:05:21You 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.
01:05:27Why 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 I let him.
01:05:33What can I do to help them?
01:05:36There must be something.
01:05:40Forget 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 Admiralty and the King.
01:05:49You'll be doing me a great service as well as yourself.
01:05:54I will, Adam.
01:05:55I promise.
01:05:59You're going to have trouble with Lorenzo.
01:06:01The beating of the lumb is exciting the tiger.
01:06:04His 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.
01:06:14Maybe even the sudden demise of Lord Palsworth.
01:06:18But what about the lady?
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 pa.
01:06:41Receive the grateful thanks of me sovereign.
01:06:44And a peerage is mine.
01:06:47My lord.
01:06:48Laugh 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.
01:07:03My lady.
01:07:05Do not be alarmed.
01:07:06Now that she knows who I am and the kind of a ship she's on, I think we can count on to keep ahead.
01:07:13You stay here till I come off watch.
01:07:14Help!
01:07:18Help!
01:07:26Shadwell!
01:07:27Shadwell!
01:07:45Use your head, Mr. Povey.
01:07:47Luck's with us tonight.
01:07:48Which of either of them would you like to see survive?
01:07:57Let's go!
01:08:27Mr. Mercy, you did well to protect her.
01:08:57Are you all right, sir?
01:09:19Yes, I'm all right.
01:09:20Look after Lady Anne.
01:09:27Adam, what's the matter?
01:09:31My medallion, it's gone.
01:09:33Has the Blaine crest on it.
01:09:35Blaine.
01:09:36Perhaps I can find him for you, sir.
01:09:39No.
01:09:40It must have come off just before Lorenzo went through the port.
01:09:43Chad will take Lady Anne to her cabin.
01:09:45Oh, please, Adam.
01:09:46I can't go in there.
01:09:47You must, Anne.
01:09:48This is serious.
01:09:49It involves you.
01:09:50Remember, no matter what tricks he tries, you've never seen me before and you don't know who
01:09:53I am, Chad will 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?
01:10:05The 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
01:10:18safely to London.
01:10:19I'll stake my life on it, sir.
01:10:20I know you will.
01:10:22Be careful, Adam.
01:10:24Please be careful.
01:10:29Come, milady.
01:10:32He's no king's man.
01:10:47Who is he then?
01:10:48Tomorrow we put into the lagoon for water and while the crew's getting it on board, you
01:10:53and me and Mr. Mercy's going to the cave.
01:10:56You gonna take him in there?
01:10:57I have a peculiar humor to watch my clever young friends fizz when we dig up their chest.
01:11:03Sweet dreams.
01:11:05Thank you, Sid.
01:11:23Let's go.
01:11:53Let's go.
01:12:23Let's go.
01:12:33Dig fast, Mr. Mercy. You haven't got forever.
01:12:37Who might this be?
01:12:44Perhaps a man that asked too many questions.
01:12:46Gently now, Mr. Mercy. You've come on something.
01:13:00So it was the Twelve Apostles, eh, Captain?
01:13:12Yes, it was, Mr. Mercy.
01:13:13Open it up.
01:13:17Planes.
01:13:29Planes.
01:13:33Planes.
01:13:43Planes.
01:13:45He was a brave seaman, but foolish. Did you happen to know him, Mr. Mercy?
01:13:52I've heard of him.
01:13:54I thought perhaps you had.
01:13:58This is yours.
01:14:04Isn't it?
01:14:06I, 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.
01:14:18A pity he turned pirate and traitor to his king.
01:14:23Liar?
01:14:24Liar.
01:14:25Liar.
01:14:26Liar.
01:14:27Liar.
01:14:28Come on.
01:14:58He's meat for the Sharks now, Mr. Povey.
01:15:15The tide closes this place in half an hour.
01:15:17We've nothing more to fear.
01:15:19Oh, yes, you sure have, Captain.
01:15:21Lady, I am.
01:15:22It's a long voyage home, Mr. Povey.
01:15:24And anything might happen.
01:15:28Naturally, her ladyship is still very distressed, sir.
01:15:36In the midst of life, we are in death, Shadwell.
01:15:40And though me heart bleeds...
01:15:41My heart, sir.
01:15:43My heart bleeds.
01:15:50Confound you, Shadwell.
01:15:51You drove the thought right out of me head.
01:15:54And 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 our meals in the main cabin with the rest of us.
01:16:05Very well, sir.
01:16:09Poor lad.
01:16:11We turned just in time to see him go over the edge.
01:16:14Searched for an hour.
01:16:16Never came up.
01:16:17Well, here'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 or another, but bear up.
01:16:36You'll soon be home again.
01:16:38I 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 our ladyship unless we can...
01:17:03Adam.
01:17:13Adam.
01:17:14How did you...
01:17:16They find you on board, sir.
01:17:18I'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.
01:17:24The jolly boat's more to stern.
01:17:26I worked it alongside.
01:17:27It's secured right under this port.
01:17:29Ward get in it and drift aft under the main cabin.
01:17:32What now?
01:17:32Get me some dry clothes.
01:17:33Shadwell, where's the captain?
01:17:34In 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.
01:17:42Tell Lady Anne to get some things together, and when the coast is clear, you come back for me.
01:17:45Yes, sir.
01:17:45Yes, sir.
01:17:45Both, sir?
01:18:00Aye, sir.
01:18:01Round out both watches at daybreak.
01:18:03We're weighing on the morning tide.
01:18:05Aye, sir.
01:18:15Adam.
01:18:25Kid doesn't suspect Shadwell.
01:18:26He's staying on board, and he'll be evidence for us in London.
01:18:29Bart's on the small boat, more to stern.
01:18:31We'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.
01:18:42Come on.
01:18:42Get down in the bow.
01:19:00Good-bye, Freddy.
01:19:11Good-bye, Lord.
01:19:13Godspeed.
01:19:22I see you in England.
01:19:26Ahoy there!
01:19:28Who's in that boat now?
01:19:29Come on, come on.
01:19:32Come on!
01:19:48Fire!
01:19:49Thank you, my lord's gun.
01:20:09Fire!
01:20:12And the long boat!
01:20:14Fire!
01:20:15Fire!
01:20:15Fire!
01:20:15Fire!
01:20:16Fire!
01:20:31Hold on to me.
01:20:32Take her away.
01:21:02He's dead as a mackerel.
01:21:07He's gone too.
01:21:09I guess that's the end of him, eh, Captain?
01:21:11Ah, and good wriggles.
01:21:13Back to the ship, boys.
01:21:32If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, my friend, forget it.
01:21:48There's a little matter of a letter I left in London.
01:21:52Spoilsport.
01:22:02I think you're thinking.
01:22:07I think we're thinking about a balki and a balki, and we're kind of a balki.
01:22:12I think that's the way we're thinking about.
01:22:15It's the way we're thinking about a balki.
01:22:19I think it's a good day.
01:22:23I think it's a good day.
01:22:27Captain William Kidd!
01:22:57Captain William Kidd!
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
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
01:23:35and catching him red-handed in defence of my very life.
01:23:39I 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.
01:23:54We'd ship but that chest.
01:23:56When up she blew.
01:23:57And all souls went heavenward.
01:24:00Rest in peace to them.
01:24:02Ditto.
01:24:04I see.
01:24:06And about the Twelve Apostles and Lord Blaine,
01:24:09do 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 office has 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, me surgeon, a very wily fellow indeed was hiding something from me.
01:24:41Hiding 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.
01:24:49With his dying oath he swore it was not his.
01:24:51Perhaps Shadwell, me valet, slipped it aboard.
01:24:54Might it not have come from a Madagascar cave, captain?
01:24:57Something dreadful queer about all this, Your Majesty.
01:24:59Enough of your lies.
01:25:00Look.
01:25:13Nightmare.
01:25:16A 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, 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 Terminer.
01:25:34There to be tried for his life.
01:25:39Hands off me, you scum!
01:25:43All I 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
01:25:56And to their sons' sons Down through the endless corridors of time
01:26:04Greed that spawns murder
01:26:11Hatred that corrodes the soul
01:26:16Ambition the foulest trumpet of all
01:26:21Hey Jack! Jack Kidds!
01:26:24Sell me a bit of that rope for sixpence, will ya?
01:26:27Save 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.
01:26:35Put it up, Jack. Can't wait forever.
01:26:42Captain Kidd is dead, my lord Blaine. His account is closed.
01:26:45Nigh what manner can I atone for the injustice I wept upon your father?
01:26:49Offered your first sea lord, what do you suggest?
01:26:52We've a fine frigate of fifty guns, commissioned for American waters, sire.
01:26:57That we thought of naming the Lady Anne.
01:26:59It shall be a wedding gift to you from the crown.
01:27:01For your loyalty and service to king and country.