Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)

There was a time when buccaneers terrorized the Caribbean, double-dealing, swashbuckling and pillaging across the high seas. And the most feared of them all was Blackbeard the Pirate. Early 1700s. The King of England sends Sir Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) to kill or capture the dreaded pirate Blackbeard (Robert Newton). He assigns a dashing young officer, Edward Maynard (Keith Andes), to be captured. Now working as the pirate ship’s surgeon, Maynard befriends a fellow captive Edwina Mansfield (Linda Darnell). But little does he realize that Sir Morgan is secretly working with the pirates–or that the beautiful Mansfield is neither helpless nor innocent and has an agenda of her own.

Directed by Raoul Walsh
Produced by Edmund Grainger
Written by DeVallon Scott
Screenplay by Alan Le May
Starring Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher, Irene Ryan, Alan Mowbray, Richard Egan, Skelton Knaggs, Dick Wessel, Anthony Caruso, Jack Lambert, Noel Drayton, Pat Flaherty