Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.Captain David Porter of the fledgling American Navy receives orders to masquerade as a privateer in order to corral some Caribbean pirates.
Carlos Albert
- Spanish Captain
- (uncredited)
Emile Avery
- Seaman
- (uncredited)
George Bruggeman
- Guard
- (uncredited)
Stephen Chase
- Cmdr. Karson
- (uncredited)
Cecil Combs
- Seaman
- (uncredited)
Roy Damron
- Sailor
- (uncredited)
Norman Evans
- Seaman
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWith Errol Flynn recovering from a broken ankle sustained while filming Against All Flags (1952), Universal-International took advantage of the standing sets for that film by putting together this modest epic during the hiatus.
- GoofsPorter was stepfather to Farragut, not just another junior officer, and they did not serve on the same ship during the West Indian campaign.
- Quotes
Cmdr. David Porter: I'm afraid there's a limit to nobility... even for Americans.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Face of the Frog (1959)
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The real David Dixon Porter and the real David Glasgow Farragut are portrayed in Yankee Buccaneer by Jeff Chandler and Scott Brady. The film is concerned with a wholly fictitious incident involving about a US Naval vessel going undercover as a pirate ship to find out where these seemingly organized pirates are headquartered. In real life Porter and Farragut were more than teacher and pupil, in fact they were step-brothers.
Yankee Buccaneer also has them involved in a way that the film does not make clear with the Portugese dynastic situation in the 19th century in the person of Suzan Ball. The Braganza family was exiled to Brazil during the Napoleonic Wars which is a whole film in itself, but not terribly germane to the plot here.
Anyway Joseph Calleia is a Spanish governor of one of the few islands in the Caribbean left to Spain. But that's his day job, by night he's the ringleader of the pirate activity and he's a slick article.
This naval film plays like one of those old B westerns where real historic people are involved in fictitious situations. Yankee Buccaneer doesn't play fast and loose with history, it just rewrites it to suit the fans of Chandler and Brady. George Matthews has a nice part in this film as the CPO of the ship.
A few others might like it as well as the fans of the leads.
Yankee Buccaneer also has them involved in a way that the film does not make clear with the Portugese dynastic situation in the 19th century in the person of Suzan Ball. The Braganza family was exiled to Brazil during the Napoleonic Wars which is a whole film in itself, but not terribly germane to the plot here.
Anyway Joseph Calleia is a Spanish governor of one of the few islands in the Caribbean left to Spain. But that's his day job, by night he's the ringleader of the pirate activity and he's a slick article.
This naval film plays like one of those old B westerns where real historic people are involved in fictitious situations. Yankee Buccaneer doesn't play fast and loose with history, it just rewrites it to suit the fans of Chandler and Brady. George Matthews has a nice part in this film as the CPO of the ship.
A few others might like it as well as the fans of the leads.
- bkoganbing
- May 16, 2011
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 1.37 : 1
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