Product: Captain Kidd
Rating: 5.0
Captain Kidd (1945) starring Charles Laughton is a wonderful movie.
Captain Kidd (1945) starring Charles Laughton is a wonderful movie.It is stagy, and hurray for that.Stage plays with main actors like Laughton are nowhere to be seen anymore, and "stagy movies" like this one keep us reminded about the wonderful art of staged drama and great stage actors.Laughton's actor work is breathtaking...he's the star, and other actors are supporting actors.Barbara Britton, the lead actress, is physically beautiful and that's all.Good.It's a man's movie, a swashbuckler, and she's decoration. Not more.That used to be a frequent tradition in swashbuckler movies, but since women have been "liberated" and are always, and must always be..."important".....just beautiful and otherwise agreeable and quiet is not longer seen. Hurray for Barbara Britton and her leading lady character....one can understand why the leading romantic male...Randolph Scott.....was interested in her, and ended up with her.This movie is available (2009) at WalMart in bins which offer cheap, older movies. I got it for $4.00 along with twenty other movies (several very good) in a "family pack" movie which had poor labeling....I took pot luck, and lucked out!Many good movies of the past ended up "slipping through the cracks" and were never available in video stores, or ranked as "great movies," including some truly great movies! Captain Kidd (1945) starring Charles Laughton is a truly great movie. See it.How many others are "out there" unhonored and cheap to buy, sold by the likes of WalMart (the chain store we all "love to hate" but buy from frequently....and with good reason, it turns out)?-------------------Written by Tex Allen, SAG Actor.