Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn is a 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film based on the Daohne duMaurier book by the same name. It stars Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara. You can watch it free on Tubi or via YouTube below.

Eye for Film calls it "an entertaining and surprisingly dark period drama."

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is a 1952 comedy film also starring Charles Laughton and Leif Erickson. You can watch it online here. Sheer silliness, but it's Abbott and Costello so we knew that going in.

trailer:

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Ahoy there, matey! Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day! There's a lot of information here. Mashable has extensive resources. NPR, I notice, has several related stories.

Alestorm has a song (via NPR) nicely suited for the day:

Keelhaul that filthy landlubber, send him down to the depths below!
Make that bastard walk the plank, with a bottle of rum and a yo-ho-ho!

You can get your very own pirate name here. Here's mine:

Iron Bess Bonney

A pirate's life isn't easy; it takes a tough person. That's okay with you, though, since you a tough person. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

Don't know how to talk like a pirate? Avast, me hearty, there's hope! There is an instructional wiki, or here's an instructional video that can help you get into the spirit of the day:


Another way to get into the proper spirit is to read books with pirates in them. Treasure Island is online, as are Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates and The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms.

AllRecipes.com has pirate recipes. Wired has directions for making a pirate map from a paper sack.

Or you could watch the Mary Martin "Peter Pan":
part 1

part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13, part 14, part 15

There is a Facebook event page and several groups. This link is to the largest of the Facebook groups. For Pastafarians this is an important holiday.

Remember George Harrison? He could talk like a pirate before there was a holiday to celebrate it:

The Captain's Christmas

The Captain's Christmas (1938) is one of the Captain and the Kids cartoon series. A synopsis is here. Ahoy there, matey! Thar's a pirate villain in this one.

via youtube:



This is what the world needs: more films where Santa says, "Avast there, me hearties!"

The Princess Bride

The dad in The Princess Bride isn't even in the film, but I think the movie fits the Dads in Media Blogathon theme anyway, because the dad drives the major subplot.

"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Ever since he was scarred for life at the age of 11 trying to kill the 6-fingered man who had just murdered his father, he has sought the man. His thirst for revenge has driven him for 20 years. The scene in which he comes face to face with the killer has the killer begging for mercy, offering Inigo anything he wants. Inigo responds with this cry: "I want my father back." Some things can't be replaced.

Here's that part:


We had seen the play in a children's community theater performance years ago but had not seen the movie until tonight. It was fun.

reviews:
Roger Ebert
BBC
New York Times

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Ahoy there, matey. it's Talk Like a Pirate Day! Wikipedia has an informative piece that tells about the founders and the history of the observance.

later:

We watched an Addams' Family tv episode called The Great Treasure Hunt, which had pirates, a pirate flag, a treasure map and edible doubloons. Perfect!

Pirate Comics.

Pirate Phone

I must have one of these before Talk Like a Pirate Day gets here!

HT: Pharyngula

Captain Kidd

Captain Kidd stars Charles Laughton in the title role in this fictionalized pirate adventure movie. Randolph Scott and John Carradine also star in this film.

You can watch it here at youtube: