---
title: 'The Buccaneer (1938)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Cecil B. DeMille'
released: '1938-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 126
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-buccaneer-1938'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029950/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Buccaneer (1938)

1938 · 126 min · Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures starring Fredric March and based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. The picture was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb, Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie MacPherson from the 1930 novel Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon. The music score was by George Antheil and the cinematography by Victor Milner.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Cecil B. DeMille](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-b-demille)
- **Producer:** [Cecil B. DeMille](https://cinepixo.com/people/cecil-b-demille)
- **Screenplay:** [Jeanie MacPherson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeanie-macpherson), [C. Gardner Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/c-gardner-sullivan)
- **Original Music Composer:** [George Antheil](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-antheil)
- **Director of Photography:** [Victor Milner](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-milner)
- **Editor:** [Anne Bauchens](https://cinepixo.com/people/anne-bauchens)

## Cast

- [J. P. McGowan](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-p-mcgowan)
- [Franciska Gaal](https://cinepixo.com/people/franciska-gaal)
- [Edward LeSaint](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-lesaint)
- [Beulah Bondi](https://cinepixo.com/people/beulah-bondi)
- [Alphonse Martell](https://cinepixo.com/people/alphonse-martell)
- [Robert Barrat](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-barrat)
- [Lane Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/lane-chandler)
- [Walter Brennan](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-brennan)
- [Evelyn Keyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/evelyn-keyes)
- [Akim Tamiroff](https://cinepixo.com/people/akim-tamiroff)
- [Montagu Love](https://cinepixo.com/people/montagu-love)
- [Fredric March](https://cinepixo.com/people/fredric-march)
- [Richard Denning](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-denning)
- [Charles Trowbridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-trowbridge)
- [André Cheron](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-cheron)

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