---
title: 'The Buccaneer (1958)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Anthony Quinn'
released: '1958-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 114
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-buccaneer-1958'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051436/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Buccaneer (1958)

1958 · 114 min · Adventure, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

The Buccaneer is a 1958 swashbuckler-war film made by Paramount Pictures starring Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte, Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom. Charlton Heston played a supporting role as Andrew Jackson, the second time that Heston played Jackson, having portrayed him earlier in the 1953 film The President's Lady. The film was shot in Technicolor and VistaVision, the story takes place during the War of 1812, telling a heavily fictionalized version of how the privateer Lafitte helped in the Battle of New Orleans and how he had to choose between fighting for America or for the side most likely to win, the United Kingdom.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Anthony Quinn](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-quinn)
- **Screenplay:** [Jeanie MacPherson](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeanie-macpherson), [Jesse Louis Lasky Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-louis-lasky-jr)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Elmer Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmer-bernstein)
- **Producer:** [Henry Wilcoxon](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-wilcoxon)
- **Director of Photography:** [Loyal Griggs](https://cinepixo.com/people/loyal-griggs)
- **Editor:** [Archie Marshek](https://cinepixo.com/people/archie-marshek)

## Cast

- [Leslie Bradley](https://cinepixo.com/people/leslie-bradley)
- [Ted de Corsia](https://cinepixo.com/people/ted-de-corsia)
- [Julia Faye](https://cinepixo.com/people/julia-faye)
- [Claire Bloom](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-bloom)
- [Kathleen Freeman](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathleen-freeman)
- [Barry Kelley](https://cinepixo.com/people/barry-kelley)
- [Robert F. Simon](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-f-simon)
- [Mike Mazurki](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-mazurki)
- [Gordon Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-mitchell)
- [Bruce Gordon](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruce-gordon)
- [Jean De Briac](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-de-briac)
- [Norma Varden](https://cinepixo.com/people/norma-varden)
- [Alberto Morin](https://cinepixo.com/people/alberto-morin)
- [Charles Meredith](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-meredith)
- [Lane Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/lane-chandler)

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