"those were Jacobites, supporters of the House of Stuart, who identified as enemies of the Hanoverian King George. Still others simply identified as rebels, or thought they were better off as pirates than trying to earn an honest living. When a Royal Navy ship brought official word to Nassau of the pardon offer, many pirates planned to accept. Soon, however, the recalcitrant parties gained the upper hand, eventually forcing the Navy ship to leave. Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet, Nicholas Brown and Edmond Condent left the Bahamas for other territories. Charles Vane, with ""Calico Jack"" Rackham and Edward England in his crew,"
"One-Eyed Jacks One-Eyed Jacks is a 1961 Western film directed by Marlon Brando; it was the only film directed by him. It was originally planned to be directed by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay by Sam Peckinpah, but studio disputes led to their replacement by Brando and Guy Trosper. Brando portrays the lead character Rio, and Karl Malden plays his partner, ""Dad"" Longworth. The supporting cast features Katy Jurado, Ben Johnson, and Slim Pickens. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Rio (Marlon Brando) (also called ""The"
"Black Jack (1950 film) Black Jack, also known as Captain Blackjack, is a 1950 adventure film written and directed by Julien Duvivier and starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc and Dennis Wyndham. Set on the Mediterranean, it tells the story of a man who does evil deeds. Although his conscience is awakened and he has fallen in love, escaping his past proves impossible. The English-language film was a co-production between France, Spain and the United States. Demobilised after World War II, Mike Alexander pursues any deals, legal or not, which will make him a fortune. He has acquired a"
"including Jack and the pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny. Calico Jack was originally a pirate under Captain Charles Vane but soon after turned to piracy. In 1719, he sailed to New Providence to receive a pardon and a letter of marque from Governor of New Providence Captain Woodes Rogers. The War of the Quadruple Alliance had begun and England hoped to make privateers of Caribbean brigands to fight the Spanish. Captain Jack was capable of receiving a pardon, but he did not receive a commission to attack the Spanish fleet. Calico settled in New Providence, where he met Anne"
"Lieutenant Maynard then decapitated the infamous pirate and strung his head up the mast. ""Calico"" Jack Rackham- played by David Joseph Boyd- was a pirate who conducted his operations in the Bahamas and Cuba. Rackham was not as successful in his missions as the previous two pirates mentioned and was mostly known for his relations with the two female pirates Anne Bonny (played by Michelle Michaels) and Mary Read (played by Kimberly Adair), who served under his command. This pirate’s most successful prize, Kingston, did not remain long in his power and therefore had left the pirate with little to"
"Blackadder Blackadder is a series of four BBC1 pseudohistorical British sitcoms, plus several one-off instalments, which originally aired in the 1980s. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as the anti-hero Edmund Blackadder, and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period, with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett (Stephen Fry) and Lord Flashheart (Rik Mayall). The first series, ""The Black Adder"", was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows"
"Blackjack (1998 film) Blackjack is a 1998 Canadian-American TV action film directed by John Woo starring Dolph Lundgren as a leukophobic former United States Marshal turned bodyguard who hunts down an assassin. Jack Devlin is a former U.S. Marshall who is working as a detective and bodyguard for Dr. Rachel Stein. While escorting her he has encounters in which he kills groups of military guards, gang members, serial killers and kidnappers. They meet Tim Hastings for information, and Jack and Tim confront Rachel over the dangerous events but resolve to see it through together. Jack searches for and meets others"
"Calico Captive Calico Captive is Elizabeth George Speare's first historical fiction children's novel. It was inspired by the true story of Susanna Willard Johnson (1730–1810) who, along with her family and younger sister, were kidnapped in an Abenakis Indian raid on Charlestown, New Hampshire in August 1754. The main events in ""Calico Captive"", which occurred on the brink of the French and Indian War, were taken from Johnson's narrative diary ""A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson"", which was first published in 1796. ""Calico Captive"" is told through the eyes of Miriam, Johnson's younger sister, and her imagined adventures."
"pirates Blackbeard and Calico Jack, it is likely that the author used considerable licence in his accounts of pirate conversations. In 2002, English naval historian David Cordingly wrote an introduction to Johnson's 1724 book, stating: ""it has been said, and there seems no reason to question this, that Captain Johnson created the modern conception of pirates."" Johnson's book would influence the pirate literature of Robert Louis Stevenson and J. M. Barrie. Such literary works as Stevenson's ""Treasure Island"" and Barrie's ""Peter Pan"", while romanticized, drew heavily on pirates and piracy for their plots. Various claims and speculation about their overall"
"in later expansions, he received his own ghost ship and became a member of the Cursed faction, cementing his role as an actual undead pirate. The Calico Cat is a strong female character who provides a dramatic balance to Jack Hawkins; she is often depicted as a plucky adventurer who uses both brains and brawn to further some unknown quest for revenge. The Cat also mentors a girl by the name of Bonny Peel. It has been hinted that ""the Cat"" has a personal grudge against Hawkins, and is rumored to be the missing Gunn in the Pirate stories. Several"
"Black Hat Jack Black Hat Jack: The True Life Adventures of Deadwood Dick as told by His Ownself is a novella written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It tells the story about African-American cowboy Nat Love, also known as ""Deadwood Dick"" and his friend Black Hat Jack. The story is told from Nat's narrative point of view and takes place in the old west in 1874 during the Second Battle of Adobe Walls fought against various tribes of Native Americans. It was published by Subterranean Press as an eBook and both a deluxe hardcover and limited edition. The hardcover"
"Kangaroo Jack Kangaroo Jack is a 2003 Australian-American buddy-action crime comedy live-action/animated film from Warner Bros., written by Steve Bing, Barry O'Brien and Scott Rosenberg, directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer with music by Trevor Rabin and starring Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Estella Warren, and Adam Garcia. ""Kangaroo Jack"" was theatrically released on January 17, 2003 by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was panned by critics, who condemned the acting, directing and writing, especially for a family film. It received a rating of 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $88.1 million on a $60 million budget."
"""Yellow Jack."" ""Yellow Jack"" was presented on ""Philip Morris Playhouse"" September 5, 1941. Yellow Jack Yellow Jack refers to a 1934 play (see ""Yellow Jack"" (play) and a 1938 film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of the same title. Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif (the former a Pulitzer- and Oscar-winning playwright and screenwriter; the latter a well-known microbiologist and author). The plot line follows the events of the well-known ""Walter Reed Boards,"" in which Major Walter Reed of the U.S. Army worked to diagnose and treat yellow fever (called “yellow jack”) in Cuba in 1898-1900. The U.S."
"Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide"" gives a backstory to Sparrow in which he was born on a pirate ship during a typhoon in the Indian Ocean and was trained to fence by an Italian. Books following Sparrow's adventures before the events of the film include a twelve-book series focusing on his teenage years entitled """", and a five-books """" series. In 2011, Ann C. Crispin wrote a novel titled """", which follows Jack's adventures as a merchant captain for the East India Trading Company. Unofficially, Calico Jack's personality and behavior from the game """" is very similar to Jack Sparrow's."
"Yellowbeard Yellowbeard is a 1983 British comedy film directed by Mel Damski and written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, and David Sherlock, with an ensemble cast featuring Chapman, Cook, Peter Boyle, Cheech & Chong, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, and John Cleese, and the final cinematic appearances of Marty Feldman and Peter Bull. The pirate Yellowbeard (Chapman) is incarcerated for 20 years for tax evasion. He survives the sentence but has not disclosed the whereabouts of his vast treasure. The Royal Navy hatches a plot to increase his sentence by 140 years, knowing"
"Jack the Bear Jack the Bear is a 1993 American drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz, written by Steven Zaillian based on the novel by Dan McCall, and starring Danny DeVito, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr., Miko Hughes, and Gary Sinise. Jack Leary and his younger brother Dylan start over in Oakland, California in 1972 following the death of their mother Elizabeth. The boys live with their father John, who entertains late-night horror film audiences as ""Midnight Shriek"" host-commentator ""Al Gory."" John has a drinking problem that disrupts the smooth running of the household. Some parental duties fall to Jack, who"
"Big Jack (film) Big Jack is a 1949 film starring Wallace Beery, Richard Conte and Marjorie Main. The movie was directed by Richard Thorpe, and the screenplay was written by Gene Fowler and Otto Eis from the novel by Robert Thoeren. The picture is a comedy-drama, set on the American frontier in the early 1800s, about outlaws who befriend a young doctor in legal trouble for acquiring corpses for anatomical research. This was Wallace Beery's final film, believed to be his 230th. He died on April 15, 1949 at age 64, three days after this movie's release. According to MGM"
"original. The film describes Black Jack's attempts to prevent a group known as the Ghost of Icarus from starting a widespread, biological war which could wipe out humanity, while working alongside the infamous Dr. Kiriko. The TV show can currently be viewed for free on Viki (website) and Crunchyroll. Anime Sols has successfully crowd-funded the first 26 episodes of it for DVD release, starting from Episode 0. Right Stuf and Crunchyroll are currently selling extra copies of the first boxset through their website. An anime version of the character was seen in an ad teaming up with Dr. House from"
"Nigel Rix, and Trooper O'Neill. McLean stories in The Weekly News appeared anonymously until 6 October 1979, ten years after Goodchild's death.*18 He wrote and directed films based on books and stories. Several awards were named after him. George Goodchild George Goodchild (1888–1969) aka Alan Dare, Wallace Q. Reid, and Jesse Templeton, was a prolific and successful British writer of popular books, short stories, plays, and movies (e.g. 1921 ""Colorado Jim"" filmed as ""Colorado Jack""), who published over 200 works in his 60-year career, and beyond his lifetime. Books are still re-issued, mostly in large print for older readers. Featured"
"finds this out and, his cover blown, destroys the consignment. To escape the law, he then heads in his yacht for Tangier and Ingrid agrees to flee with him. But police launches pursue them and shoot Alexander dead. Black Jack (1950 film) Black Jack, also known as Captain Blackjack, is a 1950 adventure film written and directed by Julien Duvivier and starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc and Dennis Wyndham. Set on the Mediterranean, it tells the story of a man who does evil deeds. Although his conscience is awakened and he has fallen in love, escaping his past"
"Blackbeard the Pirate Blackbeard the Pirate is a 1952 Technicolor adventure film made by RKO. The film was directed by Raoul Walsh and produced by Edmund Grainger from a screenplay by Alan Le May based on the story by DeVallon Scott. The film follows British Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Keith Andes), who sets out to earn a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) also engages in piracy. Maynard poses as a surgeon on board the ship of pirate Charles Bellamy, who he believes is in league with Morgan. Once Maynard and fellow spy Briggs come on board,"
"George Goodchild George Goodchild (1888–1969) aka Alan Dare, Wallace Q. Reid, and Jesse Templeton, was a prolific and successful British writer of popular books, short stories, plays, and movies (e.g. 1921 ""Colorado Jim"" filmed as ""Colorado Jack""), who published over 200 works in his 60-year career, and beyond his lifetime. Books are still re-issued, mostly in large print for older readers. Featured characters include Inspector McLean, spy catcher Q33 Trelawney, Nigel Rix, and Trooper O'Neill (1932 film). He wrote and directed films based on books and stories, including ""Colorado Jack"" (1921), ""Bucking the Barrier"" (1923), ""The Public Defender"" (1931), ""Condemned"
"be proud of. Jack’s legacy would not have been much had it not been for Bonny and Read. He was brought to his death after him and his crew were captured in Jamaica, tried and hung on November 28, 1720. ""Black Bart"" Roberts- played by Scott Silbor- was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy (as measured by vessels captured), taking over 400 prizes in his career. He was originally the third mate on the slave ship ""Princess"" when"
"Blackbird (Dibia novel) Blackbird is a 2011 novel by Nigerian author Jude Dibia published by the JALAA Writers’ Collective. Dibia’s third novel follows a complex story of romance and revenge set against the social and political climate of contemporary Nigeria, often told through flashbacks and dream sequences. ""Blackbird"" opens on preparations for an armed home invasion. Three men—Scorpion, Razor, and Cobra—discuss the logistical details of perpetrating their crime in a wealthy compound, an event later revealed as the infamous rape and murder of socialite, Katherine Cole. Cole’s murder becomes a sort of touchstone throughout the novel, serving as a litmus"
"brother Bob Christian. He first earned the nickname ""202"" due to his large frame. However, he quickly became better known as ""Black Jack"" due to his tendency to have a short temper. During this time of the late 1880s and early 1890s, he and his brother Bob organized the ""High Fives Gang"", operating mostly around New Mexico Territory. In 1895, while the two brothers were in Guthrie, Oklahoma, they shot and killed a lawman, and were arrested. They escaped with the assistance of their gang and fled to Arizona Territory. The following year, with the help of a wealthy rancher"
"Jacko Affair was a hoax, involving an 1884 newspaper report of an apelike creature captured in British Columbia. He cites research by John Green, who found that several contemporaneous British Columbia newspapers regarded the alleged capture as highly dubious, and notes that the ""Mainland Guardian"" of New Westminster, British Columbia wrote, ""Absurdity is written on the face of it."" Tom Biscardi is a long-time Bigfoot enthusiast and CEO of Searching for Bigfoot Inc. He appeared on the ""Coast to Coast AM"" paranormal radio show on July 14, 2005 and said that he was ""98% sure that his group will be"
"Razorback (comics) Razorback (Buford Hollis) is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Buford Hollis version of Razorback first appeared in shadow in ""Spectacular Spider-Man"" vol. 1 #12. His first full appearance is in ""Spectacular Spider-Man"" vol. 1 #13 where he was created by Archie Goodwin, Bill Mantlo, and Sal Buscema. Buford Hollis, a muscular truck driver and costumed adventurer from Texarkana, Arkansas, was in New York looking for his younger sister Bobby Sue who had joined a religious cult. This was in fact led by the villainous Man-Beast (disguised as"
"Where's Jack? Where's Jack? is a 1969 film recounting the exploits of notorious 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard and London ""Thief-Taker General"" Jonathan Wild. The film was produced by Stanley Baker through his company Oakhurst Productions, and starred Baker himself as Jonathan Wild. Tommy Steele played Jack Sheppard. The film was directed by novelist James Clavell. Mary Hopkin sings the title song. The ending of the film is ambiguous. It suggests the possibility that Sheppard may have survived his execution and escaped to the Americas. Financing was provided by Paramount. According to producer Michael Deeley, this was obtained after a pitch"
"won three awards at that year's Atlantic Film Festival: Best Atlantic Feature, Best Atlantic Director, and the Michael Weir Award for Outstanding Atlantic Screenplay (sponsored by the Michael Weir Foundation for the Arts). and Vancouver International Film Festival award for Best Canadian Feature Film. It also won the 2013 Claude Jutra Award for the best Canadian film by a first-time film director. Blackbird (2012 film) Blackbird is a 2012 Canadian drama film written and directed by Jason Buxton. The film stars Connor Jessup as a socially isolated and bullied goth teenager who befriends his ""puck bunny"" classmate (Alexia Fast), but"
"he took and are now in gaol.” Jonathan Barnet Jonathan Barnet (fl. 1715–1720) was an English privateer active in the Caribbean. He is best known for capturing pirates Calico Jack, Anne Bonney, and Mary Read. Lord Archibald Hamilton, Governor of Jamaica, commissioned ten privateers in late 1715 and charged them with hunting pirates. Among them was Barnet, who sailed out in his 90-ton snow ""Tyger"". The ""Tyger’s"" owners and Barnet posted bond before he sailed. Barnet’s six-month commission was periodically renewed by Hamilton and succeeding Governors. Hamilton gave Barnet specific instructions on which flag to fly, on keeping a journal,"
"masochistic intensity, as if Brando were taking the opportunity to punish himself for some unknown crime."" One-Eyed Jacks is the name of a brothel in the TV series ""Twin Peaks"" created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. That it shares the same name as this film is acknowledged in dialogue between Donna Hayward and Audrey Horne, where Audrey asks Donna if she has heard of ""One-Eyed Jacks"" and Donna responds ""Isn't that that Western with Marlon Brando?"" Johnny Burnette released a tie-in song ""The Ballad of the One-Eyed Jacks"". The film fell into the public domain and for years was"
"Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and Joshamee Gibbs (Kevin McNally) follow Jack, Will and Elizabeth in the course of the films. The fourth film features Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and Angelica (Penélope Cruz), while the fifth film features Armando Salazar (Javier Bardem), Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) and Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario). The films take place in a fictionalized historical setting; a world ruled by the British Empire, the East India Trading Company (based on the real East India Company) and the Spanish Empire, with pirates representing freedom from the ruling powers. The film series started in 2003 with """", which received positive reviews"
"Savage Detectives"" were undiscovered writers who began trafficking in Acapulco Gold in order to fund a literary magazine, and Acapulco Gold cigarettes are described as a top brand in David Gerrold's Nebula Award-winning fix-up ""When HARLIE Was One"". However, the strain received its greatest tribute in Norman Spinrad's 1969 novel ""Bug Jack Barron"". Spinrad's work described a futuristic United States where marijuana usage was not only legal but commonplace, with its users including senior elected officials and major celebrities, and where the leading brand was Acapulco Golds, which were promoted on national television with Juan Valdez-style advertising: Mexican peon leading"