Offshore Quarantine

Sailin’ ye seas o’ social distancin’ since 2020

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

    Where to begin? We end the second set of voyages of the Offshore Quarantine nearly where we began, eleven journeys ago with 2003’s Master and Commander. Shot nearly simultaneously with Disney’s towering 2003 commercial success, the film we will be shipping with tonight, the two films were in contention with one another for sailing crew,…

  • The Crimson Pirate (1952)

    In this doughty 1952 addition to the canon of star-produced maritime vehicles, the nimble and charming Burt Lancaster steps into the sea boots of Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn before him. Lancaster’s entertainment work prior to his cinematic career was as an acrobat in the circus and in this film, as well as others, he…

  • Treasure Island (1950)

    Today, mariners, we’ll be clapping eyes on to the 1950 adaptation of what may be the foundation of modern maritime adventure fiction, Treasure Island. We’ll be screening the Anglo-American Disney adaptation, one of at least 37 screen and 24 theatrical productions based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1881 work, originally serialized in the United Kingdom for…

  • The Sea Hawk (1940)

    Errol Flynn puts in his second appearance upon the plague ship known as Offshore Quarantine! Flynn’s director on Captain Blood, Michael Curtiz, also helms this picture. Here, Flynn portrays fictional Elizabethan privateer Geoffrey Thorpe, loosely based on a real-life privateer of the era whose identity shall remain undisclosed at the present time due to Admiralty…

  • Captain Blood (1935)

    Irish doctor Peter Blood, played by Errol Flynn in his first high profile lead role, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to transportation and enslavement in the West Indies. While in Port Royal he becomes personal physician to the cruel and petty governor. When a Spanish privateer attacks the town, Blood seizes the moment…

  • The Black Pirate (1926)

    A wealthy young man survives the taking of his vessel by a band of pirates but loses his father in the incident, and then in disguise joins the pirate crew. The mythic setting may be the English Caribbean. They take another prize and the young man works to save the vessel and ship’s company surreptitiously…