The Buccaneer (
1938) is a
adventure film made by
Paramount Pictures. It 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 novel
Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon. The music score was by
George Antheil and the cinematography by
Victor Milner.
The film stars
Fredric March,
Franciska Gaal and
Akim Tamiroff with
Margot Grahame,
Walter Brennan,
Ian Keith,
Spring Byington,
Douglass Dumbrille,
Beulah Bondi and
Anthony Quinn.
Cecil B. DeMille remade the film in 1958 in
Technicolor and
VistaVision with
the same title, but because of ill health, he allowed
Henry Wilcoxon, his longtime friend and associate, to produce it, and the film was directed by
Anthony Quinn. DeMille received no screen credit, but did make a personal appearance in the
prologue to the film, much as he did in
The Ten Commandments. The 1958 version of
The Buccaneer stars
Yul Brynner,
Charles Boyer and
Claire Bloom, with
Charlton Heston as
Andrew Jackson. Douglas Dumbrille appeared in both versions.