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CLASSIC LOBBY CARDS COLLECTORS EDITION NO. LC3. PRINTED ON HIGH QUALITY STOCK BY THOMAS TODD CO., BOSTON. Superb reproduction issued in 1984. Measures 16" x 13". Mint condition. Comes rolled. MORE ABOUT THE MOVIE: United Artists released the low-budget CAPTAIN KIDD in 1945, hoping to cash in on the swashbuckler craze that was jumpstarted by pirate films like CAPTAIN BLOOD and THE SEA HAWK. Whereas those films had dashing Hollywood idols as their leading swashbucklers (like Errol Flynn), CAPTAIN KIDD has Quasimodo himself, Charles Laughton, as the title character. Laughton enjoyed the role so much, that he played the character again for laughs in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD. Norman Raine?s script was very loosely based on the well-documented life of buccaneer, William Kidd. CAPTAIN KIDD was a modest success at the box office, and got positive press mostly for the performances. The film went on to capture an Academy Award nomination for best score, courtesy of Werner Janssen?s symphony orchestra. The movie was directed by Rowland V. Lee, who directed such classics as TOWER OF LONDON, SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, and RETURN OF DR. FU MANCHU. Cowboy star Randolph Scott takes a break from the Western genre to portray Captain Kidd?s heroic antagonist, Adam Mercy. Genre great John Carradine is Captain Kidd?s fellow schemer, Orange Povey. The sexy Barbara Britton plays Lady Ann, a woman that is reluctantly taken aboard Captain Kidd?s vessel.