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Pirates (1986) More at IMDbPro »

• Roman Polanski conceived this film several years before he actually made it. He had hoped to cast Jack Nicholson as Captain Red, and himself as The Frog.
  
  
• As of 2002 the ship "Neptune" from the movie is anchored in the harbor of the Italian city of Genoa (near the "Molo Vecchio"). It has been made a museum and can be visited.
  
  
• Damien Thomas was cast at short notice replacing an actor who pulled out.
  
  
• Opening film at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
  
  
• Timothy Dalton was to play the part of Don Alfonso de la Torre before definitively backing out to make himself more available for the next James Bond film.
  
  

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