Pirates and Popcorn at the Brattle

Swashbuckler will be screening at the Brattle Theatre tonight, Wednesday, September 19, at 9:30 pm.

The Brattle Theatre is celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day, and they've made an interesting choice. Instead of going with the obvious, as in an earlier Pirates of the Caribbean, they went with the 1976 adventure Swashbuckler.

The Brattle's release calls Swashbuckler "little-known." No kidding, but James Earl Jones, the master of gravitas (sorry, Stone Phillips), the voice of God, is in the movie as a sidekick, and he will be speaking like a pirate. Wait, make that a pirate with perfect elocution. We did see on IMDB that Jones gets to speak the immortal line, "We've come to make war, Captain, not love!"

Besides Jones, Robert Shaw of Jaws stars as the titular swashbuckler. In his review of the flick, Roger Ebert declared that Shaw was "an absolutely first-rate B actor." That may be the most backhanded compliment Bostonist has ever seen.

Best of all, if you dress like a pirate or a wench, the Brattle will let you in at half price.

Image of Swashbuckler poster from Wikipedia.