Hollywood thought it knew where to dig for more buried treasure. Last week five studios were plotting ten pictures about pirates. Already sailing the Spanish Main: Walt Disney's Treasure Island, Columbia's Fortunes of Captain Blood, Universal-International's Buccaneer's Girl. Universal was preparing three more: Double Crossbones, Against All Flags, Admiral of the Black. Columbia planned another two: Last of the Buccaneers and a 15 episode serial called Pirates of the High Seas. 20th Century-Fox would film Anne of the Indies, and RKO Blackbeard the Pirate.
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