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In 1776, a mulatto sailor is marooned on an island after assaulting the wife of pirate captain Nathaniel Clegg. By 1792, Clegg has supposedly been captured by the Royal Navy and hanged. His resting place is the coastal village of Dymchurch on the Romney Marsh .
3 days ago · The UK release followed on June 25, 1962. While marked as a “B” film, Captain Clegg is anything but “B.” Honestly, it reminds me of one of those live action Disney films that were really good during the same era. What we have here is at the heart a tale of a pirate captain with twists, turns, elements of horror under the guise of a secrecy.
Nov 13, 2013 · YEAR RELEASED: 1962. DIRECTOR: Peter Graham Scott. CAST: Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen and Oliver Reed. REVIEW BY CARL SYKES. The film opens with the eponymous Captain Clegg overseeing the ‘trial’ of one of his crew members who is charged with attacking the Captain’s wife.
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Aug 12, 2005 · Captain Clegg, otherwise known as Night Creatures, is a Hammer Studios film on par with their well-known masterpieces. I can’t say much about the plot without releasing a spoiler, so I will simply say it involves illegal alcohol trading, grumpy British officers who look very much like pirates, and a herd of demons riding horses in the marsh.
In 1776, a mulatto sailor is marooned on an island after assaulting the wife of pirate captain Nathaniel Clegg. By 1792, Clegg has supposedly been captured by the Royal Navy and hanged. His resting place is the coastal village of Dymchurch on the Romney Marsh .
Captain Clegg is a 1962 British film produced by Hammer, directed by Peter Graham Scott and starring Peter Cushing, and loosely adapted from Russell Thorndike's novel Doctor Syn.
During 1776 there was a notorious pirate sailing the high seas named Captain Clegg. When one of his crew, a mulatto (Milton Reid), killed his wife shortly after she gave birth, he cut out the man's tongue and marooned him on an island on the coral reef - however, this man was picked up by a passing ship later on... Moving forward to 1792, and ...
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