1983
PG
Orion Pictures
1 h 36 m

1983
PG
Orion Pictures
1 h 36 m

Summary After serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.

Directed By: Mel Damski

Written By: Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, David Sherlock

1983
PG
Orion Pictures
1 h 36 m

1983
PG
Orion Pictures
1 h 36 m

Yellowbeard

Name: Yellowbeard
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Released: 1983-06-24
Duration: 1 min 36 s
Rating: 39
Cast: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Peter Cook

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews

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Summary After serving two decades in prison, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) breaks out determined to recover the treasure that he buried so long ago, alongside his son, old crew, and the British Navy.

Directed By: Mel Damski

Written By: Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, David Sherlock

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews

13% Positive
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25% Mixed
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63% Negative
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Metascore

Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews

13% Positive
1 Review

25% Mixed
2 Reviews

63% Negative
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

The best way to approach it is not as a comedy but as a straight pirate movie with exceedingly odd twists. Certainly it makes better use of its sterling actors than The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978), also co-written by and co-starring Cook, made of its sultans-of-comedy cast. [30 Jun 2006, p.R25]

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TV Guide Magazine

There are about as many laughs in the film's 101 minutes as in a three-minute sketch by the Monty Python troupe, from which much of the cast hails.

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The New York Times

What Yellowbeard establishes is that for even the funniest of performers, a good script may be as essential as pitching is to baseball.

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The Associated Press

Yellowbeard is a puzzlement. How could so many comedic talents produce such a mirthless movie? [27 Jun 1983]

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Chicago Sun-Times

There's a funny line or two, a fetching performance by Stacey Nelkin as a young wench, some nonsense about a buried treasure, and then Yellowbeard is soon over and soon forgotten.

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The Guardian

Do you want to laugh already? Then laugh now, before you see this dispiritingly unfunny pirate movie. Later, it's difficult. Very brief moments only, I'm afraid. [25 Sep 1983, p.19]

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Time Out

The script, for which Chapman and Cook must bear some responsibility, is a three-minute Python skit bloated out to feature length, involving buried treasure, revenge, and machinations close to the throne. Depressing stuff.

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Production Company Seagoat Films, Hemdale, Cinema '84, Iron Pics, Yellowbeard Associates

Release Date Jun 24, 1983

Duration 1 h 36 m

Rating PG

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Tagline A picture filled with public floggings, saucy tarts, looney lords, outrageousness, offensiveness, even a stuffed crocodile and sheep! [Australia Theatrical]

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Graham Chapman

Yellowbeard

Peter Boyle

Moon

Cheech Marin

El Segundo

Tommy Chong

El Nebuloso

Peter Cook

Lord Lambourn

Marty Feldman

Gilbert

Martin Hewitt

Dan

Michael Hordern

Dr. Gilpin

Eric Idle

Commander Clement

Madeline Kahn

Betty

James Mason

Captain Hughes

John Cleese

Blind Pew

Kenneth Mars

Mr. Crisp and Verdugo

Spike Milligan

Flunkie

Stacey Nelkin

Triola

Nigel Planer

Mansell

Susannah York

Lady Churchill

Beryl Reid

Lady Lambourn

Ferdy Mayne

Mr. Beamish

John H. Francis

Chaplain

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