Captain Kidd | Movie 1945

Captain Kidd is a 1945 American adventure film starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, and Barbara Britton. It was directed by Rowland V. Lee, his last before he retired, and produced by Benedict Bogeaus and James Nasser. Werner Janssen conducted the music. United Artists released the film. It has entered the public domain because the producers neglected to renew the copyright in 1972.

As a work of fiction rather than a documentary film, the story contains historically incorrect material, including a London scene showing Tower Bridge two hundred years before it was built. Kidd's London prisoner crew was removed before it sailed from England and Kidd was forced to find a new crew in New York City. Kidd returned to New York, not to London.

Laughton reprised his part in the 1952 farce Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd.

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