Charles Laughton plays Kidd, a merchant captain who cons the King of England (Henry Daniell) into allowing him to take to the sea to recover a lost treasure and escort a ship back to London.

An old fellow conspirator who he thought dead (John Carradine) and a mysterious young man (Randolph Scott) manage to get on board and cause problems for Kidd.

Date : 1945
Cast : Charles Laughton as Capt.

William Kidd
Randolph Scott as Adam Mercy
Barbara Britton as Lady Anne Dunstan
John Carradine as Orange Povey
Gilbert Roland as Jose Lorenzo
John Qualen as Bart Blivens
Sheldon Leonard as Cyprian Boyle
William Farnum as Capt.

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Henry Daniell as King William III
Reginald Owen as Cary Shadwell
Abner Biberman as Theodore Blades
Clifford Brooke
Harry Cording as Newgate Prison Warder
James Dime as Pirate
Lumsden Hare as Lord Fallsworth
Al Hill (actor) as Peter Sharfstone
Keith Hitchcock
Frank Mills (British actor) as Ship's Sailor Waiter
Edgar Norton as Nobleman with King William III
Reginald Sheffield as Captain of the King's Guard
Ray Teal as Michael O'Shawn
Eric Wilton as Nobleman with King William III
Frederick Worlock as Newgate Prison Governor Landers