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The Buccaneer
Lux Radio Theatre · November 14, 1938 · 59 min · 9,200 words
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From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Tork Gable in the Buccaneer with a lamp Bradner, Akim Tamiro and Gertrude Michael. Knuckles presents Hollywood. In the Buccaneer, we bring you the romance, the thrilling drama of Jean L'Athete, hero and rogue of old Louisiana.
Tonight's special guest is the distinguished author and historian, Mr. Rupert Hughes. Lower Silvers conduct our music. We want you to know how much we appreciate appreciate your loyalty. Your daily use of Luxflakes makes it possible for us to bring you this program. Did you ever think of this? You can save steps and make your
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Behind the making of the buccaneer was my hope that this picture would be something more than entertainment. That it would revive the memory of a hero whom history has all but forgotten. Bringing out of the swamps of Louisiana, out of the mire of infamy, this fabulous figure scattered one of the blackest nights in American history with the bright flame of victory.
He was Jean Lafitte, the ruthless lord of Barataria, a pirate island only 90 miles from New Orleans. He was Jean Lafitte the pirate patriot, who with Andrew Jackson saved New Orleans in the After the war of 1812, and of whom Byron wrote, he left a Corsair's name to other times, linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes, and without whom all America, west of the Mississippi,
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