Yellowbeard
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| Directed by | Mel Damski |
| Produced by | Carter De Haven |
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| Music by | John Morris |
| Cinematography | Gerry Fisher |
| Edited by | William H. Reynolds |
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| Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4.3 million |
For the snake, see Bothrops asper.
Yellowbeard is a 1983 British comedy film directed by Mel Damski and written by Graham Chapman, Peter Cook, Bernard McKenna, and David Sherlock. Led by an ensemble cast starring Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Cook, Marty Feldman, Martin Hewitt, Michael Hordern, Eric Idle, Madeline Kahn, James Mason, and John Cleese, the film features the final cinematic appearances of Marty Feldman and Peter Bull.
The pirate Yellowbeard (Chapman) is incarcerated for 20 years for tax evasion. He survives the sentence but has not disclosed the whereabouts of his vast treasure. The Royal Navy hatches a plot to increase his sentence by 140 years, knowing that he will escape to set out for his treasure. He does so, recruiting a motley crew of companions. He had left a map of the treasure in the chimney of his wife's pub, but she burned it. She then tells Yellowbeard that she had the map tattooed on their son's head. Things go wrong when his traitorous former bosun Mr. Moon (Boyle) takes over the ship. With the Head of the British Secret Service (Idle) hot on their trail, they eventually find the island, where the terrible despot "El Nebuloso" and his majordomo "El Segundo" (Cheech and Chong) have taken residence with the treasure, and the battle for the prize commences.
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