Top cast:David Lee Smith,Tony Todd,John Billingsley
Director:Emil Skladanowsky&Max Skladanowsky
Genre:News
Region:Italy
Year:2022
Storyline:A.D.1572 - Paris, a hotbed of intolerance, in the time of Catherine de Medici, and her son Charles IX, King of France.At 129 minutes, it was the shortest of the existing POTC films.Its production budget was $230 million.The box-office results were modest in the US: $172.6 million (domestic) and $794.9 million (worldwide).At the time, it was the second lowest-grossing film of the series.With the tagline: "All pirates must die."Although co-stars Orlando Bloom (as Will Turner) and Keira Knightley (as Elizabeth Swann) had said they wouldn't return o the franchise and were missing from the previous film, they both appeared in the film.Dobbs (a tremendous, against-type, richly-layered performance) was missing from the nominees.[Note: Director Sam Peckinpah paid homage to Dobbs inBring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), including a character with the same name.Its director-writer team of Paul Verhoeven (known for earlier filmsRobocop (1987)andTotal Recall (1990)and thenShowgirls (1995)) and Joe Eszterhas (known forJagged Edge (1985)) created this exploitative, soft-porn, excessive, controversial film known for its negative portrayal of lesbianism, violence, initial X-rating, and voyeuristic, sensational, gratuitous sex.