Blackbeard the Pirate is a 1952 American adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, and Torin Thatcher.

The film was made by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by Edmund Grainger from a screenplay by Alan Le May based on the story by DeVallon Scott.

The film follows British Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard (Keith Andes), who sets out to earn a reward by proving that privateer Henry Morgan (Torin Thatcher) also engages in piracy.

Once Maynard and fellow spy Briggs come on board, they discover that the pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard (Robert Newton) has murdered Bellamy and taken over as captain.

She tells Maynard that she agreed to marry Bellamy to escape from Morgan, from whom she has stolen treasure, which is now hidden in a clothes chest.

Morgan quickly gets a captured Spanish galleon into seaworthy condition, figuring Blackbeard won't be able to resist attacking it.

[8] In his December 26, 1952 review in The New York Times, Howard Thompson wrote: “…This R. K. O. swashbuckler offers a lusty rogues gallery in opulent Technicolor, with little occasion for rejoicing, however.

For while this piracy package streamlines history with salty good-naturedness, the material afforded Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix and Keith Andes holds few pattern deviations… director Raoul Walsh does succeed in projecting some brisk, pictorial animation.

Sporting a beehive chin growth that transmits a volume gamut of roars and even belches, the actor wallows through an outrageously flamboyant caricature of his Long John Silver part in Disney's Treasure Island.”[9]