DVD
The Boy and the Pirates (1960)
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- Unknown
- Studio
- Sony Pictures
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
included · Enchanted
The Boy and the Pirates
Jimmy desires to be a pirate when one day he discovers a magic bottle on the beach. He makes a wish and suddenly finds himself aboard Blackbeard's ship. Soon he realizes that being a pirate isn't what he expected.
Fantasy, Family, Adventure
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Enchanted.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
The genie imposes a three-day deadline to replace the bottle; Jimmy's pirate-era escape fulfills it and restores him to his own day.
A magical bottle grants a boy's wish and sends him into Blackbeard's era.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan18.8
Weighted archive score
Time-travel significance6/10
high confidence
Quality consensus5.3/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 38.42 base × 48.8% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Charles Herbert, Susan Gordon, Murvyn Vye, Paul Guilfoyle, Timothy Carey
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Releases & formats
2 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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DVD
Midnight Movies Double Feature: Crystalstone / The Boy and the Pirates (1960-1987)
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- Release date
- Jun 27, 2006
- Studio
- Sony Pictures
- Resolution
- 480i (NTSC)
- Region / playback
- Region 1
- Discs
- DVD | Two-disc set (2 DVD-5)