A man interests some people in financing an expedition to a small island where he tells them that Captain Kidd's treasure is buried in this MGM short subject.
It's a sumptuous short with a long flashback sequence showing Stanley Andrews as Kidd. MGM shorts in this period were elaborate affairs, partly to entice the audiences with top-grade work from the Tiffany of Studios, and partly to serve as training grounds for directors. Here the director - and narrator - is Leslie Fenton, making the transition from actor to the man wielding the megaphone. He would not remain at MGM, but become a director for RKO. He would direct his last of 14 features in 1951 and die in 1978, aged 76.
It's a sumptuous short with a long flashback sequence showing Stanley Andrews as Kidd. MGM shorts in this period were elaborate affairs, partly to entice the audiences with top-grade work from the Tiffany of Studios, and partly to serve as training grounds for directors. Here the director - and narrator - is Leslie Fenton, making the transition from actor to the man wielding the megaphone. He would not remain at MGM, but become a director for RKO. He would direct his last of 14 features in 1951 and die in 1978, aged 76.