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I remember an old black and white movie where one pirate saves another's life.
I can't recall the exact line, but it was something like "I had to save you; you're the only other person I've ever met who is as evil as I am."
Courtesy of LLM:
Could be the 2003 Disney movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl? Not black & white though.
It’s spoken by Captain Hector Barbossa (played by Geoffrey Rush) to Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) during a tense moment on the island. The full exchange is:
Could be the 1940 pirate film "The Sea Hawk", starring Errol Flynn and Claude Rains.
In one scene, the villainous Captain Thorpe (played by Claude Rains) says to the protagonist, Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn), something along the lines of:
Another possibility is "Captain Blood" (1935), also starring Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, where rival pirates exchange similar banter.
Other options are:
Thing just made up a scene whole cloth.
https://youtu.be/6Q5j56oDL8s
Full movie.
https://youtu.be/6Q5j56oDL8s
It was Charles Laughton speaking to John Carradine
For something a tad more modern, I can't praise "Black Sails" enough. All the sex and violence fo GOT with a much faster pace.
edit =forgot the link. shiver me timbers.