Dancing Pirate (1936)
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Dancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first three-strip Technicolor feature. Pirate was likewise filmed in the three-strip process, but the film is currently available only in its black-and-white reissue version. London… More Dancing Pirate was the second feature-length production by Pioneer Pictures, whose earlier effort Becky Sharp was the first three-strip Technicolor feature. Pirate was likewise filmed in the three-strip process, but the film is currently available only in its black-and-white reissue version. London and Broadway musical comedy favorite Charles Collins stars as Jonathan Pride, a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications. Featured in the cast are the Dancing Cansinos, whose daughter Rita Hayworth was just beginning her own screen career. The Rodgers & Hart score, like the film itself, is pretty lackluster, but Charles Collins is a pleasing screen personality who should have gone much farther in movies than he did. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Lloyd Corrigan
- Written By
- Francis Edward Faragoh, Ray Harris
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Musical & Performing Arts
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 22, 1936 Wide
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Cast
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Charles Collins
as Jonathan Pride
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Frank Morgan
as Alcalde
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Steffi Duna
as Serafina
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Luis Alberni
as Pamfilo
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Victor Varconi
as Don Baltazar
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Jack LaRue
as Chago
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Alma Real
as Blanca
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William V. Mong
as Tecolote
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Mitchell Lewis
as Pirate Chief
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Cy Kendall
as Pirate Cook
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Julian Rivero
as Shepherd
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Harold Waldridge
as Orville
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Vera Lewis
as Orville's mother
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Nora Cecil
as Landlady
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Ellen Lowe
as Miss Ponsonby
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John Eberts
as Mozo
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Max Wagner
as Pirate mate
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James Farley
as Sailor
- Rita Hayworth
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Eduardo Cansino
as The Royal Cansinos
