Dancing pirates
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Dancing pirates |
| Original title | Dancing pirate |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lloyd Corrigan |
| script |
Ray Harris Francis Edward Faragoh Jack Wagner Boris Ingster |
| production | John Speaks |
| music | Alfred Newman |
| camera | William V. Skall |
| cut | Archie Marshek |
| occupation | |
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Dancing Pirates is a 1936 American film musical based on the short story Glorious Buccaneer by Emma Lindsay Squier.
action
Boston, 1820. Jonathan Pride, a dance teacher who specializes in waltzes, is attacked by men and taken onto a pirate ship. The ship sails around South America while Jonathan has to work hard. Jonathan finally escapes from the ship on the coast of California. An umbrella and a jukebox from his aunt is all he has left. Jonathan wanders around and reaches a small Mexican village. The residents have been alerted by the sight of the ship and are now firing cannons and rifles at the hiker. He is hiding in the bedroom of Serafina, the daughter of the mayor Don Emilio. However, Jonathan is soon discovered, arrested and sentenced to death without trial. Even Jonathan's protests of innocence cannot change the fact that Don Emilio and the police chief Pamfilo want to carry out the execution.
Serafina learns that Jonathan is a dance teacher who has special knowledge of the waltz. Together with the other women in the village, she forces the execution to be postponed. Of course, Jonathan likes to teach her the waltz. Serafina, herself a talented dancer, is fascinated by the practice lessons. However, classes are disrupted by Don Baltazar, a rebel leader from Monterey. Jonathan is captured by Don Baltazar's men. Don Emilio sees the rebel leader as a respectable military leader and treats him with all honors. Serafina reciprocates Baltazar's advances, but is supposed to release Jonathan. Baltazar goes into the deal. But shortly before the wedding, Jonathan, who has meanwhile escaped from captivity, shows up with a group of Indians who are captured by the rebels. The wedding can go on, however, now with Jonathan as bridegroom.
criticism
BR Crisler found in the New York Times that the film was important to the technical aspects of color film, otherwise it was lightweight and amusing triviality in terms of dance, singing, and comedy.
Awards
In 1937 Russell Lewis was nominated for an Oscar for Best Dance Directing .
background
The film premiered on May 22, 1936, and the film opened a little later in Germany.
The production company Pioneer Pictures had the film shot using Technicolor's newly developed 3-color process . Today there is only one incomplete 35 mm copy and a few 16 mm copies made using the 2-color process.
Charles Collins, stage veteran at New York and London theaters, played his first leading role in a film.
Web links
- Dancing pirates in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ German movie poster from the pre-war period
- ↑ Review of the New York Times (English)