The corsair ship

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Movie
German title The corsair ship
Original title The Princess and the Pirate
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1944
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Butler
script Allen Boretz
Curtis Kenyon
Melville Shavelson
Don Hartman
Everett Freeman
production Samuel Goldwyn
music David Rose
camera William E. Snyder ,
Victor Milner
cut Daniel Mandell
occupation

The Corsairs' Ship is a 1944 American comedic adventure film directed by David Butler , based on a short story by Sy Bartlett . The US premiere was on November 17, 1944; the premiere in Germany took place on September 5, 1952.

action

In the 18th century the notorious pirate The Hook was up to mischief. He has been using the name since he lost a hand and has a hook for it. Hook buries his treasure, hides the treasure map and plans to kidnap Princess Margaret. Margaret left her father to marry a civil man. She is traveling by ship and looks for the passenger in the cabin next to her. The man is an actor who calls himself The Great Sylvester . Margaret complains about the noise he makes during his rehearsals. Sylvester, who does not recognize Margaret as a princess, tries to impress her with small samples of his art. When Hook attacks the ship, he turns out to be a coward. He disguises himself as a gypsy and is captured by the pirates along with Margaret. Sylvester is under the protection of the ship tattoo artist Featherhead (feather head), who wants to keep the supposed gypsy as a love slave. When Sylvester reveals himself to be a man, Featherhead plans to betray Hook. He wants to steal the treasure map; Sylvester is supposed to smuggle the treasure to his cousin on a nearby island.

Just before the ship anchors, Margaret reveals her true identity to Sylvester, but Sylvester does not believe her. Featherhead has made a small boat with which Sylvester and Margaret sail to their cousin's island after they have successfully stolen the treasure map. When they get there after sailing for days, they are told the cousin is gone and will be back in two weeks. You need to rent a room. There is murder and manslaughter on the island. Sylvester tries to earn some money with a cabaret performance, but only Margaret's attractiveness saves her from being murdered. One of the spectators, Governor La Roche, recognizes Margaret and has her brought to his palace. Sylvester does not notice that Margaret was kidnapped on La Roche's orders. He goes to the governor and asks for help. La Roche believes New Year's Eve is the man Margaret ran away because of and locks him up. The two are treated well, but Margaret goes on a hunger strike.

While having breakfast with La Roche on New Year's Eve one morning, Hook, La Roche's secret partner, appears to advise on how to find and kill the thief of the treasure map. Sylvester rushes to his room to destroy the card. Featherhead has sneaked into the palace and emerges from his hiding place under Sylvester's bed. He knocks down New Year's Eve and tattoos the card on his chest. In the evening, New Year's Eve goes swimming with La Roche and Hook. He discovers the card on his chest, but cannot hide it from the two of them. He knocks Hook out, gets his clothes and goes, disguised as Hook, on board the pirate ship. Hook wakes up, goes on board and puts New Year's Eve below deck. Margaret is also on board and tries to shoot the supposed pirate. But at that moment her father arrives with his troops and frees his daughter and Sylvester. Sylvester thinks Margaret will turn to him, but to his surprise she falls into the arms of one of the soldiers (played by Bing Crosby ).

Reviews

“Imaginative joke that satirizes contemporary American pirate films aptly. Although a bit out of date, still entertaining. "

- Lexicon of International Films

"Still totally weird."

- Cinema

Awards

Academy Awards 1945

background

The film had a budget of approximately $ 2 million.

The well-known directing duo Melvin Frank and Norman Panama worked on the script, unnamed in the credits . The art director of the film was Ernst Fegté, who was born in Hamburg .

For Virginia Mayo it was the first leading role in the fifth film. Bing Crosby makes a cameo on board the royal ship. Bob Hope was "loaned" by Paramount Pictures for approximately $ 133,500. He worked for Samuel Goldwyn for 12 weeks. In addition to this film, he also starred in the musical They Got Me Covered , also directed by David Butler.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
  2. ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/das-korsarenschiff,1298381,ApplicationMovie.html
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037193/business
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037193/trivia