1h 16min | Adventure, Comedy, History | 26 April 1951 | Color
Director: Charles Barton (as Charles T. Barton)
Stars: Donald O'Connor, Helena Carter, Will Geer.
Harold Belfer ... choreographer (uncredited)
Watched online, good print. Also on AmazonPrime.
In the Tap! Appendix for Donald O'Connor. He does a song/dance routine in a tavern to raise money for sea passage away from that town. Among other good moves, he does his somersault off a wall.
Although there are 3 songs in the Soundtracks, I only correlate 1 with his singing/dancing. But he danced to at least 1 other tune before singing about Percy, so maybe that accounts for another.
Rated 4 on 2014-06-03; I think I've seen other extra low ratings around that date, which is when I retired.
It's not that bad, but I would NOT classify this as a Musical; I'll not contest it though. Nor do I understand why it's tagged as History.
I'm not an aficionado of pirate films, and this one doesn't strike me as being all that interesting. Just the plot twist that we have a ship of innocent prisoners acting as pirates doesn't grab me, and having a woman among the pirate captains who congregate on Tortuga doesn't impress me either. (She's the actress who did the strength stunts in court during Adam's Rib ('49).)
Rated 4 on 2014-06-03; I think I've seen other extra low ratings around that date, which is when I retired.
It's not that bad, but I would NOT classify this as a Musical; I'll not contest it though. Nor do I understand why it's tagged as History.
I'm not an aficionado of pirate films, and this one doesn't strike me as being all that interesting. Just the plot twist that we have a ship of innocent prisoners acting as pirates doesn't grab me, and having a woman among the pirate captains who congregate on Tortuga doesn't impress me either. (She's the actress who did the strength stunts in court during Adam's Rib ('49).)
Shrug-worthy.
Universal, dir. Barton; 5
