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Petticoat Pirates | |
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Directed by | David MacDonald |
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Produced by | Gordon L.T. Scott |
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Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
Edited by | Ann Chegwidden |
Music by | Don Banks |
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Distributed by | Warner-Pathé Distributors |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Petticoat Pirates is a 1961 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald and starring Charlie Drake, Anne Heywood, Cecil Parker, John Turner and Thorley Walters. [1] The film had its premiere on 30 November 1961 at the Warner Theatre in London's West End.
Wren Officer Anne Stevens and the 150 girls under her command are piqued. On the grounds that Wrens can do anything that men can do, at least as well or better, they demand the right to serve at sea in warships. When their request is turned down by the authorities they board a frigate, imprison the skeleton crew, and set off to sea, where they unintentionally become embroiled in a training exercise between British and US fleets...
According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was considered a "money maker" at the British box office in 1962. [2]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Two sequences, one involving Charlie Drake's activities in the boiler room, the other a nightmare in which he plays all the parts from prisoner to judge in a navy court-martial, have the berserk lunacy of some of Drake's television shows: the humour is crude but vigorous. The rest of the film is in the worst traditions of British farce – flat-footed, ineffectual and coy." [3]
Leslie Halliwell called the film an: "uncertain comedy fantasy." [4]
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 1/5 stars, writing: "In his third tilt at movie stardom, TV comic Charlie Drake again finds himself up a well-known creek without a script. This time, however, he's only got himself to blame, as he co-wrote this woeful comedy, in which he plays a timid stoker ordered to disguise himself as a Wren in order to recover a battleship hijacked by a mutinous all-woman crew." [5]
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