The Make Believe Pirates

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The Make Believe Pirates
Directed by Marco Elter
Written by Curt Alexander
Guglielmo Giannini
Starring Assia Noris
CinematographyOtello Martelli
Release date
  • 1937 (1937)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Make Believe Pirates (Italian : Allegri masnadieri) is a 1937 Italian "white-telephones" comedy film directed by Marco Elter. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. [1]

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References

  1. "Italian Comedy - The State of Things". labiennale.org. Archived from the original on 1 August 2010. Retrieved 1 August 2010.