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Le danseur pirate

Original title: Dancing Pirate
  • 1936
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  • 1h 23m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
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Le danseur pirate (1936)
AdventureComedyMusicMusicalRomance

The story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!The story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!The story of a Boston dance teacher who gets shanghaied by buccaneers who might make his next steps be off the plank!

  • Director
    • Lloyd Corrigan
  • Writers
    • Ray Harris
    • Francis Edward Faragoh
    • Jack Wagner
  • Stars
    • Charles Collins
    • Frank Morgan
    • Steffi Duna
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    5.2/10
    422
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Lloyd Corrigan
    • Writers
      • Ray Harris
      • Francis Edward Faragoh
      • Jack Wagner
    • Stars
      • Charles Collins
      • Frank Morgan
      • Steffi Duna
    • 31User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Charles Collins
    Charles Collins
    • Jonathan Pride
    Frank Morgan
    Frank Morgan
    • Alcalde
    Steffi Duna
    Steffi Duna
    • Serafina
    Luis Alberni
    Luis Alberni
    • Pamfilo
    Victor Varconi
    Victor Varconi
    • Don Balthazar
    Jack La Rue
    Jack La Rue
    • Chago
    Alma Real
    • Blanca
    William V. Mong
    William V. Mong
    • Tecolote
    Mitchell Lewis
    Mitchell Lewis
    • Pirate Chief
    Julian Rivero
    Julian Rivero
    • Shepherd
    John Eberts
    • Mozo
    The Royal Cansino Dancers
    • Royal Cansinos
    • (as Cansino Family)
    Sam Appel
    Sam Appel
    • Café Owner
    • (uncredited)
    Eduardo Cansino
    Eduardo Cansino
    • Specialty Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    Nora Cecil
    Nora Cecil
    • Landlady
    • (uncredited)
    Jim Farley
    Jim Farley
    • Sailor
    • (uncredited)
    Rita Hayworth
    Rita Hayworth
    • Specialty Dancer
    • (uncredited)
    Cy Kendall
    Cy Kendall
    • Bouncing Betty's Cook
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Lloyd Corrigan
    • Writers
      • Ray Harris
      • Francis Edward Faragoh
      • Jack Wagner
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    7davidgoldyn

    Funny Frank Morgan and Unknown Charles Collins

    I got this out of the 50 musicals set. It said it was in Technicolor but it the print was curiously in black and white. The Plot-a dancing master gets kidnapped to be a galley worker on a pirate boat. He ends up in Calfornia near Monterey which at that time was populated with Mexicans. At first they arrest him, but he charms the whole town. This was an entertaining little musical. Not perfect and not a classic but definitely worth a look for Charles Collins and Frank Morgan.

    It had a lead I have never heard of... Charles Collins who was quite a talented dancer-singer-actor . He kind of looks like Kevin Kline. Amazed the man didn't have a more illustrious career as he had all the makings of what constituted a star back then. Quite an interesting discovery. Frank Morgan (the wizard of oz) is quite funny as the bumbling mayor. The film was quite enjoyable.
    6boblipton

    Third Technicolor Feature

    Boston dance teacher Charles Collins is shangaied by pirates. He escapes from them in Spanish California, where he is about to be hanged by Alcalde Frank Morgan (!). Morgan's daughter, Steffi Duna saves him on condition he will teach her the waltz. While this is going on, renegade captain Victor Varconi marches in with his troops. He plans to marry Miss Duna, receiving a dowry of hundreds of thousands of acres and tens of thousands of cattle.

    Although I looked at a black&white copy, this was the third feature shot in 3-strip Technicolor, and the costuming betokens this. The story is silly and conventional for the era, and there are plenty of skilled farceurs in the cast, including Luis Alberni, with one immense production number feature Eduardo Cansino -- Rita Hayworth's father -- and his dance troupe. As an actor, Collins is a good dancer. He was born in 1904, and married dance partner Dorothy Stone, with whom he appeared in several Broadway musicals through 1945. His movie career was limited. Another film lead was his in 1944, but he appeared in a total of a dozen shorts and features from 1932 through being part of the chorus in THE WIZ. He died in 1999.
    8meberts

    A Forgotten L.A. Movie

    The Dancing Pirate is worth watching for a several reasons: the over-the-top early Technicolor hues, the spectacular finale featuring the Royal Cansino Dancers (including a young Rita Hayworth) and a very small appearance at the beginning of the movie by Pat Ryan, later to be Pat Nixon. But more than these things, I like The Dancing Pirate as a forgotten movie about Los Angeles. The movie depicts a Boston dance teacher kidnapped by pirates who escapes into the sleepy Alta California village of La Paloma.

    This is an obvious adaptation of the real-life story of Joseph Chapman. Chapman, originally from Boston, deserted Hippolyte de Bouchard's piratical coastal raiding party to become the first yanqui resident of Los Angeles in 1818. Chapman, like the character in the movie, became a solid citizen of the little pueblo. Unlike the character in the movie, there's no historical evidence that Chapman could dance, however.
    jackclements

    A childhood memory

    I saw this movie when I was five years old and never heard of it again. All I could remember was the fellow dancing with a noose around his neck. Looked for it for years, then saw it, just in the past year, in a bin as a Rita Hayworth movie. Thanks to the generic title I recognized it right away. There won't be many comments on this one, as it's virtually unknown, but I've looked at it twice and it brings back a memory of a movie I loved so much as a child, though nothing came back to me except the mentioned dancing scene. It's offbeat, in terrific color and I think enjoyable . Did anybody ever hear of the dancer who played the title role again?
    amerquise

    That ain't technicolor!!!

    I found this movie in a dollar bin. That should have been my first warning. The movie has been "digitally remastered", leading to the technicolor being remastered right out of it. The box also claims that Frank Morgan is "of Mash TV series fame", in spite of the fact that he died decades before the TV series came out.

    I suppose seeing the dancing instructor dance in a noose is worth the price of admission, though. (That's not a spoiler-it's on the menu screen.) And I probably would have liked it when I was a kid, and could handle nonsensical situations leading to improbable tap dancing scenes. :)

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    • Trivia
      While this was the third feature film released in 3-strip Technicolor, it was, for a long time, thought to no longer exist in that form. Only incomplete 35mm negatives were known to survive, plus 16mm prints struck in the two-color Cinecolor process. However, in 2015, a complete 35mm nitrate Technicolor print was discovered, leading to a 2022 home video release on DVD and Blu-ray.
    • Crazy credits
      The following is included in the opening crew credits, in an era when color was still relatively unused in filming and Technicolor was becoming in vogue: "Designed in Color by Robert Edmond Jones"
    • Alternate versions
      Some prints of this film are not even in color, but in black-and-white, although the credits still say "Technicolor".
    • Soundtracks
      When You're Dancing the Waltz
      Music by Richard Rodgers

      Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

      Performed by Charles Collins (uncredited), Steffi Duna (uncredited) and chorus

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    • Release date
      • August 28, 1936 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Dancing Pirate
    • Filming locations
      • RKO-Pathé Studios - 9336 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Pioneer Pictures Corporation
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 23m(83 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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