Petticoat Pirates (1961)
Any movie with a title like Petticoat Pirates would be hard to dislike--and equally hard to believe. Anticipating the "feminist" films of the 1970s, the plot concerns a group of female officers in the British Navy. Angered by the sexism inherent in the Admiralty, the uniformed ladies stage a mutiny, taking a timorous male stoker as a sort of hostage. Not terribly credible to begin with, the film ultimately veers off into fantasy. Petticoat Pirates is both innocuous and inconsequential; you may have seen it, but chances are you don't remember it. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Charles Drake, Anne Heywood, (more)
- Director(s):
- David MacDonald
Synopsis of Petticoat Pirates
Any movie with a title like Petticoat Pirates would be hard to dislike--and equally hard to believe. Anticipating the "feminist" films of the 1970s, the plot concerns a group of female officers in the British Navy. Angered by the sexism inherent in the Admiralty, the uniformed ladies stage a mutiny, taking a timorous male stoker as a sort of hostage. Not terribly credible to begin with, the film ultimately veers off into fantasy. Petticoat Pirates is both innocuous and inconsequential; you may have seen it, but chances are you don't remember it. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Petticoat Pirates
- Charles Drake - Charlie
- Cecil Parker - C-in-C
- Maxine Audley - Superintendent
- Eleanor Summerfield - Mabel
- Lionel Murton - Admiral U.S.N.
- Kenneth Fortescue - Paul Turner
- Michael Ripper - Tug
- Murray Melvin - Kenneth
- Kim Tracy - Mess attendant
- Anne Heywood - Anne Stephens
- John Turner - Capt. Michael Patterson
- Thorley Walters - Lt. Jerome Robertson
- Victor Maddern - C.O.C. Nixon
- Barbara Hicks - P.T. Instructor
- Dilys Laye - Sue
- Anton Rodgers - Alec
- Diane Aubrey - Gunnery officer
- Director(s):
- David MacDonald
- Writer(s):
- Lew Schwartz, Charlie Drake, T.J. Morrison
- Producer(s):
- Gordon L.T. Scott
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