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18/02/1983 Comedy, Music, Romance, Adventure 1h 52m
60
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Overview

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at last over and he happily leaves the service of the pirates. When Frederic meets the beautiful Mabel, one of the many daughters (or wards in Chancery) of Major-General Stanley, they fall in love and decide to marry. However, complications arise when the pirates decide to marry the rest of the Major-General's daughters, themselves - and Frederic's birthdate turns out to be not all it seems.

  1. Wilford Leach

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Kevin Kline

    The Pirate King

  2. Angela Lansbury

    Ruth

  3. Linda Ronstadt

    Mabel

  4. George Rose

    Maj. Gen. Stanley

  5. Rex Smith

    Frederic

  6. Tony Azito

    Sergeant

  7. David Hatton

    Samuel

  8. Tim Bentinck

    Pirate

  9. Mike Grady

    Pirate

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-06-08
We start off as a band of pirates approach the town, and the citizens all rush to seek shelter in buildings that are clearly made of canvas and greasepaint... I found that to be quite an useful introduction to this film version of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1870s operetta; it made it clear that this was going to be a stage version on film, rather than any attempt to recreate the story for the cinema. Expectations suitably set - it goes off on a pretty enjoyable romp through this (mixed with one or two other of their works) story of the young "Frederic" (Rex Smith) who has been doing a sort of yout...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$694,497.00

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