Clothes Make the Pirate

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Clothes Make the Pirate
Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Produced by Sam E. Rork Productions
Written by Marion Fairfax
Holman Francis Day (novel)
Starring Leon Errol
Dorothy Gish
Nita Naldi
Tully Marshall
Cinematography Henry Cronjager
Louis Dunmyre
Editing by Patricia Rooney
Distributed by First National Pictures
Release date(s) 29 November 1925
Running time 90 minutes
Country Flag of the United States United States
Language Silent film
English intertitles
IMDb profile

Clothes Make the Pirate is a 1925 silent film starring Leon Errol and Dorothy Gish. The 90-minute silent adventure movie was written by Marion Fairfax from the novel by Holman Francis Day and directed by Maurice Tourneur.

It is essentially a comedy: burlesque, farce; which centers around a disgruntled 18th Century Bostonian, played by Errol, who while wishing that he was a pirate: donning the clothes, play-acting the part; is mistaken for a real-life pirate: Dixie Bull, played by Walter Law; whom Errol, of course, bumps into later on in the movie.

More a portent: Pink Panther style; Errol "slays" the villain and puts his foot upon his head: Marshall Mathers style (chest is it) ? This being more than enough, he of course, heads back home to his unappreciated wife: Dorothy Gish, reviewers of the time claimed to have been miscast; presumably to make big about his little, aka: his Bob Hope or Lou Costello style cowardice.

There wasn't a very good write-up at the time by Variety Magazine, which said that the children would like it, but not so in the Los Angeles Times of 10 Jan 1926 or in other newspapers of the time which generally gave it a good review for a satire movie.

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