Dancing Pirate

Dancing Pirate

83 mins | Comedy, Adventure, Music | May 22, 1936

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

Dancing Pirate

83 mins | Comedy, Adventure, Music | May 22, 1936

Dancing Pirate
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.
IMDb rating 5.2
Producers Pioneer Pictures Corporation
Original title Dancing Pirate
Directors Lloyd Corrigan
Writers Emma-Lindsay Squier, Jack Wagner, Ray Harris, Boris Ingster, Lloyd Corrigan, Francis Edward Faragoh

Cast

Charles Collins

as Jonathan Pride

Frank Morgan

as Mayor Don Emilio Perena

Steffi Duna

as Serafina Perena

Luis Alberni

as Pamfilo (the Jailer)

Victor Varconi

as Don Balthazar (Monterey Captain of the Guards)

Rita Hayworth

as Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

Jack La Rue

as Lt. Chago (Baltazar's Aide)

Alma Real

as Blanca (Serafina's Maid)

William V. Mong

as Tecolote (Old Indian)

Mitchell Lewis

as Pirate Chief

Julian Rivero

as Shepherd

John Eberts

as Mozo

Eduardo Cansino Jr.

as Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

Nora Cecil

as Landlady (uncredited)

Jim Farley

as Sailor (uncredited)

Cy Kendall

as Bouncing Betty's Cook (uncredited)

Vera Lewis

as Orville's Mother (uncredited)

Ellen Lowe

as Miss Ponsonby (uncredited)

Pat Nixon

as Dance-Class Student (uncredited)

Marjorie Reynolds

as Dancer (uncredited)

Max Wagner

as Pirate (uncredited)

Harold Waldridge

as Orville (uncredited)