Petticoat Pirates

Petticoat Pirates

87 mins | Comedy | Nov. 1, 1961

Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts

Petticoat Pirates

87 mins | Comedy | Nov. 1, 1961

Petticoat Pirates
Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts. Hardly a feminist masterpiece, but fans will relish the nightmare court-martial in which Drake plays all the parts
Producers Associated British Picture Corporation
Original title Petticoat Pirates
Directors Gordon Gilbert, Doreen Dearnaley, Jeremy Summers, David MacDonald
Writers Lew Schwarz

Cast

Charlie Drake

as Charlie

Anne Heywood

as Chief Oficer Anne Stevens

Cecil Parker

as C-in-C

John Turner

as Lt. Michael Pattinson

Thorley Walters

as Captain Jerome Robertson

Maxine Audley

as Mary - Superintendent

Aleta Morrison

as Frog Girl

Murray Melvin

as Kenneth

Anton Rodgers

as Alec

Dilys Laye

as Sue

Eleanor Summerfield

as Chief Wren Mabel Rawlins

Victor Maddern

as CPO Nixon

Lionel Murton

as Admiral

Barbara Hicks

as P.T. Instructress

Kenneth Fortescue

as Paul Turner

Penny Newington

as Elizabeth

Angus Lennie

as George

Tony Hilton

as Pincher

Norman Chappell

as Johnson

James Milner

as Chips

Diane Aubrey

as Gunnery officer

Daphne Jonason

as Navigation Officer