The Pirate
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Time Out says
A dazzling Caribbean cod-swashbuckler of a musical, with acting as its very theme and the imaginative projection of illusionism its self-referential life-blood. Strolling player (Kelly) woos sheltered but romantic girl (Garland) in the guise of the notorious pirate Macoco, while her dull fiancé (Slezak) desperately hangs on to his own concealed identity. Cole Porter songs, a choreographed camera, vivacious performances, and Minnelli's customarily camp colour scheme and decor are wonderfully seductive vehicles for the themes that run obsessively through almost all the director's films, be they musicals, comedies or melodramas.Author: PT
Release details
UK release:
1948
Duration:
102 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
George Zucco, Reginald Owen, Gladys Cooper, Walter Slezak, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, the Nicholas Brothers
Songs:
Art Director:
Jack Martin Smith, Cedric Gibbons
Editor:
Cinematography:
Screenwriter:
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
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