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Plot

Any movie with a title like Petticoat Pirates would be hard to dislike--and equally hard to believe. Anticipating the "feminist" films of the 1970s, the plot concerns a group of female officers in the British Navy. Angered by the sexism inherent in the Admiralty, the uniformed ladies stage a mutiny, taking a timorous male stoker as a sort of hostage. Not terribly credible to begin with, the film ultimately veers off into fantasy. Petticoat Pirates is both innocuous and inconsequential; you may have seen it, but chances are you don't remember it.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Action
Run Time:
87min.
Distributor(s):
Pathé Films, Warner Brothers, Path? Films
Director(s):
David MacDonald
Starring:
Charles Drake , Anne Heywood , Cecil Parker , John Turner , Maxine Audley
Themes:
Military Life
Tone:
Angry,Fanciful,Quirky
Keywords:
British,Navy,battle-of-the-sexes,capture,crew,military,sexism,storm,warship,woman
Language:
English