Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
1h 17m | PG-13
A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.
Director: Frederick de Cordova
Studio: Universal International Pictures
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Action, Romance
Video: 720p
Cast
Yvonne De Carlo
as Deborah McCoy
Philip Friend
as Frederic Baptiste (aka Capt. Robert Kingston)
Robert Douglas
as Alexander Narbonne
Elsa Lanchester
as Madame Brizar
Andrea King
as Arlene Villon
Norman Lloyd
as Patout
Reviews
Very much a vehicle for Yvonne de Carlo, this - and though not terrible, it is still a fairly unremarkable seafaring adventure with far too much singing... Philip Friend is a man with a double life - a sort of maritime "Zorro" who leads a respectable enough life by day but is arch pirate "Baptiste" by night. De Carlo is "Deborah" a Louisiana crooner who falls for him and, despite his existing liaison with "Arlene Villon" (Andrea King) sets out to get her man. There are a couple of fun interventions from Elsa Lanchester and Henry Daniell, but the film really belongs to the ever evil Robert Douglas as ruthless rival "Narbonne" who learns of our secret and sets out to ruin "Baptiste". It's got plenty of cannon-fire, pirate attacks and duels - but is still a poor relation of many of these feisty gal meets sea rogue stories. If you like the genre - and I do - then it passes 80 minutes in colourful, if unoriginal, style.