The Boy and the Pirates
The Boy and the Pirates is a 1960 American adventure film directed by Bert I. Gordon, known as a master of giant monster films. It stars a popular child star Charles Herbert and Gordon's daughter Susan. The storyline concerns a boy and girl trapped on Blackbeard's pirate ship.
Plot
A boy named Jimmy Warren who lives along the Massachusetts coast is upset with the unfairness of modern life when his father scolds him about his school grades. He plays on a wrecked ship along the shore with a girl named Kathy. He picks up an odd brass jar and wishes to be back in the olden days on a pirate ship. When Jimmy utters "Where am I?," the magic jar pops open and a strange little man appears. He introduces himself as Abu the Genie and states that he has granted Jimmy his wish to be on a real pirate ship. Jimmy scoffs at the notion, but Abu insists that they are at that very moment passengers on Queen Anne's Revenge, the pirate ship of the notorious Blackbeard.
More details
author | Lillie Hayward |
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contentLocation | Massachusetts |
director | Bert Ira Gordon |
editor | Jerome Thoms |
events | sea piracy time travel |
genre | adventure fantasy |
keywords | blackbeard force last second modern life pirate ship present day queen anne\'s revenge |
musicBy | Albert Glasser |
producer | Bert I. Gordon |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | children's adventure time |