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    Petticoat Pirates (1961)

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    TV comic Charlie Drake again finds himself up a well-known creek without a script in his third tilt at movie stardom.

    This time, however, he’s only got himself to blame, as he co-wrote this woeful comedy, in which he plays a timid stoker who disguises himself as a member of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS; popularly and officially known as the Wrens) in order to recover a frigate hijacked by a mutinous all-woman crew.

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    The company of 150 Wrens led by spirited Chief Officer Anne Stevens (Anne Heywood) have set out to prove equality with their male counterparts by taking over HMS Huntress with breathtaking efficiency, sailing it out to sea and into a NATO naval exercise.

    Director David MacDonald had made some pretty ropey pictures since his debut in 1937 with Riding High, but this was rock bottom.

    Spare a thought for Cecil Parker, who somehow allowed himself to be talked into co-starring.

    Stoker Charlie Drake
    Charlie Drake
    Chief Officer Anne Stevens
    Anne Heywood
    Commander in Chief
    Cecil Parker
    Lieutenant Michael Pattinson
    John Turner
    Mary (Superintendent)
    Maxine Audley
    Captain Jerome Robertson
    Thorley Walters
    Chief Wren Mabel Rawlins
    Eleanor Summerfield
    COC Nixon
    Victor Maddern
    US Navy admiral
    Lionel Murton
    Physical training instructor
    Barbara Hicks
    Sue
    Dilys Laye
    Elizabeth
    Penny Newington

    Director
    David Macdonald

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