The Princess and the Pirate

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The Princess and the Pirate is a 1944 Technicolor comedy-adventure film starring Bob Hope and Virginia Mayo that parodies swashbuckling pirate tales with slapstick humor and romantic escapades.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Technicolor film
film
basedOn story by Sy Bartlett
cinematographyBy George Barnes NERFINISHED
colorProcess Technicolor
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director David Butler NERFINISHED
distributedIn theatrical release
distributor RKO Radio Pictures
editedBy Daniel Mandell NERFINISHED
featuresCharacterType pirates
princess
genre adventure
comedy
hasAspect swashbuckling adventure parody
hasFilmFormat 35 mm
hasNotableElement comic take on pirate genre
romantic comedy elements
hasTheme romantic escapades
leadActorRole Bob Hope as Sylvester the Great NERFINISHED
Virginia Mayo as Princess Margaret NERFINISHED
musicBy Victor Young NERFINISHED
narrativeStyle parody of swashbuckler films
originalLanguage English
partOfEra Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED
producer Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED
productionCompany Samuel Goldwyn Productions NERFINISHED
releaseYear 1944
runtimeMinutes 94
screenwriter Don Hartman NERFINISHED
Ken Englund NERFINISHED
setIn Caribbean Sea NERFINISHED
starring Bob Hope NERFINISHED
Hugo Haas NERFINISHED
Marc Lawrence NERFINISHED
Victor McLaglen NERFINISHED
Virginia Mayo NERFINISHED
Walter Brennan NERFINISHED
Walter Slezak NERFINISHED
usesHumorStyle slapstick

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