Frederic quickly falls for Mabel and proposes marriage, but local custom requires the elder sisters to marry first. In a reversal of roles, Mabel is a confident, assertive, and courageous young woman, while her sisters are prim, proper and conservative. Frederic swears to avenge their deaths and is forced off of the ship on a small boat.Īdrift, Frederic spies Mabel and her older sisters on a nearby island and swims to shore to greet them. Frederic refuses an invitation from the Pirate King, his adoptive father, to become a full pirate, as his birth parents were murdered by their contemporaries. In this fantasy sequence, the swordplay instructor is now named Frederic, a young apprentice of the Pirates of Penzance, celebrating his 21st birthday on a pirate vessel. She subsequently dreams an adventure that takes place a century before. A sudden storm throws her overboard, and she washes up on a beach. She is duped by her exchange family sisters, Edith, Kate and Isabel, into missing the launch, so she rents a small sailboat to give chase. She attends a local pirate festival featuring a swordplay demonstration led by a young curly-haired instructor and fellow American, who then invites her for a ride on his boat. Mabel Stanley is an introverted and bookish teenage girl from the United States in a seaside community in Australia as an exchange student. It has developed a cult following following home media release and TV airings. The film performed far below expectations in initial release and is generally reviewed very poorly, but fared far more positively with audiences. Loosely based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, the original music score is composed by Mike Brady and Peter Sullivan (no relation to Pirates of Penzance composer Arthur Sullivan). The Pirate Movie is a 1982 Australian musical romantic comedy film directed by Ken Annakin, and starring Christopher Atkins and Kristy McNichol.

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