A stockbroker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.A stockbroker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.A stockbroker plans to liven up his boring life by taking up piracy on the high seas.
Thelma Todd
- Alison Corning
- (as Alison Loyd)
Gay Seabrook
- Susie Grenoble
- (as Gay Seabrooke)
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- TriviaFinal film of director Roland West. He took a few years off from the industry and planned to return in the late 1930s, but in 1935 his girlfriend, Thelma Todd, was murdered in a restaurant/nightclub that she and West owned in Santa Monica, CA. He vowed never to return to Hollywood, and for the remainder of his life (he died in 1952) he never did.
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Alison Corning: I'll smartin' him up - Stevie.
Stephen Corning: Will you please stop calling me Stevie! I'm your father.
Alison Corning: Well, don't blame me.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Poirot: The King of Clubs (1989)
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A different kind of piracy
After being told that he hasn't the right stuff for making it on Wall Street, former All American Football player Chester Morris goes in for a different kind of piracy. He decides to become a real pirate and beat the man who told him he was no good on the street Emmet Corrigan at his own game.
Which in addition to Wall Street stock manipulations is bootlegging. Corrigan's role is eerily like that of Joseph P. Kennedy. Only this Wall Street pirate and bootlegger has a daughter played by Thelma Todd a rather spoiled young lady used to getting exactly what she wants.
Todd's the main problem, she gives a spiritless and perfunctory performance, so atypical of her. She has absolutely no chemistry. As for Morris he gets a bit too self righteous.
On the plus side when the hijacking of bootleggers like Fred Kohler gets going Corsair gets a bit of life pumped into it. Frank McHugh plays a part he would repeat over and over at Warner Brothers as the hero's best friend and sets the mold here. Kohler is one nasty customer as the bootlegger Morris robs.
Corsair is an interesting, but in some stages rather lifeless film.
Which in addition to Wall Street stock manipulations is bootlegging. Corrigan's role is eerily like that of Joseph P. Kennedy. Only this Wall Street pirate and bootlegger has a daughter played by Thelma Todd a rather spoiled young lady used to getting exactly what she wants.
Todd's the main problem, she gives a spiritless and perfunctory performance, so atypical of her. She has absolutely no chemistry. As for Morris he gets a bit too self righteous.
On the plus side when the hijacking of bootleggers like Fred Kohler gets going Corsair gets a bit of life pumped into it. Frank McHugh plays a part he would repeat over and over at Warner Brothers as the hero's best friend and sets the mold here. Kohler is one nasty customer as the bootlegger Morris robs.
Corsair is an interesting, but in some stages rather lifeless film.
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- Jun 8, 2014
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