A Submarine Pirate Movie

A Submarine Pirate
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Run Time: min
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Released: 1915
Directors: Sidney Chaplin
Charles Avery
Genre/Type: Comedy
Adventure Comedy
Parody/Spoof
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Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Hoping to cash in on the popularity of his former employee Charlie Chaplin, producer Mack Sennett hired Charlie's half-brother Sydney Chaplin, an excellent farceur in his own right, to star in series of Keystone comedies. Syd's best-remembered effort from this era was the 4-reel "special" A Submarine Pirate, a spoof of contemporary war melodramas. Cast in his familiar "Gussle" characterization (wing-tipped moustache, baggy pants and all), Chaplin plays a clumsy waiter who happens to overhear a band of pirates who plan to seize control of a submarine. Armed primarily with kitchen utensils and an excess of nerve, our hero boards the captured sub, rounds up the villains, and blows up the vessel, all in record time. Sydney Chaplin served as co-director of A Submarine Pirate, while future director Wesley Ruggles essayed a supporting role.

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An inventor and his accomplice plan to rob a ship carrying gold bullion by using a submarine. A waiter overhears their plans, buys himself an admiral's uniform, tricks his way into command of the sub and plots to take the ship himself. | ad...
That is the germ is a really great idea! I can't see the navy of any nation taking one of their submarines off the line for pirate duty, but I can see a real opportunity for an entrepreneur to purchase an obsolete submarine and hire a mer...
The best thing would be a team of SEALS, a stun grenade around midnight and mass confusion while the seals systematically eliminate the pirates. Job done and of story!

Cast

Actors Character Born
Glen Cavender Sep 19, 1883 in Tucson, AZ
Virginia Fox
Sidney Chaplin Mar 17, 1885 in Johannesburg, South Africa
Charles "Heinie" Conklin
Edgar Kennedy Apr 26, 1890 in Monterey, CA
Wesley Ruggles
Phyllis Allen Nov 25, 1861 in Staten Island, NY

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