Terry and the Pirates
by James W. Horne
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Actor: Allen Jung, Jeff York, Joyce Bryant, Victor DeCamp, William TracyDirector: James W. Horne
Cinematographer: James S. Brown Jr.
Editor: Dwight Caldwell
Producer: Larry Darmour
Writer: George Morgan
Writer: Joseph Levering
Writer: Mark Layton
Writer: Milton Caniff
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 270 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Vci Video
Movie Reviews of Terry and the Pirates
Movie Review: Mickey Rooney and the Pirates
Summary: 2 Stars
I expected that Terry would be the hero. Imagine my disappointment when Terry turned out to look and act like Mickey Rooney. The actual hero is his friend and assistant Pat Ryan. Ryan is played by the tall and very handsome Jeff York (aka Owen Granville) who strides through the "jungle" in a true serial-style swashbuckling manner while Terry acts like a movie sidekick. The action takes place in a jungle called "Wingpoo." Wingpoo sometimes looks like a California canyon and sometimes like my mother's backyard in Connecticut. To add realism, stock footage of herds of running animals is added. The footage never matches anything else. There is an exploding volcano which looks rather like a chocolate lava cake. The archvillain tells his henchmen that they had better go about in disguise. So they don what look like striped beach robes and put leopard spotted pillowcases over their heads. No sense of fashion. You would think that the bulky robes would catch on the jungle vegetation. But there is little vegetation where the action takes place (where it looks like mom's yard). The Asian villains have villas in the Wingpoo jungle. They are furnished with 1940s-style chinoiserie. I think it's odd that Asians would decorate their surroundings with stereotypical and demeaning silly fat little "Chinese" ceramic figures and lamps. The fights are often deliberately(sometimes not so deliberately)funny. A villain comes through a doorway at the start of a fight and falls down for no discernible reason, etc. Oh, well. As someone in the film says, "The natives are behaving oddly." I like serials. But this one hasn't got much to recommend it. For a better treatment of the Terry and the Pirates characters, I recommend the old TV series available on DVD. "Mickey Rooney" plays the sidekick in that series. Better casting.
Summary of Terry and the Pirates
Of all the early radio shows adopted from the classic newspaper comic pages in the '30s and '40s, none was more intriguing or exciting than the action-packed tales of Terry and the Pirates. Columbia Pictures brought Terry and the Pirates to the screen in fifteen thrill-packed episodes in 1940 featuring an excellent cast of screen favorites. Directed in a style that combined action and considerable comedy, director James W. Horne led the cast in an adventure that centered around the discovery of a vast hidden treasure. Along the treacherous 15-episode route we have contacts with mysterious "Tiger Men," a savage gorilla, exploding ammunition sheds and countless other thrills that totally captivated Saturday matinee audiences week after week. Bonus Features: Chapter Selection Menu| VCI Serial Promo| Actor Bios|Bonus Episode # 1 from the 1952 TV Series TERRY AND THE PIRATES, starring John Baer and guest star Keye Luke. Specs: DVD9 + DVD5; 270 minutes; B&W; 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio; MPAA - NR; Year - 1940; SRP - $19.99.Action & Adventure DVD Video
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