Betty and the Buccaneers

Juliette Day is a young woman who reads too many Rafael Sabatini books and so has a romantic view of pirates. Her youth and naivete is further indicated by the fact that she wears a big white bow in her hair, despite the fact that Miss Day was 25 when she made this movie. Her father, Charles Marriott is an unworldly numismatist who thinks he has found a treasure map and hires an unsavory ship's captain with a crew of three roughnecks to take him to the the remote island where the treasure is buried. He sails off, leaving Miss Day with a parrot to fend for themselves. When they reach the island, the seamen clunk the professor on the head, head back to Miss Day and set up housekeeping and general threatening.

As you might expect from that synopsis, I was not terribly impressed by the movie with its obvious set-up and straightforward follow-through. Clearly the movie was intended for the juvenile audience, with its mildly twee screen titles which often addressed the audience directly, with "you" and "we." In a movie where most of the people seem to have to wait for the parrot to tell them what to do, one can not find much to admire.