Such a Little Pirate
{{Short description|1918 film by George Melford}}
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{{Infobox film
|name = Such a Little Pirate
|image = Such a Little Pirate poster.jpg
|caption = Film poster
|director = George Melford
Claude Mitchell(assistant director)
|producer = Famous Players–Lasky
|writer = Monte Katterjohn
|based_on = {{based on|Peggy the Pirate|James Oliver Curwood}}
|starring = Lila Lee
Theodore Roberts
Harrison Ford
|cinematography = Paul Perry
|distributor = Paramount Pictures
|released = {{Film date|1918|10|6}}
|runtime = 50 minutes
|country = United States
|language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Such a Little Pirate is a lost[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9609/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Such a Little Pirate] Library of Congress Retrieved November 18, 2022. 1918 American silent Pirate adventure film directed by George Melford and starring Lila Lee as a young sea-going heroine and Theodore Roberts as her grandfather. It was produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky.[https://silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/SuchALittlePirate1918.html Progressive Silent Film List: Such a Little Pirate] at silentera.com. Retrieved November 18, 2022.[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/15195 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Such a Little Pirate] AFI Catalog of Feature Films Retrieved November 18, 2022.
Cast
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- Lila Lee as Patricia Wolf
- Theodore Roberts as Obadiah Wolf
- Harrison Ford as Rory O'Malley
- Guy Oliver as Bad-Eye
- Forrest Seabury as Ellory Glendenning
- J. Parks Jones as Harold Glendenning
- Adele Farrington as Mrs. Glendenning
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Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80% based on 5 reviews, with an average rating of 0/10.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/such_a_little_pirate|title=Such a Little Pirate|website=Rotten Tomatoes|publisher=Fandango|access-date=November 18, 2022}}
Joshua Lowe of Variety called Such a Little Pirate "a clean, wholesome, simple, straight-away tale".{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Var52-1918-10/page/n23/mode/2up|title=Such a Little Pirate|last=Lowe|first=Joshua|magazine=Variety|date=October 1918|page=23}}
The New York Times praised Theodore Roberts for his role as Obadiah Wolf, writing that the film "gains its chief merit".{{cite news|title=Theda Bara Films Orient in 'Salome'; Norms Talmadge Acts a Mother and Daughter in "The Forbidden City." 'Kingdom of Youth' Shown Madge Kennedy Is Queen, Tom Moore King There--Y.M.C.A. Films at the Broadway|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1918/10/07/archives/theda-bara-films-orient-in-salome-norms-talmadge-acts-a-mother-and.html|date=October 7, 1918}}
References
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External links
{{commons category|Such a Little Pirate}}
- {{IMDb title|0009666}}
- [https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/sayre/id/13812 A scene in the film]
- [https://classicfilmaficionados.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/reading_times_fri__jan_31__1919_1.jpg Newspaper advert of the film]
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Category:American silent feature films
Category:Films directed by George Melford
Category:Films based on short fiction
Category:Lost American adventure films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American adventure films
Category:Films based on works by James Oliver Curwood
Category:1910s English-language films
Category:English-language adventure films
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