
Planning on sailing his schooner, the Laughing Lass, to his ancestors' treasure island in the South Seas, veteran seaman Obadiah Wolf makes his last payment on the vessel to Ellory Glendenning, a crook who hopes to cheat the old man out of the boat and then sell it to the government at an outrageous price. Learning that Obadiah has a treasure map tattooed on his chest, a pirate called "Bad-Eye" forces the old buccaneer to accompany him to the island.

James Oliver Curwood, Monte M. Katterjohn
United States

There are films you watch; then there are films that tattoo themselves on your retina, indelible as the sepia inked across Obadiah Wolf’s sternum. Paramount’s 1923 sleeper Such a Little Pirate belongs to the latter tribe. Shot on the cusp of the Jazz Age, when rum-runners still outran revenue cutters and flappers we...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

George Melford

George Melford
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" There are films you watch; then there are films that tattoo themselves on your retina, indelible as the sepia inked across Obadiah Wolf’s sternum. Paramount’s 1923 sleeper Such a Little Pirate belongs to the latter tribe. Shot on the cusp of the Jazz Age, when rum-runners still outran revenue cutters and flappers were learning that knees could be visible in public, this 63-minute reel is a celluloid time-capsule lacquered in brine, bravado, and a dash of proto-feminist moxie. A Schooner Name..."

