The Buccaneers
About The Buccaneers
The gang builds a pirate ship. It sinks as soon as it is launched, and the boys blame Mary for being a girl. Captain Whelan lets her play pirate on his fishing boat, and the boys come aboard. The boat slips its moorings. They drift around the harbor until the U.S. Navy battleship California boards them.
Cast & crew
More about The Buccaneers
Robert F. McGowan directed the 23rd Our Gang short. Hal Roach produced it, and Pathé Exchange released it on 9 March 1924.
Themes
Making
McGowan put the children on a working fishing boat and then cut in the battleship California, rather than building a pirate ship that had to stay afloat.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The surviving picture runs 19 minutes 49 seconds.
- Mary Kornman plays Mary, Mickey Daniels plays Mickey, Joe Cobb plays Joe, Jackie Condon plays Jackie, Allen Hoskins plays Farina, and Ernie Morrison plays Sunshine Sammy.
- Allen Cavan plays Captain Whelan. Earl Mohan plays a naval officer. Martin Wolfkeil, billed as Tonnage, plays a fat sailor.
- Hal Roach had started the Our Gang series in 1922.
Scenes
- The homemade pirate ship sinks at the launch, and the boys turn on Mary.
- The battleship California comes alongside the drifting fishing boat.
Also available
- Internet Archive (TheBuccaneers)
