The Off-Shore Pirate

{{short description|1921 film by Dallas M. Fitzgerald}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{infobox film | name = The Off-Shore Pirate | image = Off Shore Pirate 1921.jpg | caption = Theatrical one-sheet release poster | director = Dallas Fitzgerald<br>Albert H. Kelley (assistant director) | writer = Waldemar Young (scenario) | based_on = {{based on|"The Offshore Pirate"|F. Scott Fitzgerald}} | starring = Viola Dana <br>Jack Mulhall | music = | cinematography = John Arnold<br>Lieutenant Joseph Waddell (additional photography) | editing = | studio = Metro Pictures | distributor = Metro Pictures | released = {{Film date|1921|01|31|U.S.}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}

thumb|150px|ad for film '''''The Off-Shore Pirate''''' is a 1921 American silent romantic comedy film produced and released by Metro Pictures and directed by Dallas Fitzgerald. The film was based on the short story "The Offshore Pirate" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, of no relation to the director, that was published in ''The Saturday Evening Post''. Viola Dana and Jack Mulhall star in the film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11051|title=Detail view of Movies Page|website=Afi.com|accessdate=October 30, 2017}}</ref><ref name="SilentEra">{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/O/OffShorePirate1921.html|title=Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List|website=Silentera.com|accessdate=October 30, 2017}}</ref>

==Plot== As summarized in a film publication,<ref name="FilmDaily">{{cite journal |title=The Offshore Pirate: Pleasing, Clean Comedy Offering But Needs Cutting |journal=Film Daily |volume=15 |issue=41 |page=17 |publisher=Wyd's Films and Film Folks, Inc. |location=New York City |date=February 13, 1921 |url=https://archive.org/details/filmdailyvolume11516newy |accessdate=March 11, 2014}}</ref> Ardita Farnam (Dana), wealthy and beautiful, had a will of her own and a yacht. When her uncle (Jobson) indicated that he wanted her to meet a certain man, she decided that she wanted to marry a foreigner, saying she wanted a man with a past rather than a future. Alone on her yacht one evening Ardita heard some jazz melodies floating over the waves. A good-looking man (Mulhall) along with six black musicians came aboard. They tell Ardita that they have been giving a charity performance that afternoon and at the end had relieved the audience of their valuables, and now intended to use the yacht to escape. They go out to sea. Later the leader, who calls himself Curtis Caryle, is put off the yacht. Ardita feels sorry for him and follows him. Then her uncle arrives. The man explains that he is Toby Moreland, the man her uncle wanted her to meet. She says that she knew it all along and decides to marry him.

==Cast== *Viola Dana as Ardita Farnam *Jack Mulhall as Toby Moreland *Edward Jobson as Uncle John Farnam *Edward Cecil as Ivan Nevkova

==Preservation== It is not known whether the film currently survives.<ref name="SilentEra"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7927/default.html |title=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''The Moral Law'' |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=October 30, 2017 |archive-date=March 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012446/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7927/default.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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==External links== {{commons category|The Off-Shore Pirate}} *{{IMDb title|0012516}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Off-Shore Pirate, The}} Category:1921 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Metro Pictures films Category:Films based on American short stories Category:1921 romantic comedy films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Dallas M. Fitzgerald Category:Films based on works by F. Scott Fitzgerald Category:1921 American films Category:American silent romantic comedy films Category:1921 English-language films Category:English-language romantic comedy films