Shiver My Timbers
7.6 /10 1 Votes7.6
Duration Country United States | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Short, Family, Comedy Film series Our Gang Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Writer H.M. Walker (dialogue) Release date October 10, 1931 (1931-10-10) Cast Similar movies Our Gang movies |
Shiver My Timbers is a 1931 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 109th (21st talking) Our Gang short that was released.
Contents
Plot
A loud sea captain (Billy Gilbert) tells violent stories about adventures out on the sea as pirates. The gang is playing hookey from school in order to hear his stories. Miss Crabtree (June Marlowe) finds where they are and decides to team up with the sea captain to teach the kids a lesson and scare them from ever wanting to be pirates.
The sea captain invites the gang back that night to become pirates. When they board the ship, the sea captain puts on a show and scares the kids. He acts mean and pretends to be sending other pirates overboard. Miss Crabtree even is there and pretending that she would be next to walk the plank. The gang then decides they want to go back to school and take the sea captain seriously.
However, during a staged "raid" on their ship, the children turn the tables on the crewmen.
The Gang
Additional cast
Memorable quote
According to Leonard Maltin, one of the most memorable lines in the history of the movies was spoken in this short. Gilbert has called two of his crew over for mock abuse to scare the kids. He bellows at Harry Bernard, "What are you two doing over there?" Bernard answers, "We don't know!"
References
Shiver My Timbers WikipediaShiver My Timbers IMDb Shiver My Timbers themoviedb.org