Shiver My Timbers

Shiver My Timbers is a 1931 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 109th Our Gang short to be released.

Plot

A loud sea captain 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 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 is also 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.

Cast

The Gang

Sherwood Bailey as Spud
Matthew Beard as Stymie
Dorothy DeBorba as Dorothy
Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer
George Ernest as Georgie
Jerry Tucker as Jerry
Pete the Pup as himself

Additional cast

Carlena Beard as Stymie's sister
Harry Bernard as Cook
Dick Gilbert as Dick, one of the crew
Billy Gilbert as The sea captain
Jack Hill as One of the crew
June Marlowe as Miss Crabtree
Charles Oelze as Crew member with funny glasses
Cy Slocum as Cy, one of the crew

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!"