The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! passenger Charles Darwin. Darwin recognises the crew's pet Polly as the last living dodo, and recommends they enter it in the Scientist of the Year competition at the Royal Society of London for a valuable prize. Secretly, Darwin plans on stealing Polly himself with the help of his trained chimpanzee, Mr. Bobo, as to impress his love interest Queen Victoria. The pirates disguise themselves as scientists to enter the competition, and the dodo display wins the top prize, which turns out to be minuscule trinkets and a meeting with the Queen. The Pirate Captain hides Polly before the meeting. There,
The Beautiful Adventure (1942 film) The Beautiful Adventure (1942 film) The Beautiful Adventure (French: La Belle aventure) is a 1942 French romantic comedy film directed by Marc Allégret and starring Claude Dauphin, Micheline Presle and Louis Jourdan. It is based on a play by Gaston Arman de Caillavet, Robert de Flers and Étienne Rey. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul Bertrand. On her wedding day, a young brie takes off with her cousin, whom she has always been in love with. The film was shot in September–October 1942 in Nice. However it was not released until after the Liberation of France