Corsair is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama written, produced and directed by Roland West.

The film is based on the 1931 novel Corsair, a Pirate in White Flannels[1] by Walton Green and takes place in and was shot during the era of Prohibition in the United States.

[3] College football hero John Hawks lets himself be goaded by wealthy socialite Alison Corning into forgoing a job coaching the college team to be "a real man, and make real money" in the big city with her father, Stephen Corning, on Wall Street.

Mr. Corning tells John he doesn't have what it takes to succeed in the brutal world of share trading.

He only forgot two things: that in the cutthroat world of junk bonds and margin calls, they don't use real knives, machine guns, and bombs, like the gangsters; and the girl hiding in the hold.