This is a Spanish-Italian film, but many other nations are involved as well. The protagonist, Geoffrey Brooks, a corsair, actually fights all nations on his long adventurous course to freedom, he takes ships from both French and Portuguese, each time acquiring a better ship and letting the used one go down, and in all these many fights and battles with different established national marines, there are amazingly few off the corsairs who go down while all the French, Portuguese and others are pierced and thrown over board in masses. There are a few pretty ladies also involved in the story, Geoffrey Brooks loves two of them and is also sometimes betrayed, so the whole story is like a prehistoric James Bond intrigue at sea with no revolvers but plenty of swords, blunderbusses and cannons ripping ships apart, while the protagonist every now and then steals a kiss or a bed with one one of the ladies. The adventure is flamboyant with an impressing finale, the pirates using a religious festival to conquer an unassailable castle, but consistently superficial - the hero has no depth and only thinks of gold, although he ultimately allows himself to be convinced that freedom is better than money.
Review of Il corsaro
