Corsaro nero, Il (1971)

Director:

Lorenzo Gicca Palli

Writers:

Lorenzo Gicca Palli (story)
George Martin (screenplay)

Release Date:

12 March 1971 (Italy)

Genre:

Comedy | Action | Adventure

Plot:

Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one...

Plot Keywords:

Pirate | Gold | Ocean | Plot | Prisoner

Cast

Terence Hill	...	Blackie
Silvia Monti	...	Isabel de Mendoza y Laguna
George Martin	...	Don Pedro
Diana Lorys	...	Manuela
Mónica Randall	...	Carmen
Sal Borgese	...	Martin
Pasquale Basile	...	Stiller (as Pat Basil)
Fernando Bilbao	...	Moko (as Ferdinando Bilbao)
Bud Spencer	...	Skull
Aldo Cecconi
Paolo Magalotti
Gustavo Re	...	Montbarque
Luciano Pigozzi		(as Alan Collins)
Carlo Reali	...	De Lussac
Edmund Purdom	...	The Viceroy

Also Known As:

Blackie the Pirate (USA)
Blackie, the Pirate (Philippines: English title)
Corsario Negro, El (Spain)
The Black Pirate (UK)

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

Spain | Italy

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:PG (re-rating) (1986) | UK:A (original rating) | Finland:K-12 | Norway:12 (1973) | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Incir De Paolis, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

ABC Cinematográfica

Soundtrack:

Orza qui, poggia li

Hill&Spencer as buccaneers!

To me,this is the paragon for the swashbucklers.This is how to do a swashbuckler."Blackie the Pirate" sets a standard for the genre.It gives a concrete idea on how such a movie ought to be.Very picturesque,and visually pleasing,"Blackie ..." has everything that I request from a movie of this kind:humor,fun,a handsome lead (T. Hill),good cast (George Martin,Bud Spencer) ,fluency,attractive music,sexy women (Silvia Monti,Mónica Randall,Diana Lorys),a film made by men who think and have a powerful sense of epic.These Italians used to had an incredible sens of fun. Horrors,westerns,Peplums,crime movies,SF,swashbucklers,WW 2 movies,comedy,sex drama,etc.,they hit the nail on the head.The French failed lamentably to take over all these "commercial" genres,but the Italians hit it.(It is true that I know a few outstanding French genre movies;but,with the Italians,outstanding is the rule.)And they were able to bring in Gemma,Nero,Hill,etc..To me,the Italian cinema is a source of inexhaustible pleasure.The Italians are for the fun what the French are for the novels,or the Germans for the music.They have the skill for doing EVERYTHING right.So,this Italian swashbuckler,"Blackie ...",IS a swashbuckler.

The two Italian actors have a lot of fun in this movie.(But "Blackie ..." is not a buddy film,as Spencer got only a bit part,though an excellent one.)The cast is very good.The girls were some 25-30 years when they appeared in Corsaro Nero.

A movie made out of love for fun.(A bluff like the Granger "Scaramouche" can not bear comparison with "Blackie ...".That "Scaramouche" can not pretend to be "a different kind" of movie;it is only a banal and stupid movie,lacking any charm.)

Gicca Palli did not make many movies.