Un capitán de quince años (1974)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Jesus Franco

Writers:

José Antonio Arévalo (writer)
Gonzalo Cañas (writer)

Release Date:

8 July 1974 (Spain)

Genre:

Action | Adventure

Plot:

Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain...

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Based On Novel

Cast

José Manuel Marcos	...	Dick Sand
Edmund Purdom	...	Admiral Marlowe
Marc Cassot	...	Captain Hull
Doris Thomas	...	Clara
Howard Vernon	...	Korda
Armand Mestral	...	Harris
William Berger	...	Negoro
Fernando Bilbao
Sergio Mendizábal
Luis Barboo
Alberto Dalbés	...	Vargas
Marisol Delgado	...	Clara's maid
Gonzalo Cañas

Also Known As:

Fifteen Year Old Captain (International: English title)
Un capitaine de quinze ans (France)

Runtime:

France:88 min | Spain:84 min

Country:

France | Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

Movie Connections:

Version of Kapitan 'Piligrima' (1986)

Jules Verne and slavery...

"Un capitaine de quinze ans" is an obscure Jules Verne's book which I read when I was about 14 and which I liked very much.An adventure yarn,it displayed Verne's disgust for slavery .

It is an eventful story ;its best moment is when the hero and his mates discover they are not in America but in Africa .

If Luis Bunuel was probably the best Spanish director ever,Jesus Franco won the "Spanish Worst" award hands down.He completely butchered Verne's novel,but one must precise it's not entirely his fault.Such a film demands a big budget ,as successful adaptations as "20,000 leagues under the sea" and "journey to the center of the earth" show.

Here the jungle looks like a public park,the hero is chewing gum ,and when they go whaling,well...The characters are uninteresting,the hero is completely bland and the villains ...well,read the book instead.