An English captain and his crew are dispatched to the Spanish-controlled island of Tortuga, where famed privateer Henry Morgan has defected from his support of the English Empire and is ...
See full summary »
Jacob Tremblay, star of Good Boys, compares his family to an infamous reality TV show and picks an unusual Star Wars dream role.
User Lists
Related lists from IMDb users
Share this Rating
Title: Pirates of Tortuga (1961)
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.
Learn more
More Like This
Adventure
|
History
|
Romance
Director:
David Butler
Stars:
Rex Harrison,
Virginia Mayo,
George Sanders
Demetrius and the Gladiators
(1954)
Action
|
Drama
|
History
Director:
Delmer Daves
Stars:
Victor Mature,
Susan Hayward,
Michael Rennie
White Witch Doctor
(1953)
Certificate: Passed
Action
|
Adventure
|
Romance
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Stars:
Susan Hayward,
Robert Mitchum,
Walter Slezak
Anne of the Indies
(1951)
Action
|
Adventure
|
Drama
Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Stars:
Jean Peters,
Louis Jourdan,
Debra Paget
Destination Moon
(1950)
Adventure
|
Drama
|
Sci-Fi
Director:
Irving Pichel
Stars:
John Archer,
Warner Anderson,
Tom Powers
Soldier of Fortune
(1955)
Adventure
|
Crime
|
Drama
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Stars:
Clark Gable,
Susan Hayward,
Michael Rennie
North West Frontier
(1959)
Adventure
|
Drama
Director:
J. Lee Thompson
Stars:
Kenneth More,
Lauren Bacall,
Herbert Lom
Genghis Khan
(1965)
Adventure
|
Drama
|
History
Director:
Henry Levin
Stars:
Stephen Boyd,
Omar Sharif,
James Mason
The Lion
(1962)
Action
|
Adventure
|
Drama
Director:
Jack Cardiff
Stars:
William Holden,
Trevor Howard,
Capucine
Back to Bataan
(1945)
Drama
|
War
Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Stars:
John Wayne,
Anthony Quinn,
Beulah Bondi
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
(1944)
Certificate: Passed
Drama
|
History
|
War
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Stars:
Spencer Tracy,
Van Johnson,
Robert Walker
Edit
Cast
| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Ken Scott | ... | Bart Paxton | |
| Letícia Román | ... | Meg Graham | |
| Dave King | ... | Pee Wee | |
| John Richardson | ... | Percy | |
| Rafer Johnson | ... | John Gammel | |
| Robert Stephens | ... | Henry Morgan | |
 |
Rachel Stephens | ... | Phoebe |
| Stanley Adams | ... | Captain Montbars | |
| Edgar Barrier | ... | Sir Thomas Mollyford | |
|
|
James Forrest | ... | Reggie |
|
|
Patrick Sexton | ... | Randolph |
|
|
Arthur Gould-Porter | ... | Bonnett |
|
|
Hortense Petra | ... | Lola |
|
|
Malcolm Cassell | ... | Kipper |
Edit
Plot Summary
|
Add Synopsis
See All (10) »
Storyline
An English captain and his crew are dispatched to the Spanish-controlled island of Tortuga, where famed privateer Henry Morgan has defected from his support of the English Empire and is running a strictly piratical venture, stopping any and all vessels including English.
Plot Keywords:
homosexual subtext | male male relationship | bare chested male | manipulative female | possessive female |Genres:
AdventureParents Guide:
Add content advisory for parents »
Edit
See full technical specs »
Details
Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
October 1961 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
I pirati di Tortuga See more »Company Credits
Show more on
IMDbPro »
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
ColorAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
Edit
Did You Know?
Trivia
Average Shot Length (ASL) = 9.5 seconds See more »Goofs
At the start of the movie is a shot of Trafalgar Square with Admiralty Arch in the foreground and Nelson's Column in the middle. The movie is about pirates during the reign of Charles II (1660-1685). Trafalgar Square was named after the famous sea-battle in 1805 in which he died. The Arch was erected by order of king Edward VII and completed in 1912. Part of the text on it is visible: "(:ANNO:DECIMO:EDWARDI:SEPTIMI:REGIS: :VICTORIAE:REGINAE:CIVES:GRATISSIMI:MDCCCCX:)" See more »Frequently Asked Questions
This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.
Enjoy a night in with these popular movies available to stream now with Prime Video.
Oh my. 20th Century Fox must have burned with shame and embarrassment at this wretched turkey being released under their aegis. I enjoy almost all old movies, and up until viewing Pirates of Tortuga had never seen a film that was ALL bad, without any redeeming qualities or entertainment value at all ... but this is the one. Pirates is so very inept in every respect that it can't even be enjoyed as one of those "so bad it's good" pictures. The direction is almost non-existent, with scenes that drag on as is a first rehearsal had been filmed, and filmed before it had even been blocked. This plodding footage is interspersed with stock shots and, in cases, entire scenes lifted from earlier (and MUCH better) movies, and the inserts are glaringly obvious, particularly in the first battle at sea (thirty or so background extras listlessly waving swords at each other as if half asleep, never varying their position, suddenly interrupted by a genuinely action-packed insert from The Black Swan!). The cast is headed by lacklustre Ken Scott, who had lent his wooden presence to other Fox productions (his supporting role in Stopover Tokyo helping to sink that particular dud). John Richardson looks fabulous, but has no technique, looks somewhat lost, and after this film went back to virtual extra status until his breakthrough a few years later in She and One Million Years BC. Worst of all, in fact the worst performance I have ever seen by a leading lady in a studio production, comes from Leticia Roman, a pretty but spectacularly untalented Italian girl playing a cockney and spouting lines like "lord love a duck" and "you ain't ever treated me like a lay-dee" in a voice that's a cross between Monica Vitti and Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. I am in danger here of making Pirates of Tortuga sound like something worth sitting through in order to have a giggle, but believe me it is NOT!