Pirates of Tortuga

Name: Pirates of Tortuga
Genre: Adventure
Duration: 1 h 37 min
Rating: 5.3
Cast: Ken Scott, Letícia Román, Dave King

19611961
Not RatedNot Rated
1h 37min

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 runn... Read allAn 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.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.

5.3/10

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Director
- Robert D. Webb
Writers
- Jesse Lasky Jr.(screenplay)
- Melvin Levy(screenplay)
- Pat Silver(screenplay)
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Pirates of Tortuga

Director
- Robert D. Webb
Writers
- Jesse Lasky Jr.(screenplay)
- Melvin Levy(screenplay) (story)
- Pat Silver(screenplay)
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Taglines
- One Ship and Half a Hundred Men to Stem a Pirate Tide!
Genre
- Adventure
Certificate
- Not Rated
Parents guide
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Trivia
Relies primarily upon grainy mismatched stock footage from The Black Swan (1942) and Anne of the Indies (1951) enlarged and cropped to wide screen CinemaScope ratio.

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:)"

Connections
Edited from Anne of the Indies (1951)

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B-grade pirate flick

I saw this film quite a few times growing up on independent TV stations. I didn't think it was anything too spectacular then, but hey, it was a pirate flick, and you can't go too wrong... right? Well, before the days of corporate run focus groups and test market screenings for films, the studio moguls, banking on what they believed would sell, would ride movie trends like the corporates do today. Back then Westerns and Pirate flicks were all the rage, and in 1961, hoping to revitalize a waning market, 20th Century Fox invested in this thing.

They must've done it on the cheap. Recycleing old studio props and sets, it looks like they cast bit part players in supporting roles. That and the cinematography is pretty bland, though not too far from b-movie standards at the time.

It's a market driven film. No standards or rules are being bent or pushed. There's a few social messages snuck in here and there, but nothing too shocking by contemporary American social standards.

There's nothing really innovative or impressive about this film, but it does offer two hours of pirate escapism. Take it for what it is.

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