Pirates of Blood River
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| Pirates of Blood River | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Gilling |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Written by | Jimmy Sangster (screenplay) |
| Starring | Christopher Lee Kerwin Matthews Glenn Corbett Oliver Reed |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1962 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Pirates of Blood River is a 1962 Hammer Film Productions pirate film starring Christopher Lee and Kerwin Matthews.
While in a penal colony, Huguenot Jonathan Standish (Kerwin Matthews) is captured by pirates led by Capt. LaRoche (Christopher Lee) who force him to lead them back to his home village to retrieve a treasure supposedly hidden there.
This landlocked pirate movie features Michael Ripper, Andrew Keir, Oliver Reed, Peter Arne and Glenn Corbett. The female lead is Marla Landi. The pirates seem vaguely French because of a few of their names (LaRoche, Brocaire) but some are called Mack and Hench. The villagers appear to be a mix of Americans and Britons.
[edit] Trivia
- Christopher Lee played in another pirate film, The Devil-Ship Pirates, in 1964.
- Marla Landi appeared as Cecile Stapleton in Hammer Film Productions' The Hound of the Baskervilles, which also starred Christopher Lee.
