The infamous Hammer studios pirate movie without any pirate ships in it. This is not entirely true, there is one matte painting of a pirate ship in the middle of the film. However The Pirates of Blood River is set entirely on land for the most part except for the appropriately named blood river scenes since the river is full of piranha.
This pirate film was written by Hammer's legendary screenwriter Jimmy Sangster who reinvented Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy for Hammer. Told to put together a film about pirates on the cheap, Sangster took an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach to this film. The film's got Huguenots, French pirates, hidden treasure and busty babes.
The film also has a kitchen sink cast as well. Kerwin Matthews from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Glenn Corbett costar of John Wayne films like Chisum and Big Jake and Hammer's go to guy Christopher Lee as the French pirate Captain LaRouche. Buried in the cast is Oliver Reed future star of that Hammer classic, The Curse of the Werewolf.
Really not much of a film, it's still a pirate film so it's got lots of sword fights and fist fights and gun fights running throughout the film. There's not a dull moment.
87 minutes.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment