Pirates of Blood River
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| Pirates of Blood River | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Gilling |
| Written by | Jimmy Sangster (screenplay) |
| Starring | Christopher Lee Kerwin Matthews Glenn Corbett Oliver Reed |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1962 |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
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 a Michael Ripper, Andrew Keir, Oliver Reed, Peter Arne, and inexplicably 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.
