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Aug 30, 2016 · The Pirates of Blood River (1962) kicked off a series of pirate films. The original story was written by the studio's most reliable scribe, Jimmy Sangster, and Christopher Lee, who played the creature in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula in The Horror the Dracula (1958), continued his reign as the studio's resident villain as LaRoche, the cunning and coldly vicious pirate captain.
Critics reviews. In a village of Huguenot refugees, Jonathon Standing is exiled by his father to a nearby penal colony for his improper relationship with a married woman. This penal colony is then invaded by pirates who force Jonathan to lead them back to his village, convinced that it contains a great treasure.
The one-eyed French Captain LaRoche (Christopher Lee) leads his motley band of Pirates to invade a Huguenot village in the middle of nowhere because he believes it has hidden wealth. Jason Standing (Andrew Keir) is the religious leader of the village, and thinks nothing of driving a woman committing adultery into a river filled with piranha ...
Oct 16, 2016 · The Devil-Ship Pirates is much more what I would consider a pirate movie than its predecessor from two years prior, The Pirates of Blood River; however, it’s still mostly landlocked. Again drawing from history, Hammer this time depicts a July, 1588 battle in the English Channel against the Spanish Armada in which a damaged ship-for-hire, “Diablo,” lands on the coast for repairs.
The Pirates of Blood River. 1962. 1 hr 27 mins. Action & Adventure. NR. Watchlist. Derring-do in the 18th century, as an unjustly jailed French Huguenot runs afoul of pirates. Streaming. Airings.
Oliver Reed. Pirate Brocaire. Marie Devereux. Maggie Mason (uncredited) Jerold Wells. Penal Colony Master. Dennis Waterman. Timothy Blackthorne, the boy. Desmond Llewelyn.
