MOVIES - PIRATES 1962

• Billy Budd (1962)
• Captain Clegg [aka Night Creatures] (1962) 
• Dominatore dei sette mari, Il [aka Seven Seas to Calais] (1962) 
• Dos años de vacaciones [aka Two Years of Holidays] (1962)

• Dungeon of Harrow [aka Dungeon of Harrow, The] (1962)

• Figlio del capitano Blood, Il [aka Son of Captain Blood, The] (1962) 
• Giulio Cesare contro i pirati [aka Caesar Against the Pirates] (1962) 
• Giustiziere dei mari, Il [aka Avenger of the Seven Seas] (1962) 

• H.M.S. Defiant [aka Damn the Defiant!] (1962) 

• Hero's Island (1962)

• Master of Ballantrae, The (1962)

• Moschettieri del mare, I [aka Musketeers of the Sea] (1962) 

• Peter Pan (1962)

• Pirates of Blood River, The (1962)

• Prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo, Le [aka Women of Devil's Island] (1962) 
• Sparviero dei Caraibi, Lo [aka Caribbean Hawk] (1962) 
• Tigre dei sette mari, Le [aka Tiger of the Seven Seas] (1962) 

• Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Season 9, Episode 10: "Disneyland" The Mooncussers: Graveyard of Ships (1962) 

Billy Budd (1962)
Director: Peter Ustinov
Writers: Louis O. Coxe (based upon the play: "Billy Budd"), Robert H. Chapman (based upon the play: "Billy Budd"), Herman Melville (from the novel: "Billy Budd, Foretopman"), Peter Ustinov (screenplay), DeWitt Bodeen (screenplay, as Dewitt Bodeen) and Robert Rossen (screenplay, uncredited)
Cast: Robert Ryan [John Claggart - Master of Arms], Peter Ustinov [Edwin Fairfax Vere - Post Captain Royal Navy], Melvyn Douglas [The Dansker - Sailmaker], Paul Rogers [Philip Seymour - First Lieutenant], John Neville [Julian Radcliffe - Second Lieutenant], David McCallum [Steven Wyatt - Gunnery Officer], Ronald Lewis [Enoch Jenkins - Maintopman], Lee Montague [Squeak - Assistant to Mr. Claggart], Thomas Heathcote [Alan Payne - Maintopman], Ray McAnally [William O'Daniel - Maintopman, as Ray McAnnally], Robert Brown [Arnold Talbot - Maintopman], John Meillon [Neil Kincaid - Maintopman], Cyril Luckham [Alfred Hallam - Captain of Marines], Niall MacGinnis [Nathaniel Graveling - Ship's Master, Rights of Man, as Niall McGinnis], Victor Brooks [Amos Leonard - First Mate, Rights of Man]
Storyline: Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried. H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He relies on his cruel and often sadistic Master-at-Arms John Claggert to maintain what he believes to be tenuous order and discipline aboard the ship. When a new seaman, Billy Budd, is pressed into service from a passing merchantman, his innocent, happy-go-lucky attitude quickly endears him to both his messmates as well as the ship's officers. However, his charismatic naivete seems to bother Claggert, whose perverse depravity makes him resent Billy's good-natured purity, especially after the teenager's promotion to fore-top captain. The mean-spirited Claggert unfairly plots to put him on report and ultimately perjures himself when he accuses Billy of conspiring to mutiny.  
[123 min - Adventure | Drama - English - Black and White - UK - Allied Artists Pictures]


Captain Clegg [aka Night Creatures] (1962) 
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Writers: Anthony Hinds (screenplay), Barbara S. Harper (additional dialogue) and Russell Thorndike (novel "Dr. Syn", uncredited)
Cast: Peter Cushing [Rev. Dr. Blyss], Yvonne Romain [Imogene - serving wench], Patrick Allen [Capt. Collier], Oliver Reed [Harry Cobtree], Michael Ripper [Jeremiah Mipps (coffinmaker], Martin Benson [Mr. Rash, innkeeper], David Lodge [Navy bos'un], Derek Francis [Squire Anthony Cobtree], Daphne Anderson [Mrs. Rash], Milton Reid [The Mulatto], Jack MacGowran [Frightened Man], Terry Scully [Sailor Dick Tate], Sydney Bromley [Old Tom Ketch], Peter Halliday [Sailor Jack Pott], Rupert Osborne [Gerry, as Rupert Osborn]
Storyline: In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in this locale, and they send Captain Collier and his crew to check it out. As the Captain gets into his investigation, mysterious swamp phantoms cloud up the real issue which seems plain enough to see. Captain Collier suspects that the odd village vicar might be hiding something, and what better way to do that than by fortuitous ghosts to scare away the curious, or by posing as someone he is not? 
[80 min - Drama | Adventure | Horror - English - Color (Eastmancolor) - UK - Hammer Film Productions, Major Pictures]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dominatore dei sette mari, Il [aka Seven Seas to Calais] (1962) 
Directors: Rudolph Maté and Primo Zeglio
Writer: Filippo Sanjust
Cast: Rod Taylor [Sir Francis Drake], Keith Michell [Malcolm Marsh], Edy Vessel [Arabella Ducleau], Terence Hill [Babington, as Mario Girotti], Basil Dignam [Sir Francis Walsingham], Anthony Dawson [Lord Burleigh], Gianni Cajafa [Tom Moon], Irene Worth [Queen Elizabeth I], Arturo Dominici [Don Bernardino de Mendoza, the Spanish Ambassador], Marco Guglielmi [Fletcher], Esmeralda Ruspoli [Mary of Scotland], Rossella D'Aquino [Potato], Umberto Raho [King Philip of Spain], Aldo Bufi Landi [Vigeois]
Storyline: Rod Taylor plays Sir Francis Drake in this swashbuckling historical adventure. It's an Italian film with a full cast of Elizabethan-era characters. At the outset, Capt. Francis Drake sets sail in pursuit of the Spanish and their treasure, with the backing of Queen Elizabeth (Irene Worth). After weeks at sea, in which he withstands an ill-founded mutiny attempt, Drake and his crew outwit and overpower the Spaniards and take their gold. Upon his return, Drake earns knighthood and the affection and admiration of the queen. The action doesn't end there. Treachery is afoot, but it's thwarted by Drake and his men. And the movie concludes with a pretty spectacular cannon battle between the outnumbered British and the Spanish Armada. At the end, Drake sails off to sea for more glorious adventure. Viewed today, a scene involving New World natives looks silly. But overall, it's a stirring film, and Taylor gives a hearty, convincing performance as the heroic sea-captain/explorer/privateer.
[102 min - Adventure - Italian - Color (Eastmancolor) - Italy - Adelphia Compagnia Cinematografica]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dos años de vacaciones [aka Two Years of Holidays] (1962)
Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel
Writers: Jaime García Herranz, Emilio Gómez Muriel and Jules Verne (novel "Deux ans de vacances")
Cast: Pablo Alonso, Pablito Calvo, Alejandro Ciangherotti, José Ignacio Corrales, Luis Induni, Charo Maldonado, José Moreno, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Fernando Rubio, Antonio Vela [Doniphan]
[92 min - Adventure | Drama | Family - Spanish - Color - Spain | Mexico - Juan de Orduña, P.C., Oro Films, Producciones Corsa S.A.]

 

 

Dungeon of Harrow [aka Dungeon of Harrow, The] (1962) 
Director: Pat Boyette
Writers: Pat Boyette and Henry Garcia
Cast: Russ Harvey [Aaron Fallon], Helen Hogan [Cassandra], William McNulty [Count Lorente de Sade], Michele Buquor [Ann], Maurice Harris [Mantis], Eunice Grey [Countess de Sade], Henry Garcia, Don Russell, Leon Schumacher Jr., Lee Morgan [The Captain]
Storyline: In this horror movie, two people are marooned on a dark island inhabited by a mad count. His wife, a leper, is also crazy. They are cared for by a slave girl whose tongue was cut out by pirates. The stranded pair are captured and tortured by the count. Though they try, they cannot seem to escape. Soon the whole cast comes down with leprosy and dies.
An evil, sadistic count lives in a waterfront castle with his insane family members. One day the survivor of a shipwreck washes ashore near the castle and finds himself a captive there.
[86 min - Horror - English - USA - Herts-Lion International Corp.] 

Figlio del capitano Blood, Il [aka Son of Captain Blood, The] (1962) 
Director: Tulio Demicheli
Writers: Casey Robinson (story and screenplay), Rafael Sabatini (characters), Mario Caiano (dialogue: Italian version and screenplay adaptation: Italian version) and Arturo Rígel (screenplay)
Cast: Sean Flynn [Robert Blood], Alessandra Panaro [Abigail 'Abby' McBride], John Kitzmiller [Moses], José Nieto [Capitan De Malagon], Roberto Camardiel [Oliver Orguelthorpe], Fernando Sancho [Timothy Thomas], Ann Todd [Arabella Blood], Álvaro de Luna 
Storyline: The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
[95 min - Action | Adventure | History - Spanish - Color (Eastmancolor) - Spain | Italy | USA - Compagnia Cinematografica Mondiale (CCM), Harry Joe Brown Productions, Producciones Benito Perojo]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giulio Cesare contro i pirati [aka Caesar Against the Pirates] (1962) 
Director: Sergio Grieco
Writers: Fabio De Agostini (screenplay), Sergio Grieco (screenplay), Maria Grazia Borgiotti (screenplay and story) and Gino Mangini (screenplay)
Cast: Gustavo Rojo [Julius Caesar], Abbe Lane [Plauzia], Gordon Mitchell [Hamar, the Pirate], Erno Crisa [Sulla], Piero Lulli [Edom], Franca Parisi [Cornelia], Mario Petri [Nicomede], Silvana Jachino [Quintilia, as Susan Terry], Massimo Carocci [Publio], Ignazio Leone [Frontone], Fedele Gentile [Valerio Torcuato], Rosanna Fattori [Eber], Aldo Cecconi
Storyline: Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome. 
[93 min - Action | Adventure | Drama - Italian - Color - Italy - C.A.P.R.I.]

 

 

 

 

Giustiziere dei mari, Il [aka Avenger of the Seven Seas] (1962) 
Director: Domenico Paolella
Writers: Ugo Guerra, Luciano Martino, Ernesto Gastaldi (uncredited) and Domenico Paolella
Cast: Richard Harrison [David Robinson], Michèle Mercier [Jennifer], Roldano Lupi [Redway], Marisa Belli [Nike], Walter Barnes [Van Artz], Paul Muller [Hornblut], Carlo Hinterman [Errol Robinson], Lilia Nguyen [Tahitian Dancer], Italo Sain, Romano Giomini
Storyline: It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway. Along the way we are treated to sea battles, blood-thirsty cannibals, and wall-to-wall action. 
[90 min - Adventure - Italian - Color (Eastmancolor) - Italy | France - Documento Film, Le Louvre Film]

 
 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

H.M.S. Defiant [aka Damn the Defiant!] (1962) 

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Writers: Nigel Kneale (screenplay), Edmund H. North (screenplay) and Frank Tilsley (novel "Mutiny")

Cast: Alec Guinness [Captain Crawford], Dirk Bogarde [Lieut. Scott-Padget], Maurice Denham [Mr. Goss, Ship's Surgeon], Nigel Stock [Senior Midshipman Kilpatrick], Richard Carpenter [Lieut. Ponsonby], Peter Gill [Lieut. D'Arblay], David Robinson [Harvey Crawford], Robin Stewart [Pardoe], Ray Brooks [Hayes], Peter Greenspan [Johnson], Anthony Quayle [Vizard], Tom Bell [Evans], Murray Melvin [Wagstaffe], Victor Maddern [Dawlish], Bryan Pringle [Sgt. Kneebone]

Storyline: Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but compassionate captain of a British warship, engaged in the Napoleonic wars. Guinness is popular with his men, which is more than can be said for his new second-in-command Dirk Bogarde. When Guinness tries to modify Bogarde's sadistic adherence to discipline, Bogarde responds by mistreating Guinness' cabin-boy son, knowing that the captain cannot intervene under the edicts of British maritime law. During an incipient mutiny, Bogarde is accidently killed, and Guinness knows that the crewmen responsible must hang once they reach shore. But after these same men perform courageously in battle, Guinness suffers a crisis of conscience: How can he condemn these fearlessly patriotic men to death, as he knows he must? Based on the novel Mutiny by Frank Tilsley.

[101 min - Adventure | Drama | History -  Color (Technicolor) - English | French (only a few words) - UK - Columbia Pictures Corporation, G.W. Films Limited]

Hero's Island (1962)
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens (dramatist)
Cast: James Mason [Jacob Weber], Neville Brand [Kingstree], Kate Manx [Devon Mainwaring], Rip Torn [Nicholas Gates], Warren Oates [Wayte Giddens], Brendan Dillon [Thomas Mainwaring], Harry Dean Stanton [Dixey Gates, as Dean Stanton], Robert Sampson [Enoch Gates], Morgan Mason [Cullen], Darby Hinton [Jafar], John Hudkins [Bullock, as John Hudkins Jr.], Bobby Johnson [Pound, as Robert Johnson], William Hart [Meggett]
Storyline: On an island off the Carolina coast, an 18th century family is being besieged by murderous local fisherman. An outsider joins the family, aided by a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Blackbeard the Pirate. Bonnett was a real buccaneer in the early 18th Century, known as "The Gentleman Pirate" both for his taste in fine clothes and his reputed kindness to the women that he robbed. Here Bonnett is less refined, but he's still coming to the aid of a besieged widow and her family while marooned on an island by his mutinous crew.
[94 min - Action | Adventure | Drama - English - Color (Technicolor) - USA - Daystar Productions]

 
 
 
 
 

Master of Ballantrae, The (1962)
Director: Pharic Maclaren
Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson (novel) and Constance Cox (adaptation)
Series cast summary: John Breslin [Henry Durie, 6 episodes, 1962], John Cairney [James Durie, 6 episodes, 1962], Hilary Thomson [Alison Graeme, 6 episodes, 1962], Paul Kermack [Ephraim Mackellar, 5 episodes, 1962], James Gibson [Macconochie, 4 episodes, 1962], Douglas Murchie [John Paul, 4 episodes, 1962], David Steuart [Lord Durrisdeer, 4 episodes, 1962], 
Phil McCall [Secundras Dass, 3 episodes, 1962], Una McLean [Jessie Brown, 3 episodes, 1962], Gerry Slevin [Grady, 3 episodes, 1962]
Episode 1 credited cast: John Breslin [Henry Durie], John Cairney [James Durie], Hilary Thomson [Alison Graeme], Douglas Murchie [John Paul], David Steuart [Lord Durrisdeer], Una McLean [Jessie Brown], Gerry Slevin [Grady], James Gibson [Macconochie], Dunnett Iain [Tam Macmorland], Stuart James [Landlord], Marjorie Thompson [Maggie Gibson]
Episode 2 credited cast: John Breslin [Henry Durie], John Cairney [James Durie], Gino Coia [Seaman], James Gibson [Macconochie], Paul Kermack [Ephraim Mackellar], David Kinnaird [Dutton], Leonard Maguire [Francis Burke], Angus Martin [Seaman], Alex McCrindle [Captain Teach], Una McLean [Jessie Brown], Ronald Muirhead [Groom], Douglas Murchie [John Paul], 
Gerry Slevin [Grady], David Steuart [Lord Durrisdeer], Hilary Thomson [Alison Graeme]
Episode 3 credited cast: John Breslin [Henry Durie], John Cairney [James Durie], Gino Coia [Seaman], James Gibson [Macconochie], Paul Kermack [Ephraim Mackellar], David Kinnaird [Dutton], Leonard Maguire [Francis Burke], Angus Martin [Seaman], Alex McCrindle [Captain Teach], Una McLean [Jessie Brown], Ronald Muirhead [Seaman], Douglas Murchie [John Paul], 
Gerry Slevin [Grady], David Steuart [Lord Durrisdeer], Hilary Thomson [Alison Graeme]
Episode 4 credited cast: John Breslin [Henry Durie], John Cairney [James Durie], James Gibson [Macconochie], Paul Kermack [Ephraim Mackellar], Carole Matthew [Jeannie], Phil McCall [Secundras Dass], Douglas Murchie [John Paul], Brydon Murdoch [Mr.Carlyle], Andrew Robertson [Alexander Durie], David Steuart [Lord Durrisdeer], Hilary Thomson [Alison Graeme]
Episode 5 credited cast: Arthur Boland [Servant], John Breslin [Henry Durie], John Cairney [James Durie], Martin Heller [General Clinton], Paul Kermack [Ephraim Mackellar], Carole Matthew [Jeannie], Phil McCall [Secundras Dass], John Shedden [Seaman], Hilary Thomson [Alison Graeme]
Episode 6 credited cast: Roy Boutcher [Man], John Breslin [Henry Durie], John Cairney [James Durie], Wallace Campbell [Captain Harris], Michael Elder [Mountain], Paul Kermack [Ephraim Mackellar], Phil McCall [Secundras Dass], Jessie Morton [Woman], Andrew Robertson [Alexander Durie], Bill Simpson [Hastie], Hilary Thomson [Alison Graeme], John Young [Sir William Johnson]
[TV Series - 6 Episodes, 30 min - Adventure | History - English - Black and White - UK - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)]

Moschettieri del mare, I [aka Musketeers of the Sea] (1962) 
Directors: Massimo Patrizi and Steno
Writers: Marcello Fondato, Roberto Gianviti, Vittorio Metz and Steno
Cast: Pier Angeli [Consuelo / Gracia], Channing Pollock [Pierre de Savigny], Aldo Ray [Moreau], Philippe Clay [Gosselin], Robert Alda [Vice Governatore Gomez], Raymond Bussières [Colonnello Ortona], Carlo Ninchi [Conte di Lorna], Mario Scaccia [Re di Francia], Carla Calò [Zalamea], Mario Siletti [Il Tesoriere], Cesare Fantoni [Padre Milita], Gino Buzzanca [Capo Ciurma Gutierrez], Pietro Tordi [Il Nostromo], Furio Meniconi [Pirate Captain], Lamberto Antinori
Storyline: A stampede of France leads the three friends Pierre Moreau and Gosselin to join the Filibusta. The ship on which they are embarked, however, wrecked, but the three friends can get on a galleon and captured the crew to sail to Maracaibo. There waiting for them the Brethren of the Coast. Although it served as a trivial story, Steno can build a fun story, mixing the comedy with the picaresque, aided by the skill of the actors. Pier Angeli appears in the dual role of a novice and her twin, kidnapped as a child and brought up as a buccaneer!
[116 min - Adventure - Italian - Color - Italy | France - France Cinéma Productions, Morino Film]

Peter Pan (1962)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writers: J.M. Barrie (play) and Erich Kästner (translation)
Cast: Wolf Ackva [Herr Darling], Michael Ande [Peter Pan], Helga Anders [Wendy Darling], Panos Papadopulos [Pirat]
Storyline: The sisters Wendy, John and Michael are haunted by the same dreams: It is always about a bloodthirsty pirates and a brave boy named Peter Pan. One night, a strange thing to suddenly appeared in her room. Nana, the watchdog gets to catch the shadow of the alien being. At night, the children do not sleep. Could include the shadow Peter Pan? One thing is certain, the character will come back to retrieve his shadow...
[TV Movie - Fantasy - German - Black and White - West Germany - Bavaria-Filmkunst Verleih]

Pirates of Blood River, The (1962)
Director: John Gilling
Writers: Jimmy Sangster (from a story by), John Hunter (screenplay), John Gilling (screenplay) and Anthony Nelson Keys (uncredited)
Cast: Kerwin Mathews [Jonathon Standing], Glenn Corbett [Henry], Christopher Lee [Captain LaRoche], Peter Arne [Hench, a pirate], Marla Landi [Bess Standing], Oliver Reed [Brocaire, a pirate], Andrew Keir [Jason Standing], Michael Ripper [Mack, a pirate], David Lodge [Smith], Dennis Waterman [Timothy Blackthorne], Jack Stewart [Godfrey Mason], Lorraine Clewes [Martha Blackthorne], Jerold Wells [Penal Colony Master]
Storyline: A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it. In a village of Huguenot refugees, Jonathan Standish 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.
[87 min - Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance | Thriller - English - Color (Eastmancolor) - UK - Hammer Film Productions]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prigioniere dell'isola del diavolo, Le [aka Women of Devil's Island] (1962) 
Director: Domenico Paolella
Writer: Domenico Paolella and Ernesto Gastaldi (uncredited)
Cast: Guy Madison [Henri Vallière], Michèle Mercier [Martine Foucher], Federica Ranchi [Jeanette, as Frederika Ranchi], Marisa Belli [Melina], Paul Muller [Lefèvre], Tullio Altamura [Dubois], Antonella Della Porta [Louise], Carlo Hinterman [Capt. Duval], Gisella Arden [Maeva], Fernando Piazza [Mulat], Roldano Lupi, Margaret Rose Keil [Rosy], Claudine Damon [Pauline]
Storyline: A boatload of scantilly clad and sweaty female convicts from France are on their way to Devil's Island, the infamous French penal colony on the coast of South America. One of them is also looking for her sister. We are treated to various abusive policies by the corrupt prison-camp management and guards, along with sexual exploitation of the women by officials looking to trade favors for attention. Guy Madison arrives to take over administration of the penal colony, and he's something of a reformer, stopping the abuse and punishing those who do not respect the human rights of the prisoners. That doesn't win him any popularity among the old guard. Madison also falls in love with one of the prisoners, but Madison's character is not exactly what he seems to be, and there's also a question of a cache of hidden gold... Unfortunately, Mr. Madison does not dub his own voice, although the voice assigned to him is not too distracting. 
[86 min - Action | Adventure | Drama - Italian - Color - Italy | France - Documento Film, Le Louvre Film]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sparviero dei Caraibi, Lo [aka Caribbean Hawk] (1962) 
Director: Piero Regnoli
Writer: Piero Regnoli
Cast: Johnny Desmond [Juan Rodrigo Olivares], Yvonne Monlaur [Arica], Armando Francioli [Captain Esteban], Piero Lulli [Manuel Garcia], Claudio Undari [Don Pedro de Alicante, as Robert Hundar], Franca Parisi [Doña Mary], Elvi Lissiak [Lolita], Franco Santi [Pedrito], Graziella Granata [Flora], Carlo Lombardi [Captain Pinto], Nino Marchesini [Viceroy Santa Cruz], Walter Brandi [Ramon], Musolino Vincenzo [Rodriguez], Paolo Solay [Luigi Batzella], Nerio Bernardi, Riccardo De Santis, Carla Foscari, Mara Garden, Silvana Jachino [as Susan Terry] 
Storyline: In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at a nearby island. They organize themselves under the leadership of Juan Olivares (dynamically played by charismatic singer-actor Johnny Desmond), manage to take over a ship with some cargo that they barter for supplies, and eventually are asked to fight on behalf of the Spanish crown against the English... or is the request sincere? That's just part of the plot of this surprisingly good Italian swashbuckling costume adventure. 
[115 min - Action | Adventure | Drama - Italian - Color (Eastmancolor) - Italy - Nord Film Italiana, Remarch Film]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tigre dei sette mari, Le [aka Tiger of the Seven Seas] (1962) 
Director: Luigi Capuano
Writers: Nino Battiferri (story), Luigi Capuano (adaptation), Arpad DeRiso (adaptation) and Ottavio Poggi (adaptation)
Cast: Gianna Maria Canale [Consuelo], Anthony Steel [William Scott], Maria Grazia Spina [Anna de Cordoba], Ernesto Calindri [Inigo de Cordoba], Andrea Aureli [Robert, Consuelo's father], Carlo Ninchi [Tiger], John Kitzmiller [Serpente], Carlo Pisacane [Pirate], Nazzareno Zamperla [Rick], Pasquale De Filippo, Giulio Battiferri, Renato Giomini, Renato Izzo
Storyline: "Tiger of the Seven Seas" tells the story of Consuelo (Gianna Maria Canale), daughter of a pirate captain everybody calls "The Tiger" (Carlo Ninchi). Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of the ship. Unfortunately he has only a daughter, Consuelo. So he will leave the command and the ship to the winner of a challenge among his men. Unexpectedly Consuelo wins. The same night Tigre is killed, William is charged with the killing and is sentenced to death. But before the sentence could be executed the Spaniards of Grand Duke Inigo arrives. Consuelo escapes, however this is only the first move of Indigo's wife to get to the pirates treasure. 
[90 min - Adventure - Italian - Color (Eastmancolor) - Italy | France - Euro International Film (EIA), Liber Film]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Season 9, Episode 10: "Disneyland" The Mooncussers: Graveyard of Ships (1962) 

Director: James Neilson

Writers: Iris Vinton (book) and Lowell S. Hawley

Episode credited cast: Oskar Homolka [Urias Hawke], Kevin Corcoran [Jonathan Feather], Robert Emhardt [Mr. Wick], Rian Garrick [Dan Hallett], Joan Freeman [Betsy Feather], Lee Aaker [Willy], Paul E. Burns [Mose], Robert Burton [E.P. Hallett], Walt Disney [Himself - Host], Ted Jacques [Bill Stacy], Dayton Lummis [Commissioner], Erin O'Brien-Moore [Mrs. Feather], Tudor Owen [Skipper of the Portland], Dub Taylor [Fire Tender], Eddy Waller [Captain Swain]

Storyline: A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea; the ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang. 

[TV Episode - 85 min - Action | Adventure | Biography - English - Color (Technicolor) - USA - Walt Disney Productions]