Los bucaneros del Diablo

Los bucaneros del Diablo (1964)

The Devil-Ship Pirates

Cuando Felipe II soñaba con invadir y conquistar Inglaterra, un barco español llamado Diablo, que ha sido afectado por una tempestad ignorando que han destruido a la Armada Invencible, y que ha quedado aislado del resto de la flota, busca refugio en el pequeño pueblo costero británico de Canwall para efectuar las reparaciones oportunas. Una vez en tierra firme el capitán Robeles (Christopher Lee) y su tripulación se enfrentarán con los habitantes del lugar, tomando el control del pueblo, asolando la zona, haciendo creer a sus habitantes que la Armada Invencible sigue intacta y que Felipe II es el nuevo monarca de las islas. (FILMAFFINITY)

Fecha de estreno
1964-08-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (27)
Duración
1 h 26 min
Géneros
Acción, Aventura, Suspense
Director
Don Sharp

Reparto

Curiosidades

The Devil-Ship Pirates is a 1964 British pirate adventure film directed by Don Sharp.

Production

In the early 1960s Hammer Films were best known for their horror movies, but they also tried other genres. The studio made a swashbuckler, The Pirates of Blood River (1962), written by Jimmy Sangster and starring Christopher Lee; it was a success at the box office, so Hammer commissioned Sangster to write another pirate-themed story for Lee, The Devil Ship Pirates.

The film was part of a new slate of eight films James Carreras announced in July 1963 that Hammer would make, others including Quatermass and the Pit, She, Blood of the Foreign Legion, Brainstorm (which became Fear in the Night), The Evil of Frankenstein, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, and The Secret of Blood Island. Most of these were not made until later and Blood of the Foreign Legion was never made at all.

Don Sharp had just directed his first feature for Hammer, Kiss of the Vampire and was invited back to work at the studio by Tony Hinds. Sharp says the film was aimed at the school holiday market so it needed to have a "U" certificate. "But they wanted it to look like a X film. So we had an action film with kids in it," said Sharp.

It was the first time Sharp had worked with Christopher Lee. The director had seen several of Lee's performances "and I was worried about a range I saw as playing down one line. But right from our first meeting we got on and when we talked it was two actors talking. We'd explore his character and I found myself suggesting depths to Captain Roebles that I hadn't expected I'd be able to.

Filming began on 19 August 1963 at Bray Studios in Berkshire and took place until mid October. Sharp did not get along particularly well with producer Anthony Nelson Keys who he called "a general manager type and any idea he had was most obvious. I remember him telling me that he wanted Christopher Lee's pirate to be clad in blue and I said, ‘A blue pirate. Tony? What shall we call him.

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