Blackie the Pirate

1971 Italian film

1971 (1971)

Running time

99 minutesCountryItaly

Blackie the Pirate (Italian: Il corsaro nero) is a 1971 comedy film with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, unusual in that the popular team has little screen time together.

Story

In the late 17th century, Captain Blackie (Terence Hill) is a notorious pirate who learns about a shipment of Spanish gold when he encounters Don Pedro (George Martin). He devises a plan to find this ship and its gold. His rival is the Viceroy of the Spanish colony.

He goes to Tortuga (a pirate settlement), where Montbarc, DeLussac, and Skull (Bud Spencer), three other pirate captains, all have different versions of the events involving the gold; Montbarc sells two prisoners from his capture of a Spanish frigate. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the Viceroy, and Blackie buys her. However, Skull also knows who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie. Blackie manages to elude and escape the other three and makes it to the San Luis, where he finds a secret about the gold. When he returns to his ship, it has been captured by the other three pirates where they plan to use it for their plan. Skull takes them as prisoners where he still demands to make a deal or torture them for information.

Blackie manages to free his crew, but loses his ship the "Fury". Skull is his prisoner, and he uses now Skull's ship the "Erebus" to get the gold.

Cast

Terence Hill as Blackie
Silvia Monti as Isabel
George Martin as Pedro
Diana Lorys as Manuela
Mónica Randall as Carmen
Sal Borgese as Martin
Pasquale Basile as Stiller
Fernando Bilbao as Moko
Bud Spencer as Skull
Aldo Cecconi as Recruiter
Paolo Magalotti as Alonso
Gustavo Re as Noble
Luciano Pigozzi as Montbarque
Carlo Reali as DeLussac

Production

Filming for this film took place shortly after the filming for They Call Me Trinity (1970) ended and before that movie was released and it became known how successful that movie, and its formula, would become. Shortly after filming for Blackie the Pirate (1971) was finished, the production for Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) started. The depiction of the sea battles was achieved by using stock footage.^[1]