Rent The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
3.0 of 5 from 57 ratings
1h 27min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- In a village of Huguenot refugees, Jonathon Standing (Kerwin Mathews) 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.
- Actors:
- Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Peter Arne, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir, Michael Ripper, David Lodge, Dennis Waterman, Jack Stewart, Lorraine Clewes, Jerold Wells, Diane Aubrey, John Bennett, Richard Bennett, Ronald Blackman, Bill Brandon, John Collin, Marie Devereux
- Directors:
- John Gilling
- Producers:
- Anthony Nelson Keys
- Writers:
- John Gilling, John Hunter, Jimmy Sangster, Anthony Nelson Keys
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 30/03/2020
- Run Time:
- 87 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with screenwriter Jimmy Sangster, art director Don Mingaye and Hammer historian Marcus Hearn (2008)
- Hammer's Women: Marla Landi (2020): profile of the Hammer star by film historian Kat Ellinger
- Stephen Laws Introduces 'The Pirates of Blood River' (2020): an appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
- Andrew Keir at the Manchester Festival of Fantastic Films (1993): archival video recording of the acclaimed actor in conversation with Stephen Laws
- Did I Write That? (2020): Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic, discusses the career of Jimmy Sangster
- David Huckvale on Gary Hughes (2020): appreciation of the film's score by the author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde
- Yes, We Have No Piranhas (2020): video essay on the censorship history of The Pirates of Blood River
- Original theatrical trailer
- Brian Trenchard-Smith trailer commentary (2013): short critical appreciation
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity materials
- UK premiere on Blu-ray
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Reviews (1) of The Pirates of Blood River
Bit flat - The Pirates of Blood River review by sb
FILM & REVIEW Was looking forward to catching this as its ( as far as I know ) the only Hammer movie in the Pirate genre - but sad to report it’s fairly dull. Set in a New England Puritan colony dashing hero Jonathan (Matthew’s) is caught having an affair with another man’ wife. They flee only for her to caught in a river and eaten by piranhas (which passes for Gods Judgement ) and he is sent to a penal colony from which no man ever returns. He escapes and is capture by pirates led by Captain Larouche (Lee clad in black and sporting the obligatory eye patch). He is convinced the village has treasure but they deny it so a stand off ensues….various battles take place until the truth is revealed. The main issue is that is a pirate movie which due to budgetary constants is set wholly on land (shot mainly around Wiltshire) so you get mimimal pirate action. Lee seems rather bored with it all and although Oliver Reed gets billing he is in it for about 5 minutes with about 2 lines of dialogue and Hammer regular Michael Ripper over does the aye aye Captain bit. Director John Gilling would go to make The Reptile and Plague of the Zombies two Hammer classics - this - not so much - 3/5
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