Pirates of Blood River is a 1962 Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions

Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies and in later...

 pirate film starring Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

 and Kerwin Matthews.

While in a penal colony, Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

 Jonathan Standish (Kerwin Matthews) is captured by pirates led by Capt. LaRoche (Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

) who force him to lead them back to his home village to retrieve a treasure supposedly hidden there.

This landlocked pirate movie features Michael Ripper

Michael Ripper

Michael Ripper was an English character actor born in Portsmouth.He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited. He played one of the two murderers in Richard III. Ripper became a mainstay in Hammer Film Productions...

, Andrew Keir

Andrew Keir

Andrew Keir was a Scottish actor, who rose to prominence featuring in a number of films from Hammer Film Productions in the 1960s. He was also active in television, and particularly in the theatre, in a professional career that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s...

, Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough guy" roles...

, Peter Arne

Peter Arne

Peter Arne was a British character actor best known for various performances in British film and television, including supporting roles in the television series The Avengers, Danger Man, as well as villains in Blake Edwards' Pink Panther series, in a career that spanned 40 years...

 and Glenn Corbett

Glenn Corbett

Glenn Corbett was an American actor best known for his role on CBS's adventure drama Route 66.-Acting career:...

. The female lead is Marla Landi

Marla Landi

Marla Landi is an Italian-born British film actress.Her major roles included Mary in Across the Bridge and Cecille Stapleton in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles .'Marla Landi' was her stage name....

. The pirates seem vaguely French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 because of a few of their names (LaRoche, Brocaire) but some are called Mack and Hench. The villagers appear to be a mix of Americans and Britons.

Trivia

• Christopher Lee
  Christopher Lee
  Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
  
   played in another pirate film, The Devil-Ship Pirates
  The Devil-Ship Pirates
  The Devil-Ship Pirates is a 1964 pirate adventure film made in the UK by Hammer Films. It concerned pirates from a vessel from the defeated Spanish Armada terrorizing citizens on the English coast. All goes well until the villagers realize the Spaniards have been defeated and revolt...
  
  , in 1964.
• Marla Landi
  Marla Landi
  Marla Landi is an Italian-born British film actress.Her major roles included Mary in Across the Bridge and Cecille Stapleton in Hammer's The Hound of the Baskervilles .'Marla Landi' was her stage name....
  
   appeared as Cecile Stapleton in Hammer Film Productions
  Hammer Film Productions
  Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies and in later...
  
  ' The Hound of the Baskervilles
  The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 film)
  The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1959 British detective film produced by Hammer Films and directed by Terence Fisher.The film is the first adaptation from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel of the same name to be filmed in colour and stars Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, Sir Christopher Lee as...
  
  , which also starred Christopher Lee
  Christopher Lee
  Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
  
  .