In the film I called for a small part the comic Polidor (.) '. We had to know the beautiful pine forests and to observe a peaceful people to his farm work. The climate of Ischia regenerated me a lot. Of this first film the director recalls the scenes 'scenes shot in Ischia, a beautiful island that I have in mind for its natural beauty. The island offers, as a backdrop to epic duels, views of the sea and beautiful and terrible storms. It's a popular movie, but made no economy, with real ships and a collision of excellent effect. ISBN 978-1-84885-608-0.'The Black Corsair' is based on the novel by Emilio Salgari, in which our Pithecusa is smuggled to a Caribbean island. Cinema Italiano - The Complete Guide From Classics To Cult. The depiction of the sea battles was achieved by using stock footage. Shortly after filming for Blackie the Pirate (1971) was finished, the production for Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) started. Skull is his prisoner, and he uses now Skull's ship the ' Erebus' to get the gold.įilming 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. Skull takes them as prisoners where he still demands to make a deal or torture them for information.īlackie manages to free his crew, but loses his ship the ' Fury'.

When he returns to his ship, it has been captured by the other three pirates where they plan to use it for their plan. Blackie manages to elude and escape the other three and makes it to the San Luis, where he finds a secret about the gold. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.

However, Skull also knows who she is, and tries to make a deal. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the Viceroy, and Blackie buys her. 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. His rival is the Viceroy of the Spanish colony. He devises a plan to find this ship and its gold. 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.Ĭaptain Blackie ( Terence Hill) is a notorious pirate who learns about a shipment of Spanish gold when he encounters Don Pedro ( George Martin).