In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.
- Tavern Host
- (as Bob Stephenson)
- Pirate
- (uncredited)
- Pirate at Inn
- (uncredited)
- Pirate
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStudio production chief Darryl F. Zanuck instructed the writers to incorporate unused footage shot for the Twentieth Century-Fox pirate film The Black Swan (1942), starring Tyrone Power.
- GoofsWhen Captain LaRochelle jumps from his burning ship, he is wearing a white shirt, but when subsequently brought aboard the Sheba Queen his shirt is green. Moments later when he enters Anne's cabin he is wearing yet a different shirt (sleeves hanging over cuffs) and a narrower cummerbund.
- Quotes
Capt. Harris: We have no business that I know of.
Captain Pierre François LaRochelle: My ship, sir. We made an agreement, we shook hands.
Capt. Harris: And you failed to keep it. The Sheba Queen is still free to burn and pillage English ships. While all we have of you is the unlikely story that Captain Providence is a woman.
[turns back to his card game]
Capt. Harris: Another card, please.
Captain Pierre François LaRochelle: We put our hands to a bargain, Captain Harris. And to make my hand good, I've worn irons. I've been spread-eagled and flogged, I've been under the cutlass of Blackbeard himself. I've called red-handed cutthroats my friend, I've stood by and watched murders - and worse. And that's not all, oh no!
Capt. Harris: Another card, please.
Captain Pierre François LaRochelle: With the daily and nightly prospect of the plank at my back, I've flattered and crawled, made myself "agreeable" in all ways, to the vilest hearted she-monster that ever came out of the sea - and I think all the oceans will never wash me clean again. It's you, gentlemen, who have bungled. I still hold to my bargain!
- Crazy creditsPROLOGUE: Less than two hundred and fifty years ago, the last of the great pirates wrote their names in blood and fire across the pages of maritime history.
This is the story of a buccaneer Captain whose name for one short year struck terror in the hearts of seafarers and merchants from the ports of the Carribbean to the great trading houses of London....
- ConnectionsEdited into Pirates of Tortuga (1961)
And as with these two films, Anne of the Indies' genre bending and most of Tourneur's other semi-studio oddities, it works a charm.
This film is essentially a battle between the feminine and the masculine. Starring Jean Peters as the female-but-hardly pirate Captain Providence, Tourneur uses expectations of gender roles and genre to explore Providence's struggles with her sexual identity. In fact, she remains almost asexual - whilst she shows little interest in men, or only as sexual objects, she is similarly ambivalent (or downright hostile) to women, or "wenches".
Although the cinematography and lighting lacks the stylistic force that is inherent in so many of Tourneur's other films (Cat People, I Walked With A Zombie and Out of the Past most notably), the film is almost thematically flawless. Though these stylistic concerns are to the film's detriment, the script and Tourneur's ability to play strongly to subtle subtexts overcome such problems.
- BradLacey
- Jun 9, 2002
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- Also known as
- Die Piratenkönigin
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1