The Pirates Of Blood River (1962)

After escaping from a penal colony, a prisoner (Kerwin Mathews, 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD) is captured by pirates and forced by the pirate leader (Christopher Lee) to lead them to his small village where the pirates believe there is hidden treasure. By anyone's standards, this feeble swashbuckler is a bust. Visually, it's quite handsome in the usual Hammer colorful manner with plenty of bosomy wenches and neatly shot in "MegaScope" by Arthur Grant (QUATERMASS AND THE PIT) with Buckinghamshire, England subbing for the Caribbean. But the two dull American leads (besides Mathews, there's Glenn Corbett) don't bring anything to the party which leaves Lee to effortlessly steal the film as the cold blooded pirate king. A piranha infested river gives the film its title but for a pirate movie, it's literally landlocked. Directed by John Gilling (THE MUMMY'S SHROUD). With Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir, Marla Landi, and Peter Arne.