Pirates Of Tortuga (1961)

At the commission of the crown, a Captain (Ken Scott) and his crew go undercover as pirates in order to ferret out the notorious Morgan The Pirate (Robert Stephens) and put an end to his reign of terror. Directed by Robert D. Webb (BENEATH THE 12 MILE REEF), this routine swashbuckler is patched together with bits and pieces of a hundred other pirate movies. For a "B" programmer, it has a rich look to it courtesy of Ellis W. Carter's (INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN) cinematography, Jack Martin Smith and George Van Marter's art direction and the uncredited costumer. But it's clearly a Fox back lot Jamaica and a generous amount of stock footage which if my eye doesn't deceived me is lifted from Fox's own ANNE OF THE INDIES and perhaps THE BLACK SWAN. Ken Scott was a contract player that Fox frequently used but he wasn't anything more than a good looking cipher and the public never bit. As Morgan, Robert Stephens overacts but Leticia Roman as a wench has a certain charm. With John Richardson, Dave King, Rafer Johnson, Stanley Adams and Rachel Stephens.