The Devil-Ship Pirates

Fun, action-filled Hammer pirate adventure. Sony Pictures' essential Choice Collection line of hard-to-find cult and library titles has raided a previous Sony DVD set, 2007's Icons of Adventure, for a stand-alone release of The Devil-Ship Pirates, the 1964 period actioner from England's famed Hammer Studios (released here by Columbia Pictures) starring Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir, John Cairney,Best prices on staff lockers and locker parts, Save up to 40%. Largest UK supplier of locker lock manufacturers, keys and accessories. Duncan Lamont, Ernest Clark,The product range of mechanical lock cylinder sellers extends beyond the common range of double, single, thumbturn and furniture cylinders.High Security payphone lock sale Solutions provide revenue protection, key control, physical security, and environmental protection. and Michael Ripper. Potential double-dippers won't need to purchase this stand-alone (the 2007 commentary track has been included--a very nice bonus indeed for a Choice Collection offering), but newcomers to the title (myself included) who enjoy the genre and the studio, will find The Devil-Ship Pirates quite to their liking. 

July, 1588.Online shopping for cheap cabinet locks & Straps Safety from a great selection of Baby & more at everyday low prices. Two days into a disastrous naval battle with the English fleet, the Spanish Armada limps its way up the Channel. One of its boats, the Diablo, manned by cutthroat privateers and captained by Robeles (Christopher Lee), is badly damaged and in need of repairs. Spanish naval advisor Don Jose Margella (Joseph O'Conor) insists that Captain Robeles sail with the Armada to continue the fight, but when the officer tries to incite a mutiny, Robeles kills Margella and hatches a desperate plan: he'll beach the Diablo in the nearby English marshes to effect repairs, and then ditch the losing Armada to return to pirating in the West Indies. Hoping to remain undetected, the crew is forced to capture Jane (Natasha Pyne), who happens to spot the disabled Spanish ship from her rowboat. Sending scouts Pepe (Michael Ripper) and the bosun (Duncan Lamont) into town with uptight military liaison Don Manuel Rodriguez de Savilla (Barry Warren), Pepe blows their cover by attempting to rape a local, with Pepe and the bosun quickly arrested. Don Manuel, on the spur of the moment, lies to the cowardly lord of the manor and chief law officer, Sir Basil Smeeton (Ernest Clark), that the Spanish Armada has actually won the crucial naval battle and that England is now Spain's. The craven Smeeton is all too willing to lick the boots of these phony conquerors, but blacksmith Tom (Andrew Keir), and his son, Harry (John Cairney), whose arm was paralyzed by Spanish torturers, refuse to bow...even when Captain Robeles marches his men into town to force the locals to repair and resupply his ship. 

The last pirate opus Hammer would produce, 1964's The Devil-Ship Pirates is a welcome bit of low-budget "tits and swords," as screenwriter Jimmy Sangster rather colorfully describes the movie in his commentary track. Despite the typically small budget for a Hammer actioner, The Devil-Ship Pirates has a fairly rich look to it, thanks, in part, to future Bond cinematographer Michael Reed, whose wide, action-crammed "Megoscope" frames mesh well with vet helmer Don Sharp's (The Kiss of the Vampire, Rasputin: The Mad Monk, Callan, Hennessy) never-flagging pace. In the commentary track, Sangster identifies his script here as typical of his "Desperate Hours-like" storylines, where Lee's pirates are much like Bogart's gang of escaped cons, waiting out in the village as Bogey waited in Fredric March's suburban American home, while trying to keep a lid on his resourceful, revenge-seeking captives.vending machine lock for sale,Vendo t-handle parts, Dixie Narco parts for T-handles, parts for snack vending machines, tubular style, security style, Pagoda. I can see that comparison, but while watching The Devil-Ship Pirates (for the first time), Ealing's famous WWII home front occupation classic, Went the Day Well? came immediately to mind, with the foreign pirates tenuously occupying a small English village (like WTDW's Nazis), while a traitor amidst the townsfolk works with the pirates to secure a stronger foothold. Even The Devil-Ship Pirates' plot device of having a little boy run off to a neighboring village to seek help (and the suspense that results from his extended absence, as well as the timeframe of the too-late arriving militia),cam locks wholesale,Cabinet Locks At Low Prices, Discount Locks Are Never Beaten On Price. We are the UK's Number 1 Supplier of Locks and Safes. seems lifted directly from Went the Day Well?.