Morgan the Pirate

More brisk action from Hollywood director Andre De Toth, his hero (Steve Reeves, title character) demonstrating how slaves can take a Spanish galleon, somewhere off Panama, ca. 1670, in the Italian-financed Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

Broad set-piece by Hollywood veteran director Andre De Toth, working in Rome with Italian financing, as the governor (Ivo Garrani) oversees an execution in Panama, ca. 1670, his daughter (Valérie Lagrange) clearly hoping her former slave (Steve Reeves, title character) will luck out, in producer Joseph E. Levine’s Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

Opening from Hollywood renegades, producer Joseph E. Levine and director Andre De Toth, working in Italy, cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli, brings French Valérie Lagrange (about 18 at the time!) and her attendant Lydia Alfonsi to the slave market in Panama where the main attraction, Steve Reeves, the title character, looks buff, in Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

We meet Chelo Alonso, highly promoted in the credits, appearing in her second Italian-made feature with leading man Steve Reeves, as barmaid Consuela, beholden apparently to pirate L’Olannais (Armand Mestral), who receives the hero, with his new pirate crew, in time to rescue hostages Valérie Lagrange and Lydia Alfonso, in Morgan The Pirate, 1960.

Steve Reeves flexes his muscles as Morgan The Pirate (1961), the British raider of the 17th Century.