''White Slave Ship'' is a 1961 film directed by Silvio Amadio and starring

Pier Angeli Pier Angeli (19 June 193210 September 1971), also credited under her real name, Anna Maria Pierangeli, was an Italian-born television and film actress who starred in American, British and European films throughout her career. Her American motio ...

and

Edmund Purdom Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 19241 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then in America on Broadway and in Hollywood, and event ...

. Titled ''L'ammutinamento'' on its original Italian release, it was released in the United States in 1962.''White Slave Ship''
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Plot

Set in 1675, the film was about a group of convicts being transported from London to the New World as white slaves aboard the ship Albatross, captained by Isaac Cooper (Ivan Desny). Among the convicts held in chains below decks are Doctor Robert Bradley, a political prisoner being transported to the American colonies for treating a wounded rebel (Purdom); Polly, a prostitute (Pier Angeli) and a murderer, Calico Jack (Armand Mestral). Above decks and living in comparative luxury are an upper class English family, the Medford's, including their beautiful daughter Anna (Michele Girardon). Halfway across the Atlantic; the prisoners escape and take over the ship. Robert Bradley saves Anna's life and, despite their very different stations in life, the two gradually fall in love.

Cast

as Polly *

as Dr. Robert Bradley * Armand Mestral as Calico Jack *

Ivan Desny Ivan Desny (born Ivan Nikolaevich Desnitskij; 28 December 1922 – 13 April 2002) was a Chinese-born actor of Russian descent. Early life Desny was born in Peking, China. Career Desny was a film actor. Bilingual in French and German, he acted ...

as Captain Isaac Cooper *

Michèle Girardon Michèle Girardon (9 August 1938 – 25 March 1975), sometimes credited as Michele Girardon, was a French actress. Career Born in Lyon, France, Girardon began acting as early as 1956, and had a small but noticeable role as a deaf-mute bea ...

as Anna Medford *

Mirko Ellis Mirko Ellis (4 September 1923 – 11 September 2014) was a Swiss-Italian film, stage and television actor. Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin, Ellis moved, after his studies, to Italy, where he made his film debut i ...

as Lord Graveston *

Lee Madden Lee Madden (born Leon Blank, March 6, 1927 – April 9, 2009) was an American film and television director. He is known for directing the biker film, ''Hell's Angels '69'', starring the original Oakland Hell's Angels. His other films include an ...

as Doctor Who

Production

''White Slave Ship'', a 1961 French-Italian co-production in TotalScope and Eastman Color, was purchased by American International Pictures in 1962, who dubbed the film into English and replaced the original music score by Angelo Lavagnino with one by Les Baxter. AIP released it in ColorScope and Pathe Color.

References

External links

* 1961 films English-language Italian films Films directed by Silvio Amadio Seafaring films Films set in the 1670s Cultural depictions of Calico Jack 1960s English-language films 1960s Italian films {{1960s-Italy-film-stub