''Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera'' (''Franco, Ciccio and Blackbeard the Pirate'') is a 1969 Italian

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directed by

Mario Amendola Mario Natalino Concetto Amendola (8 December 1910 – 22 December 1993) was an Italian screenwriter, film director and dramatist. Biography Amendola was born in Recco, which is located in Genova to parents from Rome. He began his career o ...

starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. It is a

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of the 1883 adventure novel '' Treasure Island'' of Scottish author

Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...

Plot

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, 1700: Franco is the illegitimate son of a pirate who died at sea, and now he works as a waiter in a tavern. Ciccio is an unfortunate Capitan Black who tries to bring up his image as that of a great bloody killer. The two meet in a ship, where Franco discovers a map where there are directions to a mysterious island, the location of the buried treasure of the notorious pirate Flint. Ciccio then proposes to recruit a crew, and so doesn't realize that between the hubs and the people of the sea enters the dreaded pirate

Blackbeard Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he ma ...

, who is seeking revenge, because years ago he helped Flint earning the coveted treasure...

Cast

* Franco Franchi as Franco * Ciccio Ingrassia as Capitan Black * Fernando Sancho as

the Pirate * Mimmo Palmara as Flint the Pirate * Pietro Tordi as Johnson the Pirate * Rosita Torosh as Aluna * Umberto D'Orsi as Creditor of Capitan Black * Enzo Andronico as Cane Nero * Ignazio Balsamo as pirate Manolo

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* 1969 films 1960s adventure comedy films 1960s buddy comedy films 1960s parody films Films set in 1700 Films set in England Films directed by Mario Amendola Italian buddy comedy films Italian adventure comedy films Treasure Island films 1969 comedy films Films scored by Roberto Pregadio 1960s Italian films Cultural depictions of Blackbeard 1960s Italian-language films Italian-language adventure comedy films {{1960s-Italy-comedy-film-stub