Il grande colpo di Surcouf (1966)
Directed by Sergio Bergonzelli, Roy Rowland

Adventure

Film Synopsis

Robert Surcouf has abandoned his career as a corsair so that he can devote himself to his family.  But on the day his first son is baptised, he receives a message from the Emperor Napoléon.  He must travel to Mahé in the Seychelles and recover some confidential documents which risk falling into the hands of the English, who have recently taken the island.  Surcouf succeeds in destroying the compromising papers but he then learns that his brother has been taken prisoner by the English...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Sergio Bergonzelli, Roy Rowland
  • Script: José Antonio de la Loma, Guy Farrell (dialogue), Georges de La Grandière, Gerald Savery, Giovanni Simonelli, Jacques Séverac (story)
  • Cinematographer: Juan Gelpí
  • Music: Georges Garvarentz
  • Cast: Gérard Barray (Captain Robert Surcouf), Antonella Lualdi (Margaret Carruthers), Terence Morgan (Lord Blackwood), Geneviève Casile (Maria Cristina), Armand Mestral (Captain Fell), Gérard Tichy (Kernan), Alberto Cevenini (Garneray), Giani Esposito (Napoleon), Fernando Sancho (Jailer), Antonio Molino Rojo (André Chambles), Gonzalo Esquiroz (Captain Toward), George Rigaud (Admiral), Mónica Randall (Josephine), Rossella Bergamonti (Louise), Anne Vernon (Decrees), Virgilio Teixeira (Decrees), Ivano Staccioli (Decrees), Tomás Blanco (Decrees), Frank Oliveras (Nicolas), Aldo Sambrell (Sailor)
  • Country: Spain / Italy / France
  • Language: English
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 90 min

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