A Rainha dos Piratas

In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.

This is a fairly routine Italian pirate film punctuated by a few action pieces and some interesting villainy - interesting point of that is that a beautiful blonde (Scilla Gabel) whispers horrible nothings - advice - to her father, the Duke. She seems to have more brains than him and quite a schemer. But it's Gianna Maria Canale who shivers my timbers as the heroine of the piece who wields a fair blade - actually she's quite nifty with a blade. She's the best thing here, making this film bearable, not that it's bad - it passes the time well enough and the climax is quite well done with some action and revelation regarding the Queen of the pirates true birth right.