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Anne of the Indies
Anne of the Indies is a 1951 Technicolor swashbuckler adventure film released by Twentieth Century-Fox and starring stars Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan and Debra Paget. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by George Jessel.
After seizing a British ship, pirate captain Anne Providence spares LaRochelle, a Frenchman captured by the British, from walking the plank. LaRochelle agrees to join Providence's crew and she soon begins to fall in love with him.
They travel to an island where they meet with her pirate mentor Captain Blackbeard, who dislikes LaRochelle. Blackbeard realizes that he had seen LaRochelle in the French navy when a pirate was hanged. LaRochelle claims he was dismissed from the navy. Anne believes LaRochelle, but when Blackbeard attacks him, she defends him and sends Blackbeard and his men away.
LaRochelle is working for the British as they have captured his ship, and he has a wife. He betrays Anne to the British, who attack her ship. She escapes and takes his wife as a hostage. The British do not return LaRochelle's ship to him, having failed to capture Anne as planned, so he acquires a ship to pursue Anne. In the confrontation that follows, LaRochelle's ship is destroyed and he is captured.
Anne maroons LaRochelle and his wife on a remote island to die. She sails away, but a few days later, her conscience compels her to return with provisions and a small boat. As she does so, she is attacked by Blackbeard, and instead of fleeing, she remains and fights to stop Blackbeard from finding LaRochelle, although her ship is no match. As Anne, the last survivor of her crew, challenges Blackbeard to a final duel, she is killed by a final, deadly salvo from the enemy ship before Blackbeard can stop his cannoneers. Watching the disaster unfold, LaRochelle and his wife pay tribute to Anne's sacrifice.
The film is based on a short story published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1947 by historical-fiction author Herbert Sass, who received requests from publishers and studios to write a film treatment of the story. In 1948, he offered a fictionalized version of the true story of Anne Bonny, including a 10-page "factual basis" for the story. However, the final film bears little resemblance to Sass's story.
In February 1948, Walter Wanger bought the screen rights to the story as a vehicle for Susan Hayward, whom Wanger had under contract, reportedly at Hayward's request. Wanger hired Jan Fortune to write a script and announced that the film, also known as Queen of the Pirates, would be produced later that year for Eagle Lion. The film was the second of a four-film deal between Wanger and Eagle Lion following Tulsa (1949).
In August 1948, Wanger announced his decision to shelve the film, as he believed that its estimated budget of $1.5 million was excessive.
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Anne of the Indies
Anne of the Indies is a 1951 Technicolor swashbuckler adventure film released by Twentieth Century-Fox and starring stars Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan and Debra Paget. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by George Jessel.
After seizing a British ship, pirate captain Anne Providence spares LaRochelle, a Frenchman captured by the British, from walking the plank. LaRochelle agrees to join Providence's crew and she soon begins to fall in love with him.
They travel to an island where they meet with her pirate mentor Captain Blackbeard, who dislikes LaRochelle. Blackbeard realizes that he had seen LaRochelle in the French navy when a pirate was hanged. LaRochelle claims he was dismissed from the navy. Anne believes LaRochelle, but when Blackbeard attacks him, she defends him and sends Blackbeard and his men away.
LaRochelle is working for the British as they have captured his ship, and he has a wife. He betrays Anne to the British, who attack her ship. She escapes and takes his wife as a hostage. The British do not return LaRochelle's ship to him, having failed to capture Anne as planned, so he acquires a ship to pursue Anne. In the confrontation that follows, LaRochelle's ship is destroyed and he is captured.
Anne maroons LaRochelle and his wife on a remote island to die. She sails away, but a few days later, her conscience compels her to return with provisions and a small boat. As she does so, she is attacked by Blackbeard, and instead of fleeing, she remains and fights to stop Blackbeard from finding LaRochelle, although her ship is no match. As Anne, the last survivor of her crew, challenges Blackbeard to a final duel, she is killed by a final, deadly salvo from the enemy ship before Blackbeard can stop his cannoneers. Watching the disaster unfold, LaRochelle and his wife pay tribute to Anne's sacrifice.
The film is based on a short story published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1947 by historical-fiction author Herbert Sass, who received requests from publishers and studios to write a film treatment of the story. In 1948, he offered a fictionalized version of the true story of Anne Bonny, including a 10-page "factual basis" for the story. However, the final film bears little resemblance to Sass's story.
In February 1948, Walter Wanger bought the screen rights to the story as a vehicle for Susan Hayward, whom Wanger had under contract, reportedly at Hayward's request. Wanger hired Jan Fortune to write a script and announced that the film, also known as Queen of the Pirates, would be produced later that year for Eagle Lion. The film was the second of a four-film deal between Wanger and Eagle Lion following Tulsa (1949).
In August 1948, Wanger announced his decision to shelve the film, as he believed that its estimated budget of $1.5 million was excessive.