The Masked Man Against the Pirates

There's more wine, women & song than swordplay in this bargain basement pirate adventure whose title already betrays it's conclusion as it mixes genres with the introduction of a masked avenger in tights who proves to be more than a mere rumour to join forces with Tony Kendall to see off rascally Captain Garcia and his crew of cutthroats

Perhaps because they were making it up as they went along there are - as seems to be the case with most cheap swashbucklers - an awful lot of writers credited with the script. On this occasion the total is four, including director Vertunnio DeAngelis, whose budget presumably didn't extend to a continuity girl to point out the frequent disconcerting shifts within scenes between night and day.

No prizes for guessing who the man in the mask turns out to be. Claude Dantes as the princess held captive wears a long wig that renders her unrecognisable as the pixie-haired victim found dead in the bath tub in 'Blood and Black Lace'.