Wissenswertes

Piraten von Tortuga (1961) relies primarily upon grainy mismatched stock footage from Der Seeräuber (1942) and Die Piratenkönigin (1951) enlarged and cropped to widescreen CinemaScope ratio.

At the opening of Jamaica scene (#10 - A Pirate's Liberty, in the DVD), there are inserts of two bar girls in a slap fight and a scene of bear wrestling, taken from Die Piratenkönigin (1951).

Rafer Johnson, who played John Gammel, was the Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon in 1960.

Piraten von Tortuga (1961) is a 1961 DeLuxe Cinemascope American swashbuckler film which invented an alternate history for the actual Welsh privateer Henry Morgan.

Piraten von Tortuga (1961) was shot entirely on the Fox back-lot in Los Angeles, using the water tank that had been created for the TV series Adventures in Paradise (1959). Rafer Johnson later recalled filming scenes of steering the boat "as a lot of fun, as were the scenes of fencing and hand to hand combat."