Trivia

Les corsaires de Tortuga (1961) relies primarily upon grainy mismatched stock footage from Le cygne noir (1942) and La flibustière des Antilles (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 La flibustière des Antilles (1951).

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

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

Les corsaires de 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 Aventures dans les îles (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."