Les Pirates de Malaisie

Original title: I pirati della Malesia

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Steve Reeves in Les Pirates de Malaisie (1964)

Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.

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Steve Reeves

Sandokan

Jacqueline Sassard

Hada

Mimmo Palmara

Tremal-Naïk

Andrea Bosic

Yanez

Nando Gazzolo

Il tenente Clinton

Leo Anchóriz

Lord James Brook
(as Leo Anchoris)

Franco Balducci

Sambigliong

Pierre Cressoy

Il capitano della 'Young India'

Giuseppe Addobbati

Muda Hassin

Nando Angelini

L'ufficiale britannico
(as Nando Angelini C.S.C.)

Dakar

Kammamuuri
(as Alejandro Barrera Dakar)

Domenico Cianfriglia

Un pirata

George Wang

Sho Fang

Sujata Rubener

Una ballerina
(as Sujata)

Asoka Rubener

Una ballerina
(as Asoka)

Fortunato Arena

Un' ufficiale britannico
(uncredited)

Wilbert Bradley

Aristide Catoni

Un marinaio
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Not submitted to the British Board of Film Censors by any distributor, this became the first Steve Reeves epic not to be released in UK cinemas. However, it was purchased by the ITV network in 1988 and they were contracted to show it three times per region from 1 October 1988 to 30 September 1995. Billed as The Pirates of Malaysia (a direct translation from the Italian) and dubbed, HTV West screened the UK premiere on 13 November 1989. After touring the regions, the film's final transmission was for London ITV on 25 September 1995, after which it disappeared for 28 years. Talking Pictures TV started screening the movie again from 8 July 2023 under the title Sandokan: Pirate of Malaysia.

Goofs
During the firing squad scene at the beginning of the film, the two officers supervising the execution are standing by a table about 10 meters directly behind the prisoners tied to wooden stakes. It's a good job the men firing squad were all good shots as obviously this is an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Connections
Featured in Kolossal - i magnifici Macisti (1977)

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3/10

Confusing to say the least

I couldn't work out when this was supposed to be set, because it contained such a weird selection of artifacts and weapons.

Apart from the magical machine gun on a little railway truck - which seemed to fire forever, without feeding any cartridges into the breech, there was the significant quantity of Number 4 Lee Enfield rifles, which weren't manufactured until after the beginning of WW2 in 1940.

Considering that the original novel was written in 1883, that stretches the timeline way beyond the bounds of credibility.

The dubbing is at times hilarious, and occasionally disappears altogether - with sections reverting to Italian, before slipping back into comedic English.

On an extremely wet day, with precious little else on TV, this rescued me from listening to the raindrops bouncing off my roof tiles.