The picture gets Western action , crossfire , Indian attacks , romance , and results to be entertaining , but mediocre . It set in the 19th century in a town called Nininger on the banks of the Mississippi River where several ships sail to the bustling city of New Orleans . Nininger town reunites gunfighters , desperadoes , as well as killings , vice , drinking , crimes and corruption . Then , the sheriff is killed and is appointed a new marshal , our starring : James Lively (Ansjörg Felmy) and as a deputy Tom Cook (Brad Harris) . Meanwhile , a bunch of outlaws led by a villain officer called Kelly (Horst Frank) live on an island in the river , from there they attack rafts , robbing them of their cargo and killing the crews . Thus , the heinous band supported by Cherokee Indians assault a steamboat called ¨Von Buren¨ from Union Barge Line . Soon after , townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the murdering and rid themselves of the pirates and their ominous chief . As daring Sheriff James Lively attempts to seek peace and justice and to return tranquillity and calmness that characterized the town.
A German/Italian Western based upon the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker , it results to be an oater plenty of action , thrills , gun-play , in a word : emotion . Besides , it contains effective action sequences as when the Indian raids on the town and over a steamboat . As our protagonist has to confront a lot of bandits at a dangerous area plagued by a gang of pirates who operate raids on passing ships and traders rafts , the cutthroats are under the leadership of a nasty Captain , the ordinary baddie Horst Frank . It's a medium budget film with passable actors , technicians, production values and ordinary results . Of course , there are ritual shootouts among gunslingers confronting each other in some quick-draw duels in the accepted Western movie fashion . This is an average Spaghetti/Snitchzel Western with some moments genuinely entertaining if you can avoid thinking too much . Being realized in the wake of ¨Karl May's Winnetou and Old Surehand¨ series , a lot of movies produced in the sixties by the powerful German company ¨Constantin Films¨ , starred by Pierre Brice , Lex Barker , and Stewart Granger . In fact , in "The Pirates of Mississippi" there is even an Indian chief called Black Eagle dressed in similar style to Winnetou/Pierre Brice . It stars an unknown German actor Hansjörg Felmy and other unpopular players. And the American Brad Harris who began doing stunt work , in the late 50s he traveled to Europe and he soon found himself working in Musclemen epics such as ¨Sansone¨ , ¨Goliath against the giants¨ , ¨Fury of Hércules¨ and he eventually moved into Spaghetti Western and spy movies , Brad Harris married the beautiful Olga Schoberová , Olinka Berova , a Czech sex-symbol who played a lot of films with him . And supported by another Musclemen , Dan Vadis , who here suffers a deadly quicksand ; Dan starred several Péplum as "Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors" , "Colossus of the Arena" , "The Ten Gladiators" , ¨Spartacus and ¨the Ten Gladiators" until his early death at 49 . Other secondaries appearing are Tony Kendall who played various S.W. and Luigi Batzella as an astute paralytic judge ; Luigi , usually under pseudonym¨: Paolo Solvay , directed numerous Z-films .
This Die Flußpiraten Vom Mississippi¨ belongs an abundant group of German Westerns or co-productions , usually shot in Germany , Spain or Yugoslavia and habitually starred by some faded American actors , such as : ¨Alla Conquista dell'Arkansas or Conquerors of Arkansas¨ by Paul Martin also starred by Brad Harris , Horst Frank ; ¨Sien Nanten Ihn Gringo¨ (65) by Roy Rowland with Alexandra Stewart ; ¨La Lunga Strada Della Vendetta or Der Letzle Ritt Nach Santa Cruz¨ (64) by Rof Olsen with Edmund Purdom ; ¨7 Donne Per Una Strage¨ by Gianfranco Parolini and Rudolf Zehetgruber with Anne Baxter , ¨Sfida a Glory City¨ (65) by Sheldon Reynols with Lex Barker , ¨Last Mohican¨ (1965) by Harald Reinl and ¨Massacre at Condor Pass¨ (1976) by Peter Schamoni with Stephen Boyd .
The picture displays a resounding and inappropriate musical score by Willy Mattes . This European produced Western titled "Die Flußpiraten Vom Mississippi" (original title) or "The Pirates of Mississippi" was middlingly directed by Jurgen Roland , a craftsman who directed all kind of genres , and especially ¨Krimis¨ (Edward Wallace adaptations) such as : ¨The Strange Countess¨, ¨The Green archer¨ , "The Black Panther of Ratana" , "Destination Death" , and "The Crimson Circle"
A German/Italian Western based upon the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker , it results to be an oater plenty of action , thrills , gun-play , in a word : emotion . Besides , it contains effective action sequences as when the Indian raids on the town and over a steamboat . As our protagonist has to confront a lot of bandits at a dangerous area plagued by a gang of pirates who operate raids on passing ships and traders rafts , the cutthroats are under the leadership of a nasty Captain , the ordinary baddie Horst Frank . It's a medium budget film with passable actors , technicians, production values and ordinary results . Of course , there are ritual shootouts among gunslingers confronting each other in some quick-draw duels in the accepted Western movie fashion . This is an average Spaghetti/Snitchzel Western with some moments genuinely entertaining if you can avoid thinking too much . Being realized in the wake of ¨Karl May's Winnetou and Old Surehand¨ series , a lot of movies produced in the sixties by the powerful German company ¨Constantin Films¨ , starred by Pierre Brice , Lex Barker , and Stewart Granger . In fact , in "The Pirates of Mississippi" there is even an Indian chief called Black Eagle dressed in similar style to Winnetou/Pierre Brice . It stars an unknown German actor Hansjörg Felmy and other unpopular players. And the American Brad Harris who began doing stunt work , in the late 50s he traveled to Europe and he soon found himself working in Musclemen epics such as ¨Sansone¨ , ¨Goliath against the giants¨ , ¨Fury of Hércules¨ and he eventually moved into Spaghetti Western and spy movies , Brad Harris married the beautiful Olga Schoberová , Olinka Berova , a Czech sex-symbol who played a lot of films with him . And supported by another Musclemen , Dan Vadis , who here suffers a deadly quicksand ; Dan starred several Péplum as "Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors" , "Colossus of the Arena" , "The Ten Gladiators" , ¨Spartacus and ¨the Ten Gladiators" until his early death at 49 . Other secondaries appearing are Tony Kendall who played various S.W. and Luigi Batzella as an astute paralytic judge ; Luigi , usually under pseudonym¨: Paolo Solvay , directed numerous Z-films .
This Die Flußpiraten Vom Mississippi¨ belongs an abundant group of German Westerns or co-productions , usually shot in Germany , Spain or Yugoslavia and habitually starred by some faded American actors , such as : ¨Alla Conquista dell'Arkansas or Conquerors of Arkansas¨ by Paul Martin also starred by Brad Harris , Horst Frank ; ¨Sien Nanten Ihn Gringo¨ (65) by Roy Rowland with Alexandra Stewart ; ¨La Lunga Strada Della Vendetta or Der Letzle Ritt Nach Santa Cruz¨ (64) by Rof Olsen with Edmund Purdom ; ¨7 Donne Per Una Strage¨ by Gianfranco Parolini and Rudolf Zehetgruber with Anne Baxter , ¨Sfida a Glory City¨ (65) by Sheldon Reynols with Lex Barker , ¨Last Mohican¨ (1965) by Harald Reinl and ¨Massacre at Condor Pass¨ (1976) by Peter Schamoni with Stephen Boyd .
The picture displays a resounding and inappropriate musical score by Willy Mattes . This European produced Western titled "Die Flußpiraten Vom Mississippi" (original title) or "The Pirates of Mississippi" was middlingly directed by Jurgen Roland , a craftsman who directed all kind of genres , and especially ¨Krimis¨ (Edward Wallace adaptations) such as : ¨The Strange Countess¨, ¨The Green archer¨ , "The Black Panther of Ratana" , "Destination Death" , and "The Crimson Circle"