The first Sandokan novel was adapted for the silver screen in 1941: I pirati della Malesia starring Luigi Pavese as Sandokan. Though it did well enough in Europe and Latin America to spawn a sequel, it failed to make much of an impression in the US. In 1955 Lex Barker appeared as the tiger hunter Tremal-Naik in the B-movie The Mystery of the Black Jungle. It was popular throughout Italy and Latin America and subsequently remade as El Corsario Negro by Chano Urueta in Mexico in the 1940s. Ships were built specifically for the movie, the director filming a live boarding raid on location. Amleto Palermi's 1936 version spared no expense.
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In the 1920s Vitale De Stefano made a series of silent films based on Il Corsaro Nero and it's four sequels. Salgari's Corsair adventures have been the basis for over 20 films, including 8 adaptations of The Black Corsair. Just as Hollywood had its pirate swashbuckling era in the 20s, 30s and 40s, the early days of the Italian film industry brought many a high sea adventure to the screen. The majority of Salgari's big screen adaptations were taken from the pirate tales he had so skilfully brought to life. It would be the first of many films based on his work. Griffith, Eisenstein, De Mille and others.
It pioneered epic screen production, camera movements, and foreshadowed the work of D.W.
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The three-hour movie with its grand proportions and cast of thousands created a sensation throughout Italy. Gabriele D'Annunzio was billed as the official screenwriter, but D'Annunzio had been brought on board to help revise the film after it had been shot, earning the credit by changing the title to Cabiria, changing the name of some of the characters and rewriting the captions, using more grandiloquent expressions than those originally employed by Pastrone. Salgari had never been employed or credited as a writer however, it is evident that scenes and plot points had been 'borrowed' from his novel. Cabiria the landmark Italian epic directed by Giovanni Pastrone bears many similarities to Emilio Salgari's 1908 adventure novel Cartagine in Fiamme (Carthage is Burning). Salgari 's tales have had quite an impact on film and television.
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