Castello Aragonese, Ischia
Carlin Joe
A couple of weeks ago I was arguing about pirate movies with a friend (because that’s the sort thing friends argue about). He’d offered the ill-informed suggestion that the Pirates of the Caribbean movies would one day be considered classics of the genre. I agreed that the original Curse of the Black Pearl had some modest merit, but the rest should be burned and their ashes buried in the desert. Not one of them was even marginally as good as Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat in The Crimson Pirate. That movie is one hundred and five minutes of pure pirate pleasure.
You may be wondering why I’m nattering on about pirate movies. This is why: The Crimson Pirate was filmed on the island of Ischia, and the Castello Aragonese can be seen in the background of several scenes. This photo makes me happy as a photograph, but it makes me absolutely giddy knowing where it was shot.
To me, this is pirate country. And as Captain Vallo, the Crimson Pirate, would say, “Remember, in a pirate ship, in pirate waters, in a pirate world, ask no questions. Believe only what you see. No, believe half of what you see.”
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