Anne of the Indies (1951) - film review

In the 1700s, one of the most feared buccaneers of the high seas is Anne Providence, a protégée of the infamous Blackbeard.  When she sinks an English ship, she drowns the crew without a moment’s compunction, but spares one man, Pierre-François, a Frenchman being held captive in the hold.  When she learns that the Frenchman has one half of a treasure map and is desperate to find the other half, Anne offers to form an alliance with him.  What she doesn’t know is that Pierre-François is a British spy...

After the runaway success of The Flame and the Arrow (1950), 20th Century Fox offered director Jacques Tourneur the opportunity of making an another historical adventure film with a budget that was one of the largest he ever had to work with.  Whilst that film, Anne of the Indies, is certainly not amongst Tourneur’s best work, it is a mildly entertaining swashbuckling romp, although let down by some poor effects, a rather silly plot and the lack of charismatic lead actors.


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