Untamable Angelique

Angélique follows the trace of her former husband, count Peyrac, who is now living with pirates in a hiding-place somewhere on a Mediterranean island. He seems to turn into a kindred spirit of Captain Nemo, inventing a diving bell, hiding from the rest of the world, but with the political aim to do as much damage to the King's fleet as possible. Angélique, however, is captured by other pirates who intend to sell her at the slave-market...

This movie was cut down to 80 minutes in my country, which is 20 minutes shorter than each of the previous episodes and 15 minutes shorter than the original version. That might indicate that a little less care was spent by the distributors on the contents, as long as the money kept coming. I suppose it wasn't censorship, because even the edited version contains a rape scene on a pirate ship and some nudity in the slave-market scene; actually this is the only episode of the series which may seem to cross the border from historical fantasy to exploitation sometimes. Talking of exploitation, I spotted a familiar face from many Jess Franco movies: Paul Muller has an appearance as a Maltese Knight, uncredited. I voted 8/6/7/6/6 for the 5 movies of the series.