The stunt people were terrified of Oliver Reed, due to his sheer ferocity when it came to fight scenes. He would often leap in without rehearsing. It got to the point where they would draw lots to see who would face him. Sir Christopher Lee recalled, "I remember during a fight scene he came at me with both hands on the sword, like an axe, and I parried it and stopped totally. I said, 'I think we'd better get the routine right.' Then I said to Oliver, 'Do you remember who taught you how to use a sword?' He said, 'You did.' And I said, 'Don't you forget it.' You see, I made La nave del diavolo (1964) with him for Hammer and he was a bit of a menace in that, quite frankly. People leapt out of the way when he had a fight, because he went at it absolutely flat out." Unless he was misquoted, this was a lapse in memory by Lee, as Reed did not appear in The Devil-Ship Pirates. However, Lee and Reed did appear in The Pirates of Blood River (1962), where the sword-fighting tutorial may well have occurred.

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