* BoxOfficeBomb: While the film's exact budget is unknown, its low gross of $1.9 million contributed to the belief that pirate movies were box-office poison, which was held for three decades before ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies started racking up money. It did, however, [[GoodBadBug put New Zealand on the map as a filming location]], according to Weta FX founder Richard Taylor.
* CaliforniaDoubling: Shot in New Zealand and Fiji.