The first Sandokan novel was adapted for the silver screen in 1941: I pirati della Malesia starring Luigi Pavese as Sandokan. Le due Tigri followed a year later. Twenty years later, legendary Hollywood body builder, Steve Reeves would take on the role and give North America its first glimpse of the Malay pirate in the 1963 MGM film Sandokan the Great, doing well enough at the box office to spawn a sequel, The Pirates of The Seven Seas, the following year. Two more movies were made in the mid 1960s starring Ray Danton: Sandokan Fights Back and Sandokan versus the Leopard of Sarawak. 
However, it wasn't until 1976, when three European production houses united to create a 6-part TV miniseries based on Mr. Salgari's novels, that the quintessential Sandokan was found. 
The first comic book adaptations of Salgari's works began to appear in the mid 1940s and have continued intermittently until present day. Hugo Pratt added to the Sandokan comic book canon in the mid 1960s with his version of The Pirates of Malaysia. In 1977, at the height of the Bedi Sandokan phenomenon, Walt Disney published Sandopaper e la Perla di Labuan (Sanduckan and the Pearl of Labuan) a wildly-popular parody that has been in print ever since. In 2018, Star Comics published a series of comics based on the Sandokan saga. 
The 1990s saw the birth of the first Sandokan animated series. BBI in Spain transformed the legendary pirate into a tiger leading a band of pirates comprised of assorted cartoon animals. The series was quite popular throughout Europe. A few years later Italy's state-owned television, RAI, produced three animated series with Italian production house Mondo TV. You can find the enitre animated series on YouTube in both Italian and English. Check out our animation page for links.The Sandokan Series
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