The Merry War of Captain Pedro (German: Der lustige Krieg des Hauptmann Pedro) is a 1959 West German historical comedy film directed by Wolfgang Becker and starring Carlos Thompson, Corny Collins and Boy Gobert. It was shot in Agfacolor at the Bendestorf Studios near Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, during the reign of Leopold I, a tax revolt breaks out in the Habsburg Empire. The Emperor needing cash to fund his foreign war has imposed a demand a levy of 5,000 thalers on the small town of Trutzingen, but the locals refuse to pay. The dashing soldier Pedro Bastiano is sent in with troops to impose the levy, but he prefers holdings parties and dances to forcing the money from the locals, and falls in love with a local woman. His young daughter also forms a romantic attachment of her own.