The kind of movie they used to make before they stopped making them like that any more, this is a rip-roaring tale of swashbuckling, buccaneering and damsel-wooing. Tyrone Power stars in the sort of role normally reserved for Errol Flynn or Douglas Fairbanks Jr, playing a reformed sea wolf whose former partner in piracy (Laird Cregar) is made governor of Jamaica. They join forces to rid the neighbourhood of assorted rogues and one-eyed knaves. Much swordplay - plus intermittent courtship of Maureen O'Hara by Power - ensues, all captured by the Oscar-winning colour cinematography of Leon Shamroy.

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.