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Drama: Action & Adventure

02/05/2003

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Swashbuckling adventure in which a crew of enslaved Dutch sailors escape and plot revenge.

Swashbuckling adventure in which a Spanish governor orders a crew of Dutch sailors to be enslaved and their captain hanged, but they escape and plot revenge. With Maureen O'Hara.

Early RKO Technicolor swashbuckling adventure. A Spanish governor ruthlessly orders a shipwrecked crew of Dutch sailors to be enslaved and their captain hanged. With the help of a smitten contessa and with typical courage, captain Laurent Van Horn and his crew escape and set out to wreak a fitting revenge on the villainous Don Alvarado.

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