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Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.
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Directed by Edward Ludwig
John PayneDick Lindsay / Robert McAllister
Arlene DahlChristine Barclay McAllister
Cedric HardwickeCaptain Francis Barclay
Francis L. SullivanAndrew McAllister
Willard ParkerShively
Dennis HoeyBurford
Clarence MuseQuashy
William PullenRobert McAllister
Walter ReedEvansRamsay HillTownsend
John HartStuartZora DonahooElizabethImages · 4
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CinemaSerfSep 9, 2022
John Payne ("Dick Lindsay/Robert McAllister") is conscripted by pirate captain "Barclay" (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) to impersonate the nephew of his nemesis "McAllister" (Francis L. Sullivan). He must infiltrate his impregnable fortress headquarters so that he can enable it to be taken. Once there, though, he meets the feisty daughter "Christine" (Arlene Dahl) and after a rocky start they start to bond... This is a pretty predictable, if colourful, pirate yarn. Sullivan has a bit… Read more
of oomph to his character, but Hardwicke is just way too static, Payne a poor man's Louis Hayward and Dahl has none of the charisma of, say, Maureen O'Hara. If you like the genre (I do) then this passes 90-odd minutes, well enough - but it's little better than a standard afternoon feature with precious little action until the end, which itself is really rather disappointing..