Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances's most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. She is also a pirate, working to restore the fortune the French took from her. When Kit is captured by the governor of Cartagena, Luis del Toro, Rouge demands that he be hanged for piracy. Only one person knows it, but Kit is the governor's son.—Les Adams
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Sterling Hayden is hilariously miscast as a wavy, golden haired pirate in this routine swashbuckler. The film is mainly of interest because of the very odd casting of Hayden to play a smiling, giddy privateer (ALA Errol Flynn), but the film itself is pretty forgettable.
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