Technicolor could take history, alter it to serve its own purpose and still make it palatable. All you had to do was take a supposed law-abiding citizen, make him not only more evil than the band of cut-throats he was out to capture, but also a brute to the leading lady. This made the pirates more sympathetic and forgivable. When the leading pirate is a handsome man and the citizen a portly bureaucrat, it is obvious where sympathy will lie.
Maureen O'Hara, whose red hair made her a natural for Technicolor, is superb as the noble woman engaged to aristocratic Walter Slezak (who also played a similar villain in "The Pirate"), yet ends up kidnapped by pirate Paul Heinreid. A rivalry grows between O'Hara and the real life female pirate Anne Romney, played here by Binnie Barnes, and results in a funny scene involving a gun duel. Action packed and exciting, this can't be called reality, but it sure is fun!
Maureen O'Hara, whose red hair made her a natural for Technicolor, is superb as the noble woman engaged to aristocratic Walter Slezak (who also played a similar villain in "The Pirate"), yet ends up kidnapped by pirate Paul Heinreid. A rivalry grows between O'Hara and the real life female pirate Anne Romney, played here by Binnie Barnes, and results in a funny scene involving a gun duel. Action packed and exciting, this can't be called reality, but it sure is fun!