Against All Flags

AGAINST ALL FLAGS opens in 1700 as Brian Hawke (Errol Flynn), a British naval officer, is being whipped before his shipmates. Shortly thereafter, he jumps overboard and swims to the shore of Madagascar. The flogging has been a ruse; Hawke is actually posing as a renegade so that he can infiltrate a pirate stronghold. Dragged before a pirate tribunal, he is challenged by Roc Brasiliano (Anthony Quinn), who demands that Hawke be put to death, but Spitfire Stevens (Maureen O'Hara), a fierce female buccaneer, comes to Hawke's defense. Hawke then joins Brasiliano's crew and takes part in a bloody raid against a ship sailing under the flag of the emperor of India, whose ...