Pirates

PIRATES opens with Capt. Red (Walter Matthau), a bearded, peg-legged pirate, and Frog (Cris Campion), a handsome French sailor, sailing on a tiny raft through the vast blue ocean. Soon they sight a Spanish galleon and manage to climb aboard, even though a mutiny is being put down by Don Alfonso (Damien Thomas) and his evil lieutenants. Red and Frog are tossed into the brig along with another prisoner (Olu Jacobs), who whets Red's greed by informing him that in the very next room sits a priceless gold Aztec throne that is being transported by Don Alfonso for the governor (Bill Fraser). While Red is contemplating ways to steal the throne, Frog is thinking of Dolores ...