Colorful but tedious (until near the end), this is another one of those pirate movies that is fun to watch for the action and fake sets and period costumes but not much else. Walter Barnes is a pirate ship's captain, rowtound in the memory of other pirate ship captains (Charles Laughton, Wallace Beery, Walter Slezak, Robert Newton), and thus a jolly fat man even if he is a brutal killer. He's basically playing a George Arliss type part, the doddering old man assisting young lovers Richard Harrison and Michèle Mercier but dealing with British ship captain Roldano Lupi who wants Harrison clapped in irons.
A Caucausian actress is in dark makeup, obviously dark from above the neck, and light elsewhere. She reminded me of Delta Burke in her makeup on the "Designing Women" episode where she pretended to be a Supreme. Then there are the ridiculous looking native costumes, looking like the straw man from "The Wizard of Oz" had exploded. After a while, I just gave up on the movie for a story and just enjoyed noting how bad it was. But nothing that happened in the first 70 minutes prepared me for the delightful silliness of the flesh-eating plants that appear near the end. I put the time in so you will know after a certain point of watching it not to drink even a sip because you will definitely be doing a spit-take if you do.
A Caucausian actress is in dark makeup, obviously dark from above the neck, and light elsewhere. She reminded me of Delta Burke in her makeup on the "Designing Women" episode where she pretended to be a Supreme. Then there are the ridiculous looking native costumes, looking like the straw man from "The Wizard of Oz" had exploded. After a while, I just gave up on the movie for a story and just enjoyed noting how bad it was. But nothing that happened in the first 70 minutes prepared me for the delightful silliness of the flesh-eating plants that appear near the end. I put the time in so you will know after a certain point of watching it not to drink even a sip because you will definitely be doing a spit-take if you do.