It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway. Along the way we are treated to sea battles, blood-thirsty cannibals, and wall-to-wall action.—Score_The_Film ([email protected])
Set in the 1790s somewhere in the South Seas British Naval Officer, Commander Redway, arrives with his men on the island of Freeland to collect the annual tribute (in the form of pearls) to England.Once ashore, Redway, his second in command, David Robinson, and their men meet with the island'srepresentative, Errol Robinson. David instantly recognizes Errol as his father and it turns outDavid has a brother, Gary, he hasn't seen since he was a baby.
Errol explains to Redway that the pearls set aside for the tribute were sold to buy steel nets toprotect them from the sharks in the area where the pearls can be found. Redway forces theislanders, including David's family, to harvest more pearls without the net to gather enough pearlsfor the tribute. Naturally, it's dangerous with the sharks in the area and when Gary protests he isplaced under arrest.
Gary is taken aboard Redway's ship and is whipped. David, having enough of this abuse on hisbrother, sets him free and holds the soldiers at bay whild Gary jumps ship and swims back to theisland. Now David is arrested and chained to the large rocks on the shore where, when high tidesapproaches, he will drown. Luckily a pirate ship, led by Captain Bernard (with a former Bank ofEngland employee that now serves as the official pirate banker, Hornblut), arrives and fires uponthe British soldiers. Once the pirates land they take David prisoner, recognizing him as an officerof the ship that had once attacked their ship.
Now the pirates are off to their secret island of Quantral. On the island Bernard's daughter,Jennifer, takes a liking to David and, out of pity, unshackles him so he can eat. He overcomes herand forces her to take him to her father. David tells Bernard he has a plan to get Redway's ship inexchange for half the booty. Bernard agrees.
David swims to Redway's ship and disables the rudder. Jennifer, not trusting David, swims to theship to make sure David did his job and she is captured and taken prisoner by Redway. We discover,as Redway talks to his native girl love slave, Nike, that he has been sailing on behalf of Englandfor seven years and has spent all of the money he's collected for England and his only objective isto collect/steal as much money as possible and retire next year to London.
Bernard goes after Redway to save his daughter and to seek revenge. He eventually catches up toRedway and attacks his ship. Meanwhile, Redway and a few of his men escape with some of thetreasure in a dingy and returns to Freeland.
David makes his way back to Freeland to discover his father has been killed and that Redway hastaken Gary prisoner and has managed to make their way to Grantsville, an English military islandbase. David follows and allows himself to be captured in exchange for his brother's freedom.
After an unsuccessful attempt at torturing David to get the information about the secret pirateisland, Quantral, Redway allows Nike to use her feminine ways to get what he wants. She's having adifficult time, too, until she drugs David's drink that puts him under enough that he'll answeranything she asks him. Naturally, he tells her but is unaware. When he awakens she assures himthat he told her nothing. Now she goes to Redway and gives him the location of Quantral. Redwaylocks David up to die, goes to Quantral and attacks the island eventually forcing the pirates tosurrender.
Redway only wants the pirate treasure and soon discovers that the treasure has been taken to anearby island inhabited by the cannibal tribe, Carbi. Redway shoots Bernard and makes his way tothe island. They find the trail of the treasure when they come accross the bodies of the pirateswho came before them. When one of Redway's men is killed by an arrow in the neck, Redway retreatsback to the ship. Nike tells him that she's half Carbi (from her mother) and that she can't go backbecause she's been banished by the tribe for shacking up with a white man (by the way, she's veryEuropean in very dark brown makeup) but she knows how Redway can get the treasure. All he needs todo is arrange to sell some of the pirate prisoners to the Carbi in exchange for the pearls.
Redway takes ten prisoners to the island. David, in an adjoining cell, fears for Jennifer's life and strangles a guard through the bars and frees himself. He finds Nike and forces her to tell himwhere Jennifer and the rest of the prisoners went. He makes his way to the island. Redway gets hispearls and the newly sold slaves are tied to a giant bush-like man-eating tree as a human sacrifice.David sets them free.
Back on Quantral the pirates want to hang David for betraying them but David talks them out of itand into letting him lead the pirates to go after Redway who's on his way back to Grantsville withthe treasure. David, in chains with some other pirate prisoners, is led by a small group of Britishsoldiers which we soon discover are pirates in disguise. Once inside the British base they attack.
Redway just wants to escape to London with the treasure so he kills Nike when she trys to force himto take her with him. David finds her and in her dying moments tells him where the secret passageway is where Redway escaped through. David makes chase and confronts Redway and his men. Davidkills the soldiers leaving only Redway. The fight it out with giant harpoons. When Redway sees theopportunity of escape he runs through a giant gateway only to be crushed by the iron gate as Davidkicks the mechanism that drops it.
A new British Commander has taken over in the dead Redway's place and has declared freedom for thepirates and they are free to thrive in peace on Quantral. Life is beautiful.
