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Synopsis

In the 19th century, aboard the Falmouth, a number of sailors mutiny, killing the captain Maxwell - allegedly too harsh in his ways - and knocking out the pilot and other sailors. One-Eye Jack nominates himself the new captain, and after a bit of commemoration of the event with rum, discovers that he can't navigate to Batavia for a career of piracy in the East Indies, because both the captain and the second-in-command are dead, and the navigator, Dan Robinson, had escaped in a paddling boat while the mutineers were commemorating with rum.

The sea currents lead the pilot to an uncharted island in the South Pacific, where Robinson sees an Easter Island-type statue, and seeks shelter in a cave in the cliffs overlooking the beach. In the cave, he finds a good-sized cache of weapons, powder, and ammunition, along with the skeleton of a Spanish naval officer and his ship's log. The log isn't terribly helpful on the details, but it does establish that something on the island is fierce and deadly.

Robinson gets to see just what that fierce and deadly thing is, when a boat full of Polynesian warriors lands not far from the cave, and its crew is promptly slaughtered by a horde of horse-riding, spear-wielding Amazons.

Kilma, their queen, is a tall beauty with long black hair, who next is presiding the vow of a pair of virgins to their age-long creed in the Temple of Eternal Life, "We shall always fight against men!" A large bright blueish jewel inside a glass cover has been left them by space-faring gods, with instructions to keep it out of the hands of males at any cost.

A few days after, Robinson encounters Kilma when she was wrangling horses, mounting her black stallion Fury [Furia in the Spanish version], and she ends by capturing the man with her lasso. He manages to cut off the rope with his cutlass, but then she attacks him and they fight hand-to-hand. He wins, tries to make his escape on the queen's horse, but Fury, obeying her command, throws the man down instead. The queen orders Fury to kill the man, but Robinson sees a boa constrictor about to drop onto Kilma's shoulders from the tree behind her. Robinson shouts a warning, and risking his own neck, fights and kills the big snake. Kilma is about to cut his throat anyway, while he is unconscious, but Fury breaks up her killing mood, twice. They introduce themselves by name and rank. Kilma warns him that he must disappear or be killed, but Robinson takes time to give Kilma her first kiss before escaping. She's about to go when Fury shoves her forward into a new embrace and kiss.

A group of friendly Islanders "sailed six days and six nights to bring you the tribute" of their nation, the Foreign Chief tells the Queen, and the tribute is Anoé, their princess, a virgin "trained in the arts of warfare, and her heart is as hard as rock". The teenager with a soft face and thin arms is tested by Tuyu, first with spears, then with sword and shield versus a spear, and she's disarmed both times. Next, she must show how brave her heart is, while the Queen throws knives at her while she faces up to a possible injury or death. Walking with naked feet over burning logs is the ultimate test for Anoé to prove how pure her heart is. Satisfied with the results, the Queen awards Anoé with an Amazon necklace.

Kilma finds herself inexplicably longing for the stranger, and she searches a new encounter with him. Fury comes alone to Robinson's cave, and makes the man follow him - to his own sailing boat, where the pilot finds fresh fruits inside. The provisions were brought to him by Kilma, who was hiding, and let's herself be captured again by Robinson's arms. She is sad that he he's going away forever, and he tries to talk her into going with him. After a kiss, Kilma plunges into the clear sea waters, and he follows her (underwater cinematography) - but on their return to the beach, there's a committee of seven Amazons, led by Tiyu, who are not pleased that their queen is happy in the company of... a man.

Kilma tries to appease Tiyu, telling her that that man is not an enemy, he didn't come to their island with greed in his heart, but by chance. Tiyu wants to play safe, and gives a spear to Kilma, for her to kill the man herself. Seeing that Kilma is not going to do it, Tiyu takes another spear, and throws it at the man. Kilma deviates the flying spear with her own. Tiyu grabs a second spear from one Amazon warrior, and walks to the Queen, forcing her to fight a duel. The Queen loses her weapon, and seems about to be defeated wrestling on the sand, when Robinson picks two flintlock pistols from behind a rock he was sitting against, and steps forward. The six menacing Amazons surround him, and his pistols would only kill two of them, so he stays put. The duel goes on, both women having rearmed themselves with spears. The Queen throws her spear at Tiyu, but she evades the weapon, then Tiyu is about to spear her through the belly when Robinson shoots, and breaks the spear handle in two - to the utter amazement of the Amazons surrounding him, and Tiyu herself. Robinson makes a speech for peace on Earth, but the Amazons' attention is already directed somewhere else, as an Amazon from a viewpoint is calling the alarm with a big conch.

One-Eye Jack has been searching for the missing pilot on every island, and happens now upon the right one. Robinson dissuades Kilma to attack the half a dozen pirates that are disembarking right now on another beach, saying that they probably want nothing but a provision of water, and he will talk with them. Tiyu is still not trusting the man, but accepts to go along with his strategy.

Jack One-Eye is happy enough, he has the barrels full of water, and his men have recaptured Robinson. He talks the pilot into returning to the ship, and says they'll depart next day at dawn. Robinson sort of agrees, and Jack sends the Professor after him, to keep a watch on him. To be on the safe side - as the timid Professor had been a friend of Robinson, he sends Richard, a young mulatto, after the Professor, to keep an eye on him.

Filling up more barrels of water, provides a man with an extra catch: the gold necklace Anoé has lost in her haste to hide when the men were reaching the stream where she had been bathing with another Amazon. Another pirate disputes his right to have it, and Jack administers justice, keeping it to himself. Only now, Robinson must confess that there are some timid women in the island. Jack wishes to add the women, and their gold, to his cargo.

The Professor and the other pirate with him happen to find Anoé and her girl friend swimming at the stream, again. This time they chase the girls. The Professor is quickly knocked out, but Richard lasts longer against Anoé, that he too, ends KO. Then, they are roped, and taken prisoners, to the Amazons' village,

Elsewhere in the wood, the Queen is attacked by two pirates. She's unhorsed, but Fury refuses to be mounted by one pirate, and attacks him - while Kilma fights the other two pirates. In the end, the three men return to Jack's camp, limping, and badly beaten, complaining that they had been outnumbered - one even mentions "by one thousand giants". Hearing this, Robinson laughs, which prompts further menaces from Jack One-Eye if he doesn't lead him to where the women's gold is. He doesn't cooperate, and is whipped by Murdoch on Jack's order, lying belly down on a rock.

Kilma and another Amazon approach silently the pirates' camp, and sees the scene. Murdoch, a burly pirate with a yellow shirt, keeps whipping Robinson's back. The queen throws her spear, and seems to miss the target, but when Murdoch straightens up to look at the origin of the throw, the other Amazon throws her spear right through his chest, and he falls to his knees, groaning and dying. Two pirates shoot their flintlock pistols at the escaping Amazons, but they're already on their horses, and the shots are useless. Jack gets really mad at the men who had been beaten by two women, and pretended they were many.

At the Amazons' sacred room, Kilma lectures her people on how may have been wrong about all men being evil. Tiyu has heard the Professor, in chains, claiming that Dan Robinson is a loyal person and that he had not betrayed the Amazons, but she is not accepting his statement, nor that of the queen, about men in general, or this one in particular. Reluctantly, she leaves it to the queen to give the orders.

At Jack's camp, the situation has changed much: Robinson lays on his back now, limbs apart, roped to four stakes in the ground, under the sun. Jack drops some hot coffee on Robinson's hairy chest. Then, the Amazons charge on their horses against the pirates, who take a bit to react and arm themselves. After throwing their spears with little effect, the Amazons re-charge the pirate camp with swords. Kilma manages to cut Robinson's bonds, but it's on the rump of Tiyu's horse that the ship pilot escapes from the battle field. The Amazons leave only after setting fire to the pirate's stuff.

Later, Tiyu is taking care of his wounds - apparently confused about her feelings for him. She tells him that the queen is by the river. He meets with her, and instructs the Amazons to recuperate an old cannon and the weapons and ammunition from the early shipwreck about which he had read the ledger book. His intention is to fortify - in a very short time - the Amazons' headquarters, an old castle. Kilma shows him a lighting stone that has been left by some foreign gods thousand of years before. After talking with the two former companions, who deny being pirates, he asks Kilma to release them from their shackles. The two men clean up and prepare the cannon to shoot.

The pirates are coming after the women, but they ambush them at a ravine, retarding the pirates progress inland. Tiyu is displeased by the intimacy of Robinson with Kilma - even if it's only to teach her how to shoot a gun. The cannon shoot proves rather accurate, too. Between blade weapons, arrows, muskets, and flintlock pistols, there is another battle with losses on both sides. The fights are one-on-one or two-women-to-one-pirate killings, more than actual fighting.

Tiyu ambushes Jack on her own when he was getting away from the castle, and defeats him. Only to make a deal with him: she'll show him the way into the Amazons' fortress, if he promises not to return to their land again. She tells him that the queen has betrayed the Amazons' oath, and everything has changed since Robinson has arrived on their land. Jack laughs at her reason, and sees behind her words that she is actually in love with Robinson, and jealous of the queen. She stabs at his belly, but he falls back and is not seriously wounded. Hearing the other pirates approaching, Tiyu runs away into the jungle - but wounded, she leaves a trail that the pirates follow to the secret passage.

Tiyu makes a last stand against the pirates when they burst into the Amazons' sacred altar room. Jack shoots her down, and she falls dying at the altar. Robinson and the other Amazons arrive shortly after, and another battle takes place. Jack and Robinson fight a desperate duel, and Jacks knocks Robinson down. On trying to get hold of the shining bright stone, he starts a cataclysm that destroys the whole place.

Happiness is for the survivors: Robinson with Kilma, Richard with Anoé, and the Professor with two Amazons. No one cares when someone sees a ship in the distance...