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A very able cast makes this story eminently watchable with an ending you might not be expecting but that I find very satisfying! Richard Egan, Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Lori Nelson, Russell Collins and Joseph Calleia are well worth watching. The jarring note is that some of the scenes shot on location at sea, make the soundstage scene look out--of-place obvious. Jane Russell, "in peril" below is, of course, a huge selling point. Egan and Roland bring the beefcake. Collins the brains.and Calleia brings some danger. All bring plenty to their roles. The very lovely, Lori Nelson, would later become the object of desire in one of the CREATURE sequels.

Slow moving, but watchable, tho' I think describing it as "John Ford Lite" is being more than charitable. This somewhat off-beat Civil War western pairs an in-decline Errol Flynn with his 3rd wife, Patrice Wymore. Flynn leads a small Confederate patrol out to California on a secret mission from Robert E. Lee to save the Confederacy. A dozen or so years earlier the film's director, William Keighly, had been replaced as director on THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. WB management was disappointed with the early rushes on ...ROBIN HOOD and brought in their workhorse and Master-Of-All-Genres, the great, Michael Curtiz, who picked up the reins and completed what is generally regarded as THE classic swashbuckler.