Against All Flags (1952) on Netflix
Approved19521h 24mActionAdventureDrama
Brian Hawke, a British naval officer, volunteers with two seamen to enter a pirate base on Madagascar. Their arrival raises suspicion, and Captain Roc Brasiliano puts Hawke before a tribunal.
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Plot summary
In the 18th century, pirates on Madagascar raid shipping across the Indian Ocean from a base that is a natural fortress, and the British Navy looks for a way to destroy them. Brian Hawke, a naval officer, steps forward with two other seamen to get inside the stronghold. Their arrival stirs suspicion among the pirates, and Captain Roc Brasiliano has Hawke brought before a tribunal to answer for himself. Spitfire Stevens, the lone woman among the captains of that coast, takes notice of him, which makes Brasiliano jealous. Hawke settles the matter by beating another pirate in a duel, and the tribunal lets his case drop. He joins Brasiliano's crew.
Cast
- Phil Tullyas Sailor Jones
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Against All Flags (1952)
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- Contract changes gave Errol Flynn more authority on the set of Against All Flags, including the right to stop working at 4 p.m., by which time he had often become drunk.
- Errol Flynn broke his ankle on February 1 during filming, with ten more days of production remaining, most of them featuring him, which delayed completion of the film.
- Errol Flynn was unsure about the scene in which he fenced against a woman, asking how he could fight a woman; director George Sherman, who had worked with Maureen O'Hara before, assured him she could hold her own with a sword, a gun or her fists, and warned him to get in shape.
- Maureen O'Hara performed many of her closeups for the love scenes opposite a black flag with a marker, while a script girl read Errol Flynn's lines off camera.
- Against All Flags was Errol Flynn's last Hollywood swashbuckler; his next three films in the genre, The Master of Ballantrae, The Dark Avenger and the unfinished The Story of William Tell, were made in Europe.
