i like the film and it´s the best pirate movie i watch hitherto ( forget silly errol flynn stuff and pirate of the caribbean ) . this movie be wonderful melancholic . i compare it with johnny guitar at the sea side ( but 3 year earlier ) and two woman fight for a man and where mad love might lead one . the character of the female ( anti ) heroine and anne providence and be superb and act without compromise like a child and lose alone on her search for a own female identity in a real man´s world . she´s a quite strange movie hero and not a funny pirate and a most of her companion in this genre and not make joke all the time and fight for the poor and good and only kill the stupid spanish or british soldier or good sly governor and but she´s murder all the poor prisoner of war and after she capture a ship ( look careful at this at the start of the movie ) and she´s primitive ( she can not even read ) and she be desperated and she get´s an alcoholic and she loose all her friend a consequence of her obstinacy and she´s wear rag most of the film . this film show a pirate hero a little ( . ) bit a he ( or in this case she and but there have be a female anne buccaneer and anne boney ) might have be in brutal reality . the film be quite short and the story be tell in a breathtaking manner . certainly and a film from the 1950s have no excite special effect for present time viewer ( the ship swim very obvious in a bath tube ) and but this real drama about love ( that kill ) and trust and betrayal and revenge and hatred and sacrifice drive one crazy . maybe and anne be even suppose to be judas iskarioth and jesus from nazareth in one person and be betray by her friend ( the french larochelle ) a jesus while after be disappoint by the friend and deliver him to a death penalty ( a juda ) while than get remorse about this ( like juda and who commit suicide accord to the gospel of matthew ) while and in the end sacrifice herself for the rescue of the beloved enemy ( a jesus ) . but and even if you be not interested in this philosophical question of guilt and atonement and the film bring a lot of ( cheap ) action a sword fight and burning ( plastic ) ship for a very short one and a half hour .