He is engaged but is having an affair with a French Creole girl Lea, a maid in his household who has a gypsy aunt, Jezebel.

The admirer tries to kiss the girl and she hits him repeatedly on the head with George's cane and kills him.

His cargo of gunpowder explodes and the main mast fall crushing Lea on the dockside.

As with many later Flynn features, the tangled production history is arguably more interesting: Marshall, the co-producer and husband of Micheline Presle, began shooting in France with no experience as a director and without realizing that French law required a parallel French-language version.

Flynn entered into a multi-picture deal with William Marshall to produce the film, among others, in July 1949.

Robert Florey started the English production but not long after shooting began Marshall took over.

[9] Under Errol Flynn's contract with Warner Bros, he was allowed to make one "outside" film a year until 1962, provided it had a major distributor.

Both Warner Bros and MGM, who had films starring Flynn awaiting release, were unhappy with this.

Flynn worried that Warner Bros would use this as an excuse to cancel their contract with him on the basis that Republic was not a major.

On 18 December 1950 he filed suit in the Los Angeles Superior Court asking them to stop Republic from releasing the film and to stop Warner Bros from cancelling the contract until the court could determine that Republic was a "major" distributor.

The audience seemed to enjoy it though there was a tendency towards laughter for scenes not especially designed for comedy... One cannot conclude that this picture in its present shape hangs together satisfactorily.

"[12] Filmink magazine wrote that " It's not a terribly accomplished screenplay – it constantly changes protagonists, not in an interesting way... and is confusing – but at least it has ambition" adding that "the quality of the cast is high" and "there's always something happening on screen, the production values are decent (costumes, sets), and its ambition is endearing.

[14][15] In November 1951, Charles Gross, an associate of Flynn's, sued claiming payments due for working on the screenplay.

[16] In 1954, Vincent Price sued Flynn and Marshall for $15,000 in unpaid wages, claiming he had been promised a fee of $35,000.