tbh this is an “okay” but not really great film. The film’s about the conflict between a corrupt Carribean governor and a ship of pirates. It’s mostly interesting because James Earl Jones (RIP) is in it.

He must have been around 44 when this was filmed. He’d been winning awards on Broadway and had been getting movie roles here and there. He would have been doing the voice of Darth Vader around the time this came out and then in the 80s and 90s his career really took off.

In this movie he plays a supporting role, but gets a decent amount of screen time. Anyway, the movie bombed so it’s usually forgotten. I just thought of it because of his passing – he seems to be having a good time in the movie, or maybe he was just acting.

(another James Earl Jones role posted previously is in: Conan the Barbarian: https://lemm.ee/post/36207082)