Illogical scenes


What looks particularly false in this film is both a scene on the beach where the sea is supposed to raging, but is actually very calm, and someone off camera keeps chucking buckets of water at the actors to try and convince us that the sea is rough (and failing miserably) and a chase on the beach where Bernard Lee, pursuing someone, is continually firing a single shot, muzzle-loading flintlock pistol without reloading...which would have been impossible anyway as he carries no powder horn or bag of shot.

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I waited a long time to see this, and it sure was a letdown. The acting was good, but the plot was ridiculous. I mean, you shouldn't tamper with the trusted notion of a good guy vs. a bad guy. In this film, everyone was bad!
Peter Cushing was the squire (sheriff), but he treated his own son harshly.
Bernard Lee was a smuggler.
The captain was a thief.
The captain's bar wench girlfriend was dishonest.
All the villagers were smugglers (but they were supposed to be the "good" smugglers, not the Wrecker smugglers. Kind of like good murderers and bad murderers I guess?)
Peter Cushing's son wasn't bad, but he was stupid and kept meddling when his father told him not to.

Not to mention in the final scene, our heroes do not kill the bad guy. Instead, it's a little slave kid who was hardly in the film at all up to that point. What the heck !?

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