Cutthroat Island

Cutthroat Island is a 1995 romantic comedy action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and written by Robert King and Marc Norman based on a story by Michael Frost Beckner, James Gorman, Bruce A. Evans, and Raymond Gideon. It stars Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, and Frank Langella. The film is an international coproduction between companies in the United States, France, Germany, and Italy.

In 1668 Jamaica, Morgan Adams Geena Davis hunts down her uncle and fellow pirate Dawg Brown Frank Langella, who has captured her father, Black Harry Harris Yulin. Black Harry has one of three pieces of a map to a huge stash of gold on the remote Cutthroat Island. Dawg has another piece, having stolen it from the corpse of a third brother, Richard, while a fourth brother, Mordechai George Murcell, has the last piece. Harry refuses to give Dawg his piece and escapes with Morgans help, but not before being mortally wounded. A dying Harry reveals to his daughter the location of the map piece on his scalp.After scalping her dead father for the piece, Morgan, now the captain of her fathers ship, the Morning Star, sets out for the treasure. Unfortunately, the instructions appear to be in Latin, which no one on board reads. So, they go to nearby Port Royal to find a translator. There, they learn that one of the slaves up for auction, a con man and thief named William Shaw Matthew Modine, is fluent in Latin. After threatening a man determined to outbid her, Morgan wins the auction. Unfortunately, she is recognized from her wanted poster and is chased out of town which is demolished, along with her crew and Shaw. Humiliated, corrupt Governor Ainslee Patrick Malahide vows to find her, either to arrest her or form a partnership for half her profits. He enlists the help of chronicler John Reed Maury Chaykin, who often follows pirates to write his books. ........

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