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This yarn concerning the Spanish privateer ‘Diablo’ doesn’t take place in the high seas but on the Cornish coast where devilish Captain Christopher Lee fools the defenceless villagers by claiming that the English fleet has been defeated by the Spanish Armada - hence they now are obliged to grudgingly lend a helping hand in the reparation of the badly damaged ship. However…
It’s 1588 and the battle between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada is at its fiercest. One Spanish privateer, the ‘Diablo’ – run by ruthless Captain Robeles (Christopher Lee) ends up badly damaged drifting along the Cornish coast and takes air at a tucked-away inlet - in urgent need of repair. As it so happens, a young girl named Jane (Natasha Pyne), an inhabitant of the small local village is spotted rowing along the shallow waters by Robeles and his men, among them Pepe (Hammer staple Michael Ripper looking like an Oompa Loompa with his ridiculous orange-tint facial make-up).