Rhonda Fleming discusses her Cinderella-like story in Hollywood, which began with her first significant movie role in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945).
Kit Gerardo, also known as The Hawk, is one of Frances's most daring privateers, rescues Rouge from a Spanish ship. She is also a pirate, working to restore the fortune the French took from her. When Kit is captured by the governor of Cartagena, Luis del Toro, Rouge demands that he be hanged for piracy. Only one person knows it, but Kit is the governor's son.