Daffy, tired of being typecast in comedies, submits a screenplay with himself in the role of the Scarlet Pumpernickel.

The quintessential "swashbuckler", starring the quintessential swashbuckler of them all, "Australia's Own" Errol Flynn. Flynn, recently fired as a New Guinea Patrol Officer and forced to 'leave town' after cheating a number of village chiefs - merely a continuance of the behaviour which led to his expulsion from a number of Australian Schools - took a small part in the film In the Wake of the Bounty. This brought him to the attention of Jack L. Warner of Warner Bros. Warner liked the look of Flynn and took a risk on him, giving him as his first film role (which projected Flynn to instant international super-star status): the lead in the film of the adventures of Dr Peter Blood, surgeon, wrongfully sentenced to transportation to the American Colonies. Escaping, Hero Flynn takes over, becoming the feared and fearsome Captain Blood, pirate chief, swashbuckler and terror of the seas. However, tamed by the love of the beautiful de Havilland (in the first of many co-starring roles, concluding in 1940 with They Died with Their Boots On), they all sail happily into the western sea...