Product Review

Make ready the topsails! Australian-born leading man Rod Taylor portrays English seafaring captain Sir Francis Drake in this sword-clanging; swashbuckling adventure told in bold; colorful strokes that includes Drake's circumnavigation of the globe; a mutiny at sea; raids that brought England a wealth of Spanish gold; Spain's foiled scheme to supplant Queen Elizabeth (and replace her with Mary of Scotland) and Drake's daring battle-at-sea gambit that left the mighty Spanish Armada in ruins. Three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Irene Worth essays the role of politically crafty Elizabeth; who convinces Spanish ambassadors that she loathes Drake's privateering while secretly financing him. In the same month that Seven Seas to Calais was released in the U.s.; Taylor would find more onscreen foes - this time not at sea but in the air; when he starred in Alfred Hitchcock's memorable The Birds.

When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.