Plot

A ruthless pirate captures the keeper of a lighthouse, in the most southern city in Argentina. His goal is obvious and horrific. He plans to control the lighthouses signals in a way that the passing ships will be crushed on the rocks.

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.—John Rutkai <jrutkai@learningtree.com>

William Denton kills his former best friend, who has become a dishonest business partner, in a fit of pique over their goldmine. The man had stolen the love of his life away. Feeling loss, remorse and guilt, Denton accepts work as a lighthouse keeper in the most remote corner of the world to find some sort of redemption. The island is suddenly attacked by ruthless wreckers, led by the sophisticate pirate, Captain Jonathan Kongre, who plans to use the lighthouse and island as a lure for wrecking passing settler ships rounding Cape Horn. The Lighthouse keepers are brutally slain but Denton escapes to hide in a cave and thereafter treated as a coward and used for sport by Kongre, who later taunts Denton into a face-to-face challenge. Kongre is curious about this man who refuses to die and soon discovers Denton's guilty secrets in a diary. Kongre has the idea to lure Denton out in the open by using his captured woman named Arabella to parade around in a red dress like in the photograph Denton kept of his long-gone fiancé. The half-crazed Denton secretly observes the beautiful Arabella, a woman who has become Kongre's paramour, thinking that it could be his lost lover. Denton is confused because she resembles his deceased former fiancé so much. He tries to rescue her, but she explains that she has chosen this life rather than be raped and killed by Kongre's men. The hunt across the island for Denton continues. A settler ship is soon lured to its destruction on the dangerous reef by Kongre's crew and all the survivors are brutally slaughtered on the beach. Denton rescues one of the survivors and takes him back to his hideaway. The innocent crewman gives Denton the motivation to overcome his fears and decides to confront Kongre, fight back and attempt to prevent the pirates from wrecking a second ship using extreme violence. Denton kills Kongre in hand to hand combat regaining control of the lighthouse, blows up his ship with all the men on board, just as a relief ship arrives with marines aboard to clear out the last of the pirates and rescue Denton. He has finally come to terms with his tortured conscience after so many years in this self-imposed exile.