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.