Really wasn't looking forward to this one. I generally can't stand ship tales. But this was pretty hard-hitting. A ship's captain, who was once scalped by Indians but somehow survived, albeit with his head in a fairly disfigured shape, brings his wife on board for a nefarious mission to Africa that involves selling slaves. He keeps her locked up in their cabin, and becomes increasingly paranoid that every man on board wants to have her. With his brute strength he embarks on a jealous, murderous rage, intent on making the ship their own personal paradise. Gotta say, it kept me interested...