Pirates in example sentence
Based on a novel set on the Cornish coast by Daphne Du Maurier, the same author and setting as "Rebecca", Laughton plays a decadent, deceitful nobleman who shelters a young orphaned woman from a band of cutthroats living down the road; seems these land pirates are in league with a not-so-mysterious benefactor to sabotage the ships attempting to port, ransacking their vessels and killing everyone on board.