Captain Lightfoot

11/25/2023

"Michael Martin" (Rock Hudson) is a low-key highwayman in early 1800s Ireland happy to rob the local gentry and contribute to Denis O'Shea's association that is peaceably pressuring for Irish freedom. The latter man isn't keen on accepting the fruits of crime, though, and so "Martin" leaves in a fit of pique and encounters a clergyman who takes him to a tavern. No room at the inn, but the preacher is a man of imagination and soon they are to share a room - if only the robber can convince the rebel-loathing landlord that he is worthy! Guess what? Folks ain't what they seem and in best "The Moonraker" tradition, the priest turns out to be the legendary "Capt. Thunderbolt" (Jeff Morrow) and swiftly the two become best friends, the former falls madly in love with the mischievous "Aga" (Barbara