Squint your eyes and the metaphor almost fits. HatTip to EG.

Grand seafaring saga stars Tyrone Power as a 17th-century pirate who, along with his captain, Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar), reforms and moves to Jamaica in order to free the island from attacks by fellow freebooters George Sanders and Anthony Quinn. Maureen O’Hara is Power’s love interest in this Oscar-winning swashbuckler.