Sea Devils

In an English tavern ca. 1800, fisherman turned smuggler Gilliat (Rock Hudson) chills with pal Willie (Bryan Forbes), as rival Rantaine (Maxwell Reed) is engaged by lady spy Yvonne de Carlo, for transit to France, Ivor Barnard her anxious agent, in Sea Devils, 1953, from a Victor Hugo novel.

Rock Hudson (as English "Gilliat"), who selflessly swam out to try to rescue Countess de Remuset (Yvonne de Carlo, whom, he still doesn't know, is really a British spy, on his side), is not impressed that she's convinced his captors not to kill him, in Raoul Walsh's Sea Devils, 1953.