Cutthroat Island (1995)

Plotzle Original · O129 · July 11, 2026 · Action / Adventure

Six plot descriptions for Cutthroat Island (1995). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A disgraced naval officer joins a smuggling operation in the Caribbean to pay off gambling debts but the captain assigns him to eliminate a witness from his past.
2. An exiled cartographer returns to Bangkok to retrieve a stolen naval chart from his former associate while his daughter investigates the same theft for an insurance company.
3. Two estranged brothers compete to salvage a sunken freighter off the Alaskan coast and their violent rivalry alienates the salvage crew that depends on their combined expertise.
4. A reformed arms dealer in Marseille helps his goddaughter locate her kidnapped fiancé and they navigate competing criminal factions that control the city's waterfront district.
5. A mercenary tracker in the Australian outback follows a gang of ivory smugglers into hostile terrain but discovers his employer wants the contraband for a private collection.
6. A female pirate and her slave seek three portions of a treasure map, but her murderous uncle holds the final piece while her skeptical crew threatens mutiny and the British crown pursues her.