Synopsis

A movie about Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones -- except with sea monsters.

Cooper would play real-life Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones, albeit a much-younger Jones, well before he had famously "not yet begun to fight" the Brits. After he's stripped of his British naval commission, Jones is hired by a shipping magnate to investigate the disappearance of merchant ships in the North Atlantic, which are used as toothpicks by a giant squid."