Just prior to World War One the hard drinking sharpshooting, Irish American Colonel Flynn O'Flynn, uses British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith to help poach ivory from German controlled territory in East Africa, putting them at odds with Herman Fleischer, the local German Provincial Commander. When Sebastian is infected with malaria he is nursed back to health by Flynn's daughter Rosa, they fall in love and marry. Not long after Britain declares war on Germany and they are drawn into the conflict, ultimately making a daring attack on the German armored cruiser SMS Blücher as it undergoes repairs in a local estuary. 在一次世界大战期间，有两名西方冒险家来到南非，他们想通过猎取象牙，来谋取巨大的利润．在他们进行这种肮脏的交易的过程中，与当地的德国军队有一连串的冲突，以至到了水火不容的地步，最后二人合力炸毁了德国的战舰作为报复。
