AGAINST ALL FLAGS

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A strange subversion comes from the heyday of the British Empire. Although the UK military was famous for handing out floggings eagerly, it was strictly confined to British troops. This is remarkable considering the racial inequalities and tensions throughout the imperial period; in Indian service, British infantrymen could be subjected to hundreds of lashes while flogging the native sepoys was strictly forbidden. British law actually held a distinction between whipping (to be beaten with a whip) and flogging (to be beaten with a cat-o-nine-tails). Both were abolished in Britain in 1948. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Del amor y otros demonios, Father Cayetano Delaura flogs himself while in an Heroic BSoD state after he realises that Sierva Maria is getting to him. His superior finds him half-dressed, exhausted, and almost delusional after all the self-torture.

Universal made a brave attempt to recapture the scope and vigor of the Warner pictures and, while Against All Flags does not equal the best of them, it runs the second echelon pretty close. The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "Sorrow Songs", a band of gypsies attempts to flog one of their number before banishing him when they believe him guilty of murder. Lucien and Charlie intervene before the flogging can be carried out. Dope Slap: The no-nonsense Molvina MacGregor does this to Princess Patma when the Princess threatens to have her cast into the cobra pit. Errol is a secret spy, and he smuggles himself aboard Captain Anthony Quinn's pirate ship to gain information, but he doesn't count on Tony and his right-hand lady Maureen O'Hara catching onto his act. Before long, he's summoned before the entire crew and forced to prove himself as loyal. Well, when he makes a play for the captain's girl, that doesn't make him look very loyal, does it? Maureen herself doesn't really mind, because she's been playing hard to get with Tony for quite a while, and it's clear to the audience from the get-go that she prefers Errol.In High Plains Drifter Marshal Duncan was whipped to death in the street. Yes, you can be whipped to death. The Stranger then gets revenge on those who did it and he whips one to death in the flame-lit street and hangs another with a whip.

In his one and only film done for Universal Studios Errol Flynn plays a king's spy, an officer in the British navy sent to infiltrate the pirate lair on Madagascar and put their harbor guns out of commission. The head pirate Anthony Quinn doesn't trust him as far as he can throw a yardarm. But he does interest lady pirate Maureen O'Hara who is letting her hormones get control of her judgment.Father Brown: In "The Cat of Mastigatus", Father Brown that a boys school has a secret history of inflicting terrible Corporal Punishment on boys using a modified taws called 'the cat of mastigatus', that leaves permanent scars and permanently crippled the hands of one boy. On the other hand, Quinn overplays his character like he's trying for an Academy Award, but comes across like he's in a broad comedy. Despite her beauty, O'Hara's charms escape me at the best of times, and here she got on my nerves every time she was on screen. I have never been into her ''spitfire" persona, regardless of which movie she trots it out for. In 2011, a 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl died, possibly lashed to death , when a self-appointed Sharia court sentenced her to 80 lashes for "having an affair" note no mention is made of whether she consented, and regardless this would have been considered statutory rape in most parts of the world with a married cousin. Bangladesh being a reasonably civilized Muslim country (the practice of flogging as punishment had been banned in no uncertain terms the previous year, following national consensus) those responsible—including the cleric who issued the ruling—were promptly arrested and tried for murder. O Hara immediately gets the hots for Hawke and both actors seem to have good chemistry. In the mix comes a ship sailing from India carrying a princess who also also falls for Hawke and brings some comic relief but also happens to be daft as a brush.

Note that people can and have been flogged to death. Given that the tip of a whip can easily break the sound barrier, a hundred lashes can easily kill, especially with a knout. (In the British Army during the Napoleonic era, the maximum number of lashes a soldier could be sentenced was one thousand and two-hundred, but then British whips were less hardcore than the Continental ones and the sentence would often be reduced anyway. note The Napoleonic years were toward the end of the years of the "Bloody Code," when Britain's criminal laws frequently mandated punishments far in excess of proportion (including death for things like stealing anything worth more than twelve pence); as a result, British judges, both civilian and military, were accustomed to handing down extremely severe sentences and then passing along a notice that clemency was to be granted as a matter of course.) Even if you don't die in the process, a good traditional flogging will often result in you dying from your wounds and/or infection shortly after. This is the sort of flogging that was a popular form of punishment in Imperial Russia, in particular, where they used particularly coarse leather for these purposes. Due to this, it was also traditional to pay the executioner to go easy on someone, which still hurt like hell but generally wasn't fatal. It should also be noted that even if a victim survived a severe flogging, they could end up crippled for life, and in an era of single-income-earner families and little in the way of accessible charity on a large scale, this could leave the victim's family destitute.Dive (2003): Blade carries a whip everywhere with him and loves using it on his crewmen at the slightest excuse. In The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), the inmates of Château d'If are given a lashing on the anniversaries of their arrivals, with one lash per year. Done just to remind them how long they had been there. Both normal flogging and scourging were used in the martyrdom of Christians. For example, after Saint Sebastian was badass enough to survive being turned into a Human Pincushion, some versions of his myth say that he was flogged to death (others said he was beheaded); Saint Philomena's myths say that the first torture she was subjected to was scourging, and then angels healed her that same night; and Saint Bibiana was allegedly flogged to death (though some versions say she was scourged, then given a mercy kill via a stab to the chest.) I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: Hawke asks the disguised Princess Patma what her name is. Patma goes blank and then tells him that she cannot remember what name MacGregor told her to give, but she does remember that she is not supposed to say she is the daughter of the Moghul Emperor. This seems to genuine naiveté (or stupidity) on Patma's case, rather than any desire to expose her true identity.