She was a barmaid and he was too tiny to get a job with the smugglers (!!). So they both turned to highway robbery, terrorising the clifftop highways on horseback. The film began with archaeologists in the 1980s digging, searching for clues of these two highwaymen who famously vanished...

The advertising for the film presented it as a romance. OUTLAW LOVE. Very Mills & Boon. But the film pulled the rug out from the audience because both of the leads were gay. There was this repeated hilarious motif like YOU'VE JUST BEEN ROBBED BY A LESBIAN AND HER SHORT GAY FRIEND. *guitar twang*

My favourite bit: the disappearance. Something gives the two highwaymen away - their identity becomes known to the locals they live amongst. The jig is up. They get together for one last heist. Threre's a chase scene, mad 80s music, and like Thelma and Louise, they decide to gallop off the cliff.

But it's all an optical illusion. The cliffs had this hidden ridge leading down to the smugglers' tunnels. The smugglers who wouldn't let Con join because he's too damn small. So there's this moment like, "Trust me." And they appear to go hurtling over the edge with the King's men chasing them...

The gay highwaymen disappear into the sea air, presumably dead. But the horses know the terrain and they manage to escape with the money and are never seen again. Their story becomes a Cornish legend and ends up drawing tourists a century later for their "oUTLaW LovE", but psyche: they're gay.