The Saragossa Manuscript

During the Napoleonic Wars, a young officer finds a manuscript relating to the story of his grandfather, a captain of the guard - Alphonse van Worden. Worden - a man of honor and resilience - seeks a shortcut through the Sierra Morena. At an inn, he accompanies two oriental princesses. They treat him like a cousin and try to seduce him in every way. Soon he wakes up under a gallows on which two corpses hang...