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Beneath the briny, where Davy Jones’ Locker is home to the bodies of thousands of dead sailors who lost their lives on the high seas, there be treasure. Frank Wild (Stanley Tucci) has never let go of his boyhood dreams of roaming the world turning up buried jewels and ships’ figureheads and letting pieces of eight run through his light fingers, although he has come up with some distinctly adult ploys to make that possible. Are they legal? Perhaps extra-legal would be the right expression. Think black ops. At the very least, there are some shady characters involved, the kinds of people captured by long lenses in police investigations.

In the first episode of La Fortuna, a six-part series that is an American-Spanish co-production written and directed by Alejandro Amenábar and premiered in the official selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival, Wild’s deep-sea salvage company Atlantis is celebrating...