The Sea Hawk

Dashing... romantic... Errol Flynn at his thrilling best!

Adventure History Romance
127 min     7.1     1940     USA

Overview

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

Reviews

CinemaSerf wrote:
This is probably my favourite Errol Flynn film. The story is (very) loosely based on the privateers who raided the Spanish treasure ships during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (rather convincingly portrayed here by Flora Robson). Flynn seizes an ambassadorial galleon on which are travelling Claude Rains and Brenda Marshall, and a tale of espionage, secrecy, love and skullduggery ensues for an exciting couple of hours. Korngold always had the skill to add something special with his score to these seafaring adventure films - and he does in abundance here too (though perhaps not the songs with the shockingly terrible rhymes!?). Henry Daniell is also worthy of mention as the duplicitous "Lord Wolfingham" A brilliant bit of cinema that you ought to see if you get a chance.

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