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The
Sea Hawk
Release date 1st July 1940
Country : USA
Running time : 127 mins
Genre : Action/Adventure
Starring Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Flora Robson, Claude Rains, Henry Daniell
Screenplay by Howard Koch, Seaton I Miller
Directed by Michael Curtiz
A Warner Brothers Picture
Captain Geoffrey Thorpe is part of a band of adventurous pirates called "the sea hawks" a group who pillage Spanish ships for the greater glory of England and hope to reduce the threat of the Spanish Armada. He captures the ship of the Spanish ambassador and falls in love with the ambassador's niece Dona Maria. Queen Elizabeth is outraged at his actions but secretly supports his attempt to attack the Spanish in the New World. The plan is known to the Spainiards and Thorpe is captured but he escapes with proof of the plans for the Spanish Armada.
There are some plot holes in this movie but it doesn't really matter when its so exciting, the fencing and action scenes are brilliant. Flynn is at his best and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score (his last for an action film) is superb.
Release date 1st July 1940
Country : USA
Running time : 127 mins
Genre : Action/Adventure
Starring Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Flora Robson, Claude Rains, Henry Daniell
Screenplay by Howard Koch, Seaton I Miller
Directed by Michael Curtiz
A Warner Brothers Picture
Captain Geoffrey Thorpe is part of a band of adventurous pirates called "the sea hawks" a group who pillage Spanish ships for the greater glory of England and hope to reduce the threat of the Spanish Armada. He captures the ship of the Spanish ambassador and falls in love with the ambassador's niece Dona Maria. Queen Elizabeth is outraged at his actions but secretly supports his attempt to attack the Spanish in the New World. The plan is known to the Spainiards and Thorpe is captured but he escapes with proof of the plans for the Spanish Armada.
There are some plot holes in this movie but it doesn't really matter when its so exciting, the fencing and action scenes are brilliant. Flynn is at his best and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score (his last for an action film) is superb.
Henry Daniell who played the villain couldn't fence so in the final sword fight with Flynn doubles had to be used, thats why the scene uses a lot of shadows, it is very imaginatively filmed.
Flora Robson's final speech was very relevant to the world situation of 1940, substitute Hitler for Philip of Spain and you get the idea.
DVD
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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