THE SEA HAWK

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance
• Plot: 'EXUBERANT. EXCITING. AS GOOD AN OLD-TIME ADVENTURE AS YOU'LL EVER FIND! - Danny Peary, GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC; ; Cannons thunder, blades clatter and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's incomparable music swirls and flourishes in The Sea Hawk. In one of his best roles, Errol Flynn plays Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe, who commandeers a 40-gun galleon, endures captivity, then boldly escapes to warn England of Spain's armada. Working on his 10th of 12 movies with Flynn, Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) masterfully directs the fim's blend of royal intrigue and derring-do heroics - made on a then-lavish $1.7 million scale that included construction of two full-size ships. The film was stirringly topical in its day. When Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) exhorts her country to maintain fighting readiness against tyranny 'now and forever,' audiences knew forever had come: Hitler had launched his World War II air siege of England.
• Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, Alan Hale, Henry Daniell, Una O'Connor, James Stephenson, Gilbert Roland, William Lundigan, Julien Mitchell, Montagu Love, J.M. Kerrigan, David Bruce, Clifford Brooke, Clyde Cook, Fritz Leiber, Ellis Irving, Francis McDonald, Pedro de Cordoba, Ian Keith, Jack La Rue, Halliwell Hobbes, Alec Craig, Victor Varconi, Robert Warwick, Harry Cording, Herbert Anderson, Mary Anderson, Whit Bissell, Edgar Buchanan, J.W. Cody, Maurice Costello, Michael Harvey, Leyland Hodgson, Charles Irwin, Dave Kashner, Colin Kenny, Crauford Kent, Frank Lackteen, Lester Matthews, Art Miles, Gerald Mohr, Leonard Mudie, Nestor Paiva, Elizabeth Sifton, Jay Silverheels, John Sutton, David Thursby, Anthony Warde, Frank Wilcox, Frederick Worlock, Harry Worth, Michael Curtiz, Howard Koch, Seton I. Miller
• Director: Michael Curtiz
• Runtime: 2:07
• Company: Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie