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The Sea Hawk is a american film of genre Swashbuckler directed by Michael Curtiz released in USA on 31 august 1940 with Errol Flynn
The Sea Hawk (1940)
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Add to a movie listThe Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The film's screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The sparkling and rousing musical score is recognized as a high point in Erich Wolfgang Korngold's career.
The film was digitally colorized in 1991. Colorized versions have been broadcast on American television and distributed on VHS tape, but only the black-and-white versions, both edited (109 minutes) and restored/uncut (127 minutes), have been released in DVD formats. Currently there are no plans to release the digitally colored version on DVD.
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The film begins with King Philip II of Spain (Montagu Love) declaring his intention to destroy England and after this "puny rockbound island as barren and treacherous as her Queen" is out of the way, he believes that world conquest will follow: he says his great wall map, one day, "will have ceased to be a map of the world; it will be Spain." He sends one of his courtiers, Don Alvarez (Claude Rains), as his ambassador to allay the suspicions of Queen Elizabeth I (Flora Robson) about the great armada he is building to invade England. In England, some of the Queen's ministers plead with her to build a fleet, which she hesitates to do in order to spare the purses of her subjects.Actors
Errol Flynn
(Captain Geoffrey Thorpe)
Brenda Marshall
(Doña Maria Alvarez de Cordoba)
Claude Rains
(Don José Alvarez de Cordoba)
Donald Crisp
(Admiral Sir John Burleson)
Flora Robson
(Queen Elizabeth)
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