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The Sea Hawk (1940)
Director: Michael Curtiz
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From Time Out Film Guide
A hugely enjoyable swashbuckler from the days when 'packaging' wasn't such a dirty word and Jack Warner was a master of the art. Flynn plays novelist Rafael Sabatini's privateer, royally encouraged into deeds of derring-do against the wicked Spanish, as an amalgam of Captain Blood (also Sabatini-based) and Robin Hood. Robson repeats her Good Queen Bess from Fire Over England. House action specialist Curtiz directs what is in total a remake of a 1924 Frank Lloyd silent. Practice, as they say, makes perfect.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Hal B Wallis, Henry Blanke
Cast: Errol Flynn, Flora Robson, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Henry Daniell, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Gilbert Roland, Una O'Connor full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 127 mins
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