The Sea Hawk (1940)

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Genre

adventure film, swashbuckler film, pirate film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 02m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 154 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An English privateer sails on adventures to protect his country from the Spanish Armada. The story is a patriotic adventure set in Elizabethan times.

dashingrousingpatrioticnostalgicswashbucklingupbeatromanticizedadventurousold-fashioned

What happens

The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American swashbuckling pirate adventure film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the launch of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Its screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The rousing musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold is recognized as a high point in his career, along with The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). The film was both an adventure film and a period piece about Elizabethan England's struggles with Spain, but it was also meant as a pro-British propaganda film to build morale during World War II and to influence the American public into having a more pro-British outlook. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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