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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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