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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO
EAN: 9780790747286
Feature: A British sea captain is given permission by Queen Elizabeth I to commit acts of piracy against the Spanish armada and colonies in the New World.Running Time: 127 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 012569522923 UPC: 012569522923 Manufacturer No: 65229
Format: Black & White, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790747286
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 65229
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Running Time: 127 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1940
Features:- A British sea captain is given permission by Queen Elizabeth I to commit acts of piracy against the Spanish armada and colonies in the New World.Running Time: 127 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR Age: 012569522923 UPC: 012569522923 Manufacturer No: 65229
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Five years after Captain Blood made him a swashbuckling star, Errol Flynn returned to the high seas as privateer Captain Thorpe in The Sea Hawk. Flynn plays the dashing gentleman pirate as dedicated patriot, looting Spanish ships for English coffers with the private blessing of Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson, reprising the role from Fire over England). The film opens with a rousing sea battle: broadside cannon fire sends masts falling and splinters a-flying before Flynn's men take their Spanish quarry in a furious shipboard cutlass battle. The fearless fighter becomes a stumbling schoolboy when he falls for the Spanish ambassador's niece, but he's back in his element when he sails to the New World for treasure and lands in the middle of a deadly conspiracy. Big-eyed beauty Brenda Marshall stands in for Flynn's usual love interest Olivia de Havilland, and the film misses the latter's sass and spirit, but it's a minor shortcoming. Claude Rains plays his usual smoothly conniving villain, and hearty Alan Hale returns as Flynn's loyal sidekick. Michael Curtiz proves once again why he was Warner Brothers' top director with a handsome, action-packed film that mixes intrigue and suspense with grand set pieces, concluding with a rousing series of escapes, chases, and a runaway sword fight. Classic Hollywood swashbuckling at its best. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  -
This movie was Errol Flynn at his best....swashbuckling. Fast-moving, fun to watch, and the Korngold music was the best ever.
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Now this is a REAL pirate movie! It's exciting, creative, and holds its own against anything within its genre from our time. Great acting by Flynn and Robson, and a wonderful musical narrative by Korngold. :) For such an old movie it stands the test of time superbly.
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Please note I saw this on TV so I can't comment on the quality of the video transfer.
This is probably the greatest swashbuckler of a movie ever made. For lusty, high seas adventure, nothing beats The Sea Hawk. Of Errol Flynn's greatest adventure movies, Robin Hood, Captain Blood, and the Sea Hawk, this is the most serious and the darkest of all of these films. He triumphs over the most adversity, and has more misadventures on the road to final victory, including being sentenced for life to being a galley slave. After the box office success of Captain Blood, Flynn was the most obvious choice for the leading role, and he turns in his most serious and intense performance, unlike his more light-hearted performances in Robin Hood and Captain Blood. These three movies are some of the greatest entertainment ever done for the silver screen; for another adventure franchise as popular or as great one had to wait 30 more years for the James Bond movies.
Some trivia about the film--the speech by the Queen of England was intended, as another reviewer here already mentioned, as a slap to the fascists and the Nazis in Germany. During the sea battle Flynn orders his ship to turn and pass by the stern of the enemy ship. This is known in naval strategy as "crossing the T," and was the way Admiral Nelson defeated the larger French and Spanish fleet in 1805 at Trafalgar. Typically it was done by crossing the bow so that only the bow guns could be brought to bear, but it was very difficult to do during the age of sail because of the limited speed and maneuverability of the ships. It became more doable in the 19th and 20th centuries when battleships with rotating turrets were built, and the ships were much faster with their steam-powered propulsion systems, from the triple-expansion steam engines of the late 19th century to the steam turbines of the 20th.
But getting back to the movie, all the lead actors turn in wonderful performances, de Havilland, Rains, Flynn, Hale, and a host of lesser names as well who look like they're having a whopping good time in this old-fashioned, lusty, adventure story on the high seas. Lastly, I think the sword play is the best of all of Flynn's movies, including Captain Blood. Michael Curtiz's direction is dead on and the movie also features a wonderful and rousing score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. This movie is truly a blast from the past, and they just don't make 'em like this anymore.
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SEA HAWK..1940
written by: howard koch and seton l miller
directed by: michael curtiz
musical score by: eric wolfgang korngold
errol flynn- captain geoffrey thorpe
dame flora robson-queen elizabeth
brenda marshall-dona maria alverez
claude rains-don jose alverez
alan hale-carl pitt
una o'connor-marthe
a great battle between one of seven english privateer vessels....THE ALBATROS...and a spanish galleon ensues on the high seas.....fire from eight powerful cannons spew out fire and smoke across the decks into the narrowly crippled spanish tall ship....splitting her arthward ship right down to her abaft the beams...her sails tattered and torn...plunge onto her decks and she's in grave danger of sinking...
ever so slowly the captain of the albatros is revealed...our gorgeous flynn..he stands tall handsome and confident at the wheel...
"mr. pitt!" he shouts out orders to prepare to board the captured vessel..
flynn and his crew swing by rope..in pirate fashion..across the water from one ship to the other...along with gathering chests full of treasures jewelry and gold ....meant for the coffers of king phillip of spain....they discover several souls below deck....marshall..rains...her uncle...the ambassador to spain and o'connor her lady in waiting..
flynn takes one hard look at marshall and we know from the expression on his face..he is rendered speechless by her very presence and beauty....they and the rest of the spanish crew are immediately transported aboard the albatros just as the spanish ship sinks to the bottom of the sea....
during the voyage to england..there is a charming sequence where marshall stands on a balcony outside her room below deck...flynn stands above deck...he leans over the rail...hesitantly and awkwardly he starts up a conversation with her...during this exchange...he tells of the virtues of pirate etiquette..and tells her of an old english proverb.."those who sail without oars stay on good terms with the wind"...he and his company prowl the seas free as birds.....he remains boyishly tongue tied sporting devastatingly expressive brown eyes and that flynn smile..
enter dame robson and her court....back now on english soil...a spectacle at court to be sure...pomp and circumstance reign...the queen summons seven captains that comprise the SEA HAWK enterprise of privateers...everyone bows but where is flynn? in another delightful scene..flynn arrives at the queens court and we observe immediately that he is favored by her...she can not hide her girlish pleasure to see him and he knows this...later in her private quarters he presents her majesty with precious pearl on a gold chain and a clever little monkey brought back from his conquests....she appears enchanted with his surprises...
robson and flynn then enter into a lengthy conversation about defeating the spanish armada...flynn wants to make plans to sail the albatros on a secret mission to panama and surprise the enemy...in a rather poignant moment between the two...the queen acquiesce but looks in his eyes and says to him.."if you did so you would do it without the approval of the queen of england.....but with the great affection of elizabeth"...he kisses her ring and bows...
later in a scene in the lovely rose garden outside the palace...*one favored by my captain*...flynn greets marshall with a more than cordial yet still shy hello...his larger than life presence is undeniable as he approaches her...she is standing there with her arms full of long stem virginal white roses....he tells her that he and his crew will be gone for months on the high seas but...tenderly says..."i shall always think of you as my lady of the roses"...
typical.....
next we see flynn and his crew trudge through thick dense panamanian jungle after being ambushed by spanish soldiers who were already waiting to attack them....beaten and half dead they managed to survive and find their way back to the sea where the albatros is anchored and waiting....when they climb aboard her...they find another trap has been set for them by the enemy..flynn sees that it is of no use to try and fight and so surrenders his ship......they are taken prisoner at once and shortly there after end up in a spanish court of law....
flynn and crew are read charges against them...one such charge...item #36 "sorcery and other heretical practices"...lands them in a dark foreboding galley of a spanish vessel... condemned to row in irons for the rest of their natural born daz....
gosh i couldn't believe that would happen for very long.....and i was right!!!
captain thrope and his merry men.....oh wait.....wrong story.....flynn and his crew escape cleverly from their shackles and fight to the finish above deck with the lame crew of the spanish galleon.....next ... Read More
Rating:  -
Very Noisy, Snoringly and Extremely Boring Movie. Very Annoying Loud Swashbuckling Music Type Score keeps thundering, when people are only lumbering about, walking around, making entrances..and doing absolutely nothing
Perhaps this is why people think it's a swashbuckling movie, because of the music, meanwhile nothing is going on.It's only an illusion..
Very little dialogue, with an attempt to hide this fact, by playing loud music, and constantly showing those damn ships, that I am sure Warner's paid plenty for, and wanted to get their money's worth..
Aside from Claude Rains, who can't help but be good, the others appear to be sleepwalking, waiting for the music to start, or stop, while reciting simpleton, sparse lines, like zombies, or as if were hypnotized.
This is not a swashbuckler, but pure trash..Robin Hood, w/ E. Flynn, or Zorro, w/ T. Power, and Both w/ the great Basil Rathbone, were swashbuckling movies..not this noise box..
Don't waste your time w/ this very annoying, and insulting dudd.It was just a Warner war (WWII) support vehicle, that had nothing to do w/ the novel..God bless Warner for that. But the movie is real trash.
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