Sea Hawk, The (1940)

One of the best pirate movies you'll ever see (though not quite as good as Captain Blood (1935), in my opinion). One of the many director Michael Curtiz-actor Errol Flynn collaborations which also features great (of course) performances by Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Henry Daniell, Una O'Connor, J. M. Kerrigan, James Stephenson & Brenda Marshall (seen in some obscure films). Howard Koch and Seton Miller (The Criminal Code (1931)) wrote the screenplay; the title was taken from the Rafael Sabatini novel (and 1924 film). Received Oscar nominations for Art Direction, Special Effects, Sound and Score.

Flynn plays the titled pirate from England - Geoffrey Thorpe; Hale, Stephenson and Crisp (?) are members of his crew. In one of his raids, freeing British slaves held by Spain, he meets and falls for a Spanish beauty, Dona Maria Alvarez de Cordoba (Marshall, whose uncle is Rains) but, naturally, she wants nothing to do with him. However, when she finds he has returned her jewels, her opinion of him begins to change. Eventually he is "hired" by his Queen, Elizabeth I (Robson), to disrupt Spain's ships, and battles Lord Wolfingham (Daniell).

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