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Sea Hawk, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Cannons thunder, bIades cIatter and Erich Wolfgang KorngoId's incomparabIe music swirls and fIourishes in The Sea Hawk. ln one of his best roIes, ErroI Flynn plays Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe, who commandeers a 40-gun galIeon, endures captivity, then boIdly escapes to warn EngIand of Spain's armada. Working on his 10th of 12 movies with Flynn, MichaeI Curtiz masterfuIly directs the film's blend of royal intrigue and derring-do heroics - made on a then lavish $1.7 milIion-scale that included construction of two full-sized ships. The film was stirringly topicaI in its day. When Queen Elizabeth exhorts her country to maintain fighting readiness against tyranny "now and forever," audiences knew forever had come: Hitler had launched his WorId War II air siege of England. |
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