the Eagle of the seas ( The Sea Hawk ) is an American film carried out by Michael Curtiz, left in 1940. It was nominated for 4 Oscar S.

Very free interpretation of the Romance of Rafael Sabatini ( The Sea Hawk ), it is less faithful to this one than silent film of the same name left in 1924.

Synopsis

Geoffrey Thorpe is a pirate who decides to attack the Spanish ships on behalf of the crown of England. Captured, he discovers the Spanish plans to attack England: it escapes then to warn the Queen.

The final speech of the queen, saying that it is duty of the free men to fight and that the world does not belong to only one man, aimed the British public directly, then into full Second world war.

Data sheet

• Title: the Eagle of the seas
• original Title: The Sea Hawk or Beggars off the Sea
• Realization: Michael Curtiz
• Scenario: Howard Koch, Setton Miller
• Production: Warner Bros.
• Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
• Photography: Ground Polito
• Decorations: Anton Grot
• Assembly: George Amy
• Country of origin: the United States
• Format: Black and white (some scenes in Sepiatone) - Mono
• Kind: Venture, lovesong
• Durée: 127 minutes
• Coming out date: 1942

Distribution

• Errol Flynn : Captain Geoffrey Thorpe
• Brenda Marshall: Gave Maria Alvarez de Cordoba
• Claude Rains: Gift Jose Alvarez de Cordoba
• Flora Robson: Queen Elizabeth I
• Henry Daniel: Lord Wolfingham
• Gilbert Roland: Captain Lopez

External bond

• the Eagle of the seas on Internet Movie Database