Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 British drama film made by Romulus Films and released by MetroGoldwynMayer in the United States. The film was directed by Albert Lewin and produced by Lewin and Joe Kaufmann from his own screenplay, based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman. It was filmed mainly on the Costa Brava. The land record speed scenes were shot at Pendine Sands in Wales.

In 1930, fishermen in the small Catalan port of Esperanza make a grim discovery in their nets, the bodies of a man and a woman. The resultant ringing of church bells in the village brings the local police and the resident archaeologist, Geoffrey Fielding Harold Warrender, to the beach. Fielding returns to his villa, and, breaking the fourth wall, retells the story of these two people to the audience.Esperanzas small group of English expatriates revolves around Pandora Reynolds Ava Gardner, an American nightclub singer and femme fatale. All the men love her or believe that they do, but Pandora is unable to love anyone. ........

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