The Sea Hawk (1940 film)

The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nations interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The films screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The sparkling and rousing musical score is recognized as a high point in Erich Wolfgang Korngolds career.

The film begins with King Philip II of Spain Montagu Love declaring his intention to destroy England and after this puny rockbound island as barren and treacherous as her Queen is out of the way, he believes that world conquest will follow he says his great wall map, one day, will have ceased to be a map of the world it will be Spain. He sends one of his courtiers, Don Alvarez Claude Rains, as his ambassador to allay the suspicions of Queen Elizabeth I Flora Robson about the great armada he is building to invade England. In England, some of the Queens ministers plead with her to build a fleet, which she hesitates to do in order to spare the purses of her subjects.The ambassadors ship is captured en route to England by the Albatross and her captain, Geoffery Thorpe Errol Flynn. Don Alvarez and his niece, Doa Mara Brenda Marshall, are taken aboard and transported to England. Thorpe is immediately enchanted by Doa Mara and gallantly returns her plundered jewels. Her detestation of him softens as she too begins to fall in love. ........

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