The Spanish Main

The Spanish Main 1945 is an adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen OHara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. It was RKOs first allTechnicolor film since Becky Sharp ten years before.

Dutch sea captain Laurent van Horn Henreid is shipwrecked off the coast of the Spanish settlement of Cartagena. After being held and sentenced to death, van Horn and his crew manage to escape. Five years later, van Horn has established himself as the mysterious pirate known only by the name of his ship The Barracuda. After infiltrating the vessel ferrying her to her wedding, they capture Francisca Alvarado OHara who has been arranged to marry the corrupt governor Slezak. Wishing to avoid further bloodshed aboard the escort ship, Francisca offers to marry van Horn if he will spare the escort, to which he agrees. Over time Francisca and van Horn become attracted to each other and set out to defeat the villainous governor Don Juan Alvarado and treacherous pirates Du Billar and Capt. Black.The film includes the character Anne Bonny Barnes, in a fictionalized account of the reallife wellknown female pirate. ........

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