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- The review The Spanish Main is a terrific film. It is about a Dutch captain who turns pirate to wage war after being wronged by the Caribbean authorities. Paul Henreid and Maureen O'Hara give amazing performances. The screenplay is good but a little slow. Frank Borzage did a great job directing this movie.
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When Dutch pirate ship captain Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid) seizes a Spanish galleon near the Carolinas, he foils the arranged marriage plans of lovely Contessa Francisca (Maureen O'Hara).
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The Spanish Main: Directed by Frank Borzage. With Maureen O'Hara, Paul Henreid, Walter Slezak, Binnie Barnes. After being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Apr 2, 2024 · The Spanish Main is a 1945 swashbuckler film about an honorable Dutch sea captain who turns pirate to get revenge against an evil viceroy who wronged him. It all starts when Laurent Van Horn’s ship shipwrecks off the Colombian coast. He turns to Don Alvarado, the Spanish Viceroy, for help.
Sep 10, 2012 · The Spanish Main 1945, directed by Frank Borzage | Film review. Film. Time Out says. No scope for Borzage's gorgeously swooning, religiose romanticism in this swashbuckler, one of his most...
The Spanish Main is a 1945 American adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. It was RKO's first all-Technicolor film since Becky Sharp ten years before. Cinematographer George Barnes received an Oscar nomination for Best Color Cinematography.
The Spanish Main (1945) was very much Paul Henreid's baby; he wanted to shake up his image by playing a red-blooded, two-fisted romantic hero. Many feel he was miscast in the lead, too effete to be a swashbuckling pirate captain.
Jul 28, 2006 · Frank Borzage’s 1945 film The Spanish Main is a colorful, typical swashbuckler starring the red-headed Irish spitfire Maureen O’Hara, and it’s all right as far as these things go, but it hardly seems the work of its maker.
