"(1943), ""Mildred Pierce"" (1945), and ""Life with Father"" (1947). ""The Sea Hawk"" was one of 1940's biggest hits, starring Errol Flynn in the role of an adventurer in the mold of Sir Francis Drake. Flora Robson played Queen Elizabeth I, and Claude Rains acted as the Spanish ambassador, whose job it was to mislead the Queen who rightly suspected the Spanish Armada was about to attempt to invade England. Some critics felt the story was equivalent to actual events then taking place in Europe, describing it as a ""thinly veiled diatribe against American isolationism on World War II's brink."" Film"
"The Sea Hawk (1940 film) The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American black-and-white swashbuckling adventure film from Warner Bros. that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Its screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The rousing musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold is recognized as a high point in his career. The films was both an adventure and a period piece about Elizabethan England's struggles with Spain, however, it was also meant"
"Sea Hawk. The film was re-released to great popularity in 1947. It was one of the most popular films that screened in France that year. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: The Sea Hawk (1940 film) The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American black-and-white swashbuckling adventure film from Warner Bros. that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. Its screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The rousing musical score by"
"carriage and take Thorpe prisoner. Thorpe escapes and enters the Queen's residence, fending off guards all the while. Eventually, Thorpe runs into Lord Wolfingham and kills the traitor in a swordfight. With Doña María's assistance, Thorpe reaches the Queen and provides proof of King Philip's intentions. Elizabeth knights Thorpe and declares her intention to build a great fleet to oppose the Spanish threat. The film was announced in June 1936 and would star Errol Flynn, then coming off his success with ""Captain Blood"". Originally planned as an adaptation of Rafael Sabatini's 1915 novel ""The Sea Hawk"", the film used an"
"and rich Elizabethan costumes and, of course, there is Brenda Marshall to shed a bit of romantic light. And, when you come right down to it, that's about all one can expect in an overdressed 'spectacle' film which derives much more from the sword than from the pen."" ""Time"" magazine of 19 August 1940 observed, """"The Sea Hawk"" (Warner) is 1940's lustiest assault on the double feature. It cost $1,700,000, exhibits Errol Flynn and 3,000 other cinemactors performing every imaginable feat of spectacular derring-do, and lasts two hours and seven minutes...Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendor that would"
"set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-&-true cinema materials available, ""The Sea Hawk"" is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish [sic] Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives the best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood. For Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz, who took Flynn from bit-player ranks to make ""Captain Blood"" and has made nine pictures with him since, it should prove a high point in their profitable relationship."" The film had been in planning since Errol Flynn's success in the swashbuckler epic Captain Blood.According to Warner Bros records, the film was Warners most expensive"
"Errol Flynn Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born American actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Considered the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, he achieved worldwide fame for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, as well as frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland. He was best known for his role as Robin Hood in ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938); his portrayal of the character was named by the American Film Institute as the 18th greatest hero in American film history. His other famous roles included the eponymous lead in ""Captain"
"not to use any period music or to approximate 16th-century musical sounds, explaining: The score concentrates on the regal Main Title, the triumphal entry march of Essex into London, the Queen's theme, and the recapitulation of that theme in the End Titles. ""The Sea Hawk"" was Korngold's last score for swashbuckler films, all of which had starred Errol Flynn. It is widely regarded as one of Korngold's best. The film ran two hours and six minutes and was one of the longest films he ever worked on. It includes symphonic score in all but twenty minutes. It was also his"
"Varville opposite Greta Garbo in ""Camille"" (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in ""The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"" (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in ""The Sea Hawk"" (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn't fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces. Towards"
"early in his career: Errol Flynn Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born American actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Considered the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, he achieved worldwide fame for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, as well as frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland. He was best known for his role as Robin Hood in ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" (1938); his portrayal of the character was named by the American Film Institute as the 18th greatest hero in American film history. His other famous roles included the"
"to ""talk mean like that"", as this time, he ""is"" telling the truth, and Robin indeed appears (played by Errol Flynn, in live-action footage from ""The Adventures of Robin Hood""). Bugs, however, doubts that's ""him"". The cartoon ends with the appearance of ""the real"" Robin Hood in the form of a clip from the classic 1938 movie, which starred Errol Flynn. Flynn received a personal copy of this film in exchange for the right to use his earlier image. ""Rule, Britannia!"" (1740) is used here as a satirical motif to mock English pretension. The film's music takes advantage of the"
"in Verney carried over into the 20th century as part of the era's popular culture. He was referenced in Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel ""The Maltese Falcon"" as one of the people who possessed the jeweled bird. The title character of the 1940 swashbuckler film ""The Sea Hawk"", played by Errol Flynn, was inspired by the lives of both Verney and Sir Henry Mainwaring. He and Mainwaring were also among the real-life pirates chosen by Disney Imagineer Marc Davis to be portrayed in Disneyland's ""Pirates of the Caribbean"" amusement ride along with Anne Bonny & Mary Read, Charles Gibbs, and"
"The Sea Hawk (1924 film) The Sea Hawk is a 1924 American silent adventure film about an English noble sold into slavery who escapes and turns himself into a pirate king. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the screen adaptation was written by J. G. Hawks based upon the Rafael Sabatini novel of the same name. The movie is based on the 1915 novel by Rafael Sabatini, ""The Sea Hawk"". It premiered on June 2, 1924, in New York City, twelve days before its theatrical debut. At the instigation of his half brother Lionel (Lloyd Hughes), Oliver Tressilian (Milton Sills), a wealthy"
"at but unfortunately the actors wearing those costumes, particularly Flynn, are wooden and unconvincing,"" and went on to write that he found the film ""merely dull,"" and that ""The plot is a disaster disguised as a screenplay""; while Allmovie considered the film ""one of the few Neagle/Wilcox failures."" The film disappointed at the box office. Released on VHS home video; available on DVD in the UK since 2014 King's Rhapsody (film) King's Rhapsody is a 1955 English musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Errol Flynn and Patrice Wymore. Wymore was Errol Flynn's wife at the time"
"2010. Two silent adaptations of Sabatini novels which do survive intact are Rex Ingram's ""Scaramouche"" (1923) starring Ramón Novarro, and ""The Sea Hawk"" (1924) directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Milton Sills. The 1940 film ""The Sea Hawk"", with Errol Flynn, is not a remake but a wholly new story which just used the title. A silent version of ""Captain Blood"" (1924), starring J. Warren Kerrigan, is partly lost, surviving only in an incomplete copy in the Library of Congress. ""The Black Swan"" (1942) was filmed starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. Sabatini's only son, Rafael-Angelo (nicknamed Binkie), was killed"
"Brenda Marshall Ardis Ankerson (September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992), known as Brenda Marshall, was a Fillipino-born, American film actress. Marshall made her first film appearance in the 1939 ""Espionage Agent"". The following year, she played the leading lady to Errol Flynn in ""The Sea Hawk"". After divorcing actor Richard Gaines in 1940, she married William Holden in 1941, and her own career soon slowed. She starred opposite James Cagney in ""Captains of the Clouds"" (1942). Marshall had a popular success in ""The Constant Nymph"" (1943), but she virtually retired after this, appearing in only four more inconsequential films."
"The Sea Wolf (1941 film) The Sea Wolf is a 1941 American adventure drama film adaptation of Jack London's novel ""The Sea Wolf"" with Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, and John Garfield. The film was written by Robert Rossen and directed by Michael Curtiz. ""The Sea Wolf"" has several connections to the city of London, Ontario, aside from the source author's surname. Producer Jack L. Warner and cast member Gene Lockhart were both born in the city and cast member Alexander Knox attended university there. For these reasons, the film's Canadian premiere was held at London's Capitol Theatre. The film"
"a truly remarkable, comedic performance as the wily king. In ""The Dawn Patrol"" (1938), he played one of his few heroic roles in the 1930s, as a Royal Flying Corps (RFC) squadron commander brought to the brink of a nervous breakdown by the strain and guilt of sending his battle-weary pilots off to near-certain death in the skies of 1915 France. Errol Flynn, Rathbone's perennial foe, starred in the film as his successor when Rathbone's character was promoted. According to Hollywood legend, Rathbone was Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler in the film version of her novel ""Gone"
"Bernard Hill Bernard Hill (born 17 December 1944) is an English film, stage and television actor. He is known for playing Yosser Hughes, the troubled 'hard man' whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking 1980s TV drama ""Boys from the Blackstuff"" and, more recently, as the Duke of Norfolk in the BBC adaptation of Dame Hilary Mantel's ""Wolf Hall"". He is also known for roles in blockbuster films, including Captain Edward Smith in ""Titanic"", King Théoden in ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy and Luther Plunkitt, the Warden of San Quentin Prison in the Clint Eastwood film"
"the results that the studio cast Flynn in two more color epics before the end of the decade: ""Dodge City"" and ""The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"". A sequel, ""Sir Robin of Locksley"" was announced but never developed. The film won three Academy Awards at the 11th Academy Awards and was nominated for one more: Due to the film's popularity, Errol Flynn's name and image became inextricably linked with that of Robin Hood in the public eye, even more so than Douglas Fairbanks, who had played the role previously in 1922. This was the third film to pair Flynn"
"In February 2017, he was awarded a British Film Institute Fellowship (BFI). Peter Morgan Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (born 10 April 1963) is a British film writer and playwright. Morgan is best known for writing the historical films and plays ""The Queen"", ""Frost/Nixon"", ""The Damned United"", and ""Rush"". He is the creator of the Netflix series ""The Crown"". In 2008, Morgan was ranked number 28 in ""The Telegraph's"" list of ""The 100 most powerful people in British culture"". In February 2017, he was awarded a British Film Institute Fellowship (BFI). Morgan was born in Wimbledon, London. His mother, Inga (""née"""
"Henry Daniell Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best-known for his villainous roles in films like ""The Great Dictator"", ""Philadelphia Story"" and ""The Sea Hawk"". Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt biographical film ""Song of Love"" (1947). His name is sometimes spelled ""Daniel"". Daniell was born in Barnes, then lived in Surrey, and was educated at St Paul's School and at Gresham's School in"
"""frozen"" by the British government i.e. money earned by Warners in Britain which they could not take out of the country. Warner Bros announced on 7 September 1950 that they would make the film, with shooting to take place in England. (Warners had just made another sea-faring tale, ""Captain Horatio Hornblower"", in England.) The following year it was announced that Joe Gottesman would be producer and Herb Meadow was doing the adaptation. In 1952 it was announced that Errol Flynn would star and the film would be known as ""The Sea Rogue"". Anthony Steel, who had impressed in some British"
"The Prince and the Pauper (1937 film) The Prince and the Pauper is a 1937 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mark Twain. It starred Errol Flynn, twins Billy and Bobby Mauch in the title roles, and Claude Rains. The film was originally intended to coincide with the planned coronation of Edward VIII in 1936. However, its release was delayed until the following year. The film was released on May 8, 1937, four days before the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The second theme of the final movement of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's violin"
"1938 colour version alongside Errol Flynn, starting a trend for films to depict John as an ""effeminate ... arrogant and cowardly stay-at-home"". The character of John acts either to highlight the virtues of King Richard, or contrasts with the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is usually the ""swashbuckling villain"" opposing Robin. An extreme version of this trend can be seen in the 1973 Disney cartoon version, for example, which depicts John, voiced by Peter Ustinov, as a ""cowardly, thumbsucking lion"". Popular works that depict John beyond the Robin Hood legends, such as James Goldman's play and later film, ""The Lion in"
"Blood"" (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"" (1936), as well as a number of Westerns, such as ""Dodge City"" (1939), ""Santa Fe Trail"" (1940), and ""San Antonio"" (1945). Errol Leslie Flynn was born on 20 June 1909 in Battery Point, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. His father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania. His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but shortly after marrying Theodore at St John's Church of England, Birchgrove, Sydney, on 23 January 1909, she changed her first name"
"Ronald Leigh-Hunt Ronald Leigh-Hunt (5 October 1920 – 12 September 2005) was a British film and television actor. His father was a stockbroker and he attended the Italia Conti Academy. He began acting whilst serving in the army. Though never a major star, he appeared in over a hundred television and film productions over a forty-year period, including as King Arthur in ""The Adventures of Sir Lancelot"" in the mid-1950s, and ""General Hospital"" in the early 1970s. He appeared in ""Danger Man"" and twice in ""Doctor Who"", as Commander Radnor in ""The Seeds of Death"" (1969) and as Commander Stevenson"
"Borghild Niskin, Inger Bjørnbakken, Astrid Sandvik, King Olav V (his son), Erik Håker, Jacob Vaage, King Harald V (his paternal grandson), and Queen Sonja (his paternal granddaughter-in-law), and Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark). His father-in-law King Edward VII appointed him Honorary Lieutenant in the British Fleet shortly after succeeding in February 1901. Other honours: Haakon was portrayed by Jakob Cedergren in the 2009 NRK drama series ""Harry & Charles"", a series which focused on the events leading up to the election of King Haakon in 1905. Jesper Christensen portrayed the King in the 2016 film ""The King's Choice"" which was based on"
"issued in 2007 by the ""Naxos"" label, recorded with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Chorus led by William T. Stromberg and reconstructed by John W. Morgan. Bosley Crowther wrote in ""The New York Times"" of 10 August 1940, ""Of course, [the film] is all historically cockeyed, and the amazing exploits of Mr. Flynn, accomplished by him in the most casual and expressionless manner, are quite as incredible as the adventures of Dick Tracy. But Flora Robson makes an interesting Queen Elizabeth, Claude Rains and Henry Daniell play a couple of villainous conspirators handsomely, there is a lot of brocaded scenery"
"as a deliberately pro-British propaganda film meant to both build morale during World War II, as well as influence the American public into having a more pro-British outlook. King Philip was seen as ""an obvious"" ""allegorical Hitler"". The same theme would be visited in Alexander Korda's film Fire Over England, released around the same time and for the same reasons (however Fire Over England is somewhat less pronounced in this regard, because it was produced and released before World War II actually started). Colorized versions of ""The Sea Hawk"" were broadcast on American television and distributed on VHS tape in"
"The Dark Avenger The Dark Avenger is a 1955 British-American historical adventure film directed by Henry Levin. The screenplay was written by Daniel B. Ullman (and an uncredited Phil Park). The film stars Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru and Peter Finch. The music score is by Cedric Thorpe Davie. It is also known as The Warriors in the United States, and had a working title of The Black Prince in the United Kingdom. ""The Dark Avenger"" follows the adventures of Edward the Black Prince, son of King Edward III and heir to the throne of England, as he tries to liberate"
"the people of Aquitaine from the cruel grasp of France. The film was the last historical action film Errol Flynn would ever make. Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English army to the French province of Aquitaine to protect the inhabitant from the ravages of the French. After defeating the French in battle, the defeated French plot to kill the prince. Failing in this, they kidnap his lady, the lovely Lady Joan Holland. Of course Prince Edward has to ride to the rescue, adopting numerous guises to save his"
"intensive care. He married Georgina Simpson of the Simpsons of Piccadilly department store family. Their daughter Amy is a god-daughter of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal. Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in ""Ivanhoe"", ""Operation Daybreak"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ""The King's Speech"" (2010). For his performance in ""Brideshead Revisited"" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV"