The Spanish Main Overview:

The Spanish Main (1945) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Robert Fellows, Frank Borzage and Stephen Ames.

Academy Awards 1945 --- Ceremony Number 18 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best CinematographyGeorge BarnesNominated
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THE SPANISH MAIN On Blu-ray From Warner Archive

By Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 11, 2025 From The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog

Warner Archive brings out another fantastic restoration of a Technicolor classic with its Blu-ray release of the 1945 RKO pirate adventure THE SPANISH MAIN. Paul Henreid plays Laurent Van Horn, a 17th Century sea captain who is transporting immigrants to the New World. Van Horn's ship is caught in a... Read full article


Classic Films in Focus: THE SPANISH MAIN (1945)

By Jennifer Garlen on Jul 22, 2016 From Virtual Virago

The Spanish Main (1945) revisits many of the same elements as earlier swashbucklers, especially Captain Blood (1935) and The Black Swan (1942), but this time instead of Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power we get Paul Henreid as the heroic pirate, and the actor gives a perfectly winning performance in the ro... Read full article


Classic Films in Focus: THE SPANISH MAIN (1945)

By Jennifer Garlen on Jul 22, 2016 From Virtual Virago

The Spanish Main (1945) revisits many of the same elements as earlier swashbucklers, especially Captain Blood (1935) and The Black Swan (1942), but this time instead of Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power we get Paul Henreid as the heroic pirate, and the actor gives a perfectly winning performance in the ro... Read full article


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Quotes from The Spanish Main

Pillery Gow: Oh, let's hang him from the yardarm!
Paree: Bring him head-out on fire!
Pillery Gow: No, no, we got to do this properly. Step by step, limb from limb.
Contessa Francesca: Can't you let him live somehow? Find a way for him to do some useful work?
Don Juan Alvarado: Work? No, Contessa, yours is the cruelest of all suggestions.


Don Juan Alvarado: All I ever hear from you is that every golden minute has 60 golden seconds. Why does it have to have 60 golden seconds? Why can't it have 30 golden seconds? And why do they have to be golden? Why can't they be silver?


[dying words, to the Contessa]
Anne Bonney: Head him for the Carolinas... and there, good sailing.


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Facts about The Spanish Main

This was the first RKO Radio produced film to be shot in Technicolor.
The voice of Victor Kilian (Captain of the Santa Madre) is dubbed by a different actor.
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