The Sea Hawk (1940) | |
| Director(s) | Michael Curtiz |
| Producer(s) | Henry Blanke (associate), Hal B. Wallis (executive) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Romance |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Pirate, Remake, Romance (Action), Swashbucklers |
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The Sea Hawk (1940) was a Action - Adventure Film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke.
The film was based on the novel of the same name written by Rafael Sabatini published in 1915.
Academy Awards 1940 --- Ceremony Number 13 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Art Direction | Anton Grot | Nominated |
| Best Music - Scoring | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Nominated |
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The Sea Hawk (1940): Errol Flynn Against The Spanish Armada
By 4 Star Film Fan on Sep 12, 2019 From 4 Star FilmsAnyone who knows even a smidgeon about historical dates knows what the big to-do with 1588 is. If anything, 1588 automatically means the sinking of the Spanish Armada by Queen Elizabeth’s forces. So when a film opens in Spain in 1585 we already have a good idea of where we might be going. It&#... Read full article
On Blu-ray: Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk (1940)
By KC on Feb 6, 2019 From Classic MoviesI’m always delighted to watch Errol Flynn in any kind of movie, but like many film fans, I find him most irresistible in his swashbucklers. There’s a lightness to him in these roles; partly because of his easy athleticism, but also because he never seems to be taking things too seriously... Read full article
Fridays With Errol Flynn: The Sea Hawk (1940)
on Mar 11, 2016 From Journeys in Classic FilmFridays with Flynn moves from the plains of the heartland to the high seas with a retread of a film Flynn made five years earlier. Swashbucklers don’t necessarily thrill me, but even I couldn’t resist the breathless excitement that came from watching Flynn in Captain Blood (1935). By the... Read full article
Fridays With Errol Flynn: The Sea Hawk (1940)
on Mar 11, 2016 From Journeys in Classic FilmFridays with Flynn moves from the plains of the heartland to the high seas with a retread of a film Flynn made five years earlier. Swashbucklers don’t necessarily thrill me, but even I couldn’t resist the breathless excitement that came from watching Flynn in Captain Blood (1935). By the... Read full article
Swashathon! THE SEA HAWK (1940)
By Dan Day Jr. on Nov 7, 2015 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogThis is my contribution to the Swashathon! blogathon hosted by moviessilently.com. When you hear the word "swashbuckler", what is the first thing that comes to your mind? I'm sure some of you might say Douglas Fairbanks Jr., but for most folks it would be Errol Flynn. Flynn is to the swashbuckler ... Read full article
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Quotes from The Sea Hawk
Carl Pitt: [leading a cheer] To England, and the Queen!
Don José Alvarez de Cordoba: It is extremely important that my niece be presented to the Queen before her new maids of honor are chosen.
Captain Lopez: They say that Elizabeth surrounds herself with beauty in the hope that it may be contagious.
[first lines]
King Philip II: The riches of the New World are limitless, and the New World is ours - with our ships carrying the Spanish flag on seven seas, our armies sweeping over Africa, the Near East, and the Far West; invincible everywhere... but on our own doorstep. Only northern Europe holds out against us; why? Tell me, why?
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Facts about The Sea Hawk
South African Orlando Boys Club (founded in 1937) were renamed to Orlando Pirates having been influenced by the film. Orlando Pirates are a Premier Soccer League team.
The South America scenes were deliberately tinted in sepia, as was done with the Kansas scenes in The Wizard of Oz. However, in the case of "The Sea Hawk", it is unclear why this was done. Many television prints of the film, however, were entirely in regular black-and-white. Robert Osborne noted in his lead in to this movie on "The Essentials" (August 7, 2010) that sepia tones were used in the 1940 movie because Warner Brothers used, in this film, footage from their earlier version of _The Sea Hawk_ that was filmed in sepia tones. That fleshed out the fight scenes, didn't cause viewers to be ill with the change back and forth from blank-and-white to sepia, and saved money.
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