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Title:
The Sea Hawk
Region:
One
Genre:
Swashbuckling Adventure
Stars:
Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, Flora Robson, and Alan
Hale.
Writers:
Howard Koch and Seton L. Miller
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Feature
length: 127 minutes
Extras:
Leonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night At The Movies 1940, Newsreel, “Alice In
Movieland” Short, “Porky’s Poor Fish” Cartoon, Theatrical Trailers,
“The Sea Hawk: Flynn In Action” Featurette
Languages:
English Monaural Sound
Subtitles:
English Closed Captions and English, French, and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging:
Amaray Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 34
Sound:
Monaural Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 1940/DVD Release: 2005
Theatrical
Distributor: Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc.
Home
Video Distributor: Warner Home Video
MPAA
Rating: Not Rated
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
Warner
Brothers acquired the rights to “The Sea Hawk” after buying First National
Pictures, who had produced a successful silent version of the film years
earlier. With the success of “The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex” as
well as the economic break the studio would receive by recycling some of the
sets and costumes from that feature, “The Sea Hawk” was put into production.
The film takes place during the reign of Queen Elizabeth just as “The Private
Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex” had, but it also carried with it some
similarities to Flynn’s “Captain Blood” and was marketed as “Robin Hood
at sea.” In fact only the name “The Sea Hawk” was used from the original
literary property. Great indoor sets containing life size portions of giant
English and Spanish ships were constructed in tanks that could be flooded and
even by modern standards, the engineering behind these sets is quite impressive.
Michael Curtiz stepped in as Director once more and the film is photographed
beautifully. In fact the black and white cinematography can truly be appreciated
as never before with this wonderful (1.33:1) DVD aspect ratio presentation,
which is accompanied, by a clear English Monaural Soundtrack and English Closed
Captions for the hearing impaired as English, French, and Spanish Language
Subtitles as options. Errol Flynn is at the top of his game when it comes to his
fencing skills and the film itself served as a metaphor for Hitler’s attempts
to break the will of the British through air raids during World War II.
Erich
Wolfgang Korngold arguably supplied one of his best motion picture scores for
this Errol Flynn picture. Like the other feature film releases within Warner
Home Video’s “Errol Flynn: The Signature Collection,” this DVD edition of
“The Sea Hawk” features another “Warner Night At The Movies 1939”
featurette hosted by Leonard Maltin (4:02) with a newsreel containing actual
footage from The Battle of Britain (1:50), a fluffy short entitled “Alice In
Movieland” (21:39), which stars Joan Leslie and was written by none other than
Ed Sullivan. A black and white cartoon featuring Porky Pig (6:48) as well as
trailers for Errol Flynn’s “Virginia City” (1:59) and “The Sea Hawks”
(2:22) are included along with the new featurette “The Sea Hawk: Flynn In
Action” (17:31). The interactive menus are well rendered and easy to navigate.
“The
Sea Hawk” is available as a part of the “Errol Flynn: The Signature
Collection” DVD box set or separately now at retailers on and offline courtesy
of Warner Home Video.
©
Copyright 2005 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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