Feb 11th
The Sea Hawk***   

(US 1940)            

Warner Bros. 122m. bw

A dashing pirate privateer plunders for Queen Elizabeth I in order to thwart the impending Spanish Armada.
Rousing swashbuckler, a quintessential Flynn vehicle blending all the elements of Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood together with a stirring anti-Nazi call to arms, and some of the best action sequences ever filmed by Warners, even if the plot languishes in mid phase, and the gunfire sounds more gangsterish than Elizabethan!

Written by: Seton I. Miller, Howard Koch.
Producer: Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke.
Director: Michael Curtiz.
Starring: Errol Flynn, Flora Robson, Claude Rains, Brenda Marshall, Henry Daniell, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Una O'Connor, James Stephenson, Gilbert Roland, William Lundigan, Montagu Love (as Phillip II), Victor Varconi, Fritz Leiber.
Photography: Sol Polito.
Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

Preceded by:
Alice in Movieland*
(US 1940. Warner Bros. 20m. bw; A beauty contest winner on her way to Hollywood dreams of stardom.; w: Walter Crump, Cyrus D. Wood; d: Jean Negulesco; s: Joan Leslie, Clarence Muse, Nana Bryant, Clara Blandick, David Bruce, Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Alan Hale.)