The Spanish Main

The Spanish Main

Infobox Film
name = The Spanish Main


imdb_id = 0038108
director = Frank Borzage
producer = Frank Borzage (uncredited)
Robert Fellows (executive producer)
Stephen Ames (associate producer)
writer = Aeneas MacKenzie (story)
George Worthing Yates
Herman J. Mankiewicz | starring = Maureen O'Hara
Paul Henreid
Walter Slezak
Binnie Barnes
distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
released = 10 September 1945
runtime = 100 min.
language = English

"The Spanish Main" (1945) adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. It was RKO's first all-Technicolor film since "Becky Sharp" ten years before.

Cinematographer George Barnes received an Academy Award nomination for Best Color Cinematography. Though a box office hit upon its first release, the film is largely forgotten today, despite occasional airings on cable stations such as Turner Classic Movies.

Plot

Dutch sea captain Laurent van Horn (Henreid) is shipwrecked off the coast of the Spanish settlement of Cartagena. After being held and sentenced to death, Van Horn and his crew manage to escape. They capture Francisca Alvarado (O'Hara) who has been arranged to marry the corrupt governor (Slezak). Over time Francisca and Van Horn become attracted to each other and must set out to defeat villainous local politicians and treacherous pirates. The film also includes the character Anne Bonny (Barnes), in a fictionalized account of a real-life cross-dressing female pirate (see List of female pirates).

Principal cast

* Maureen O'Hara as Francisca Alvarado
* Paul Henreid as Laurent Van Horn
* Walter Slezak as Don Alvarado
* Binnie Barnes as Anne Bonny
* John Emery as Du Billar
* Barton MacLane as Capt. Black

External links

*imdb title|id=0038108|title=The Spanish Main


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