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The Sea Hawk is a 1915 novel by Rafael Sabatini. The story is set over the years 1588–1593 and concerns a retired Cornish seafaring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous half-brother.
- Rafael Sabatini
- 1915
The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American adventure film from Warner Bros. that stars Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the launch of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz.
Oct 5, 2023 · Set in the late 16th century, The Sea Hawk follows the journey of a British privateer named Geoffrey Thorpe as he battles against the Spanish Armada and fights for the freedom of his country.
Geoffrey Thorpe (Errol Flynn) is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship, and when he comes aboard, he finds Doña Maria (Brenda Marshall), a beautiful Spanish royal.
With Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Donald Crisp. Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.
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- Action, Adventure, History
- Michael Curtiz
- 1940-08-31
When I first saw The Sea Hawk, I heard muttering about the impossibility of Moorish galleons sailing from North Africa to Britain fueled only by sails and the muscle-power of slaves. But not so long ago, I visited Baltimore, a town in Ireland’s County Cork, which displays a memorial to the ancestral villagers “who were forcibly removed from ...
The story is (very) loosely based on the courageous activities of the privateers who raided the Spanish treasure ships during the reign of Elizabeth I of England (rather convincingly portrayed here by Flora Robson).
