The Spanish Main (1945)

movie

(1874)

Country: USA
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Release: 1945-10-01
Director: Frank Borzage
Writers: George Worthing Yates , Herman J. Mankiewicz , Æneas MacKenzie
Language: English
Stars: Paul Henreid , Maureen O’Hara (I) , Walter Slezak , Binnie Barnes , John Emery , Barton MacLane , J.M. Kerrigan , Fritz Leiber , Nancy Gates , Jack La Rue
Runtime: 100 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
AKA: Entführung in den Karaiben (Austria) , Die Seeteufel von Cartagena , Los piratas del mar Caribe (Argentina) , Le corsaire des sept mers (Belgium) , Under blodrøde sejl (Denmark) , Veripunaisin purjein (Finland) , Spanioliki vendetta (Greece) , O Pirata dos 7 Mares (Brazil) , Испанские морские владения , The Spanish Main (United States of America) , Pavillon noir (Canada) , Pavillon noir (France, French Republic) , Pirates del Carib (Spain) , 海賊バラクーダ (Japan) , O Pirata dos Sete Mares (Brazil) , Punaisin purjein (Finland) , Piratii Caraibilor (Romania) , Under blodröda segel (Sweden) , Caribe (Spain) , Nel mar dei Caraibi (Italy) , Los piratas del mar Caribe (Spain) , Avontuur op de zeven zeeen (Belgium) , Der Seeteufel von Cartagena , Ţărmul Spaniol (Romania) , The Spanish Main (United Kingdom) , Barracuda (Netherlands the) , O Terror dos Sete Mares (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Spanish Main (Canada) , En la ruta de los corsarios (Argentina) , The Spanish Main , En la ruta de los corsarios (Mexico)
Plot: Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, Spainish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks the jealous Anne Bonney and, also, Captain Benjamin Black, who was already irked, anyway. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado too.
IMDB:tt0038108