Saturday, August 21, 2010

The Spanish Main (1945)


Directed by Frank Bozarge
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Saturday matinee swashbuckler tries to mix in a little too much romance with the swordplay. Henreid is the buccaneer terrorizing the Caribbean Sea. He clashes with a pompous Spanish governor who was promised O'Hara as a trophy wife. Henreid has claimed O'Hara for himself after seizing her ship. O'Hara is the feisty aristocrat who initially resists Henreid but eventually falls in love with him. Barton MacLane is fun as Capt. Black, and a little more of him and less of O'Hara would have made the film better.

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