The Spanish Main (1945) | |
| Director(s) | Frank Borzage |
| Producer(s) | Stephen Ames (associate), Robert Fellows (executive), Frank Borzage (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance |
| Top Topics | Pirate, Swashbucklers |
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The Spanish Main (1945) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Frank Borzage and produced by Robert Fellows, Frank Borzage and Stephen Ames.
Academy Awards 1945 --- Ceremony Number 18 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Cinematography | George Barnes | Nominated |
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THE SPANISH MAIN On Blu-ray From Warner Archive
By Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 11, 2025 From The Hitless Wonder Movie BlogWarner Archive brings out another fantastic restoration of a Technicolor classic with its Blu-ray release of the 1945 RKO pirate adventure THE SPANISH MAIN. Paul Henreid plays Laurent Van Horn, a 17th Century sea captain who is transporting immigrants to the New World. Van Horn's ship is caught in a... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: THE SPANISH MAIN (1945)
By Jennifer Garlen on Jul 22, 2016 From Virtual ViragoThe Spanish Main (1945) revisits many of the same elements as earlier swashbucklers, especially Captain Blood (1935) and The Black Swan (1942), but this time instead of Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power we get Paul Henreid as the heroic pirate, and the actor gives a perfectly winning performance in the ro... Read full article
Classic Films in Focus: THE SPANISH MAIN (1945)
By Jennifer Garlen on Jul 22, 2016 From Virtual ViragoThe Spanish Main (1945) revisits many of the same elements as earlier swashbucklers, especially Captain Blood (1935) and The Black Swan (1942), but this time instead of Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power we get Paul Henreid as the heroic pirate, and the actor gives a perfectly winning performance in the ro... Read full article
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Capt. Laurent Van Horn: Who tells you I do?
Paree: He's such a liar, if he bids me "good morning", I figure it's night, and go to bed. Every word he says...
Capt. Laurent Van Horn: Not every word. Some are true and some are not... a kind of hash. But I won't swallow it before I find out what it's made of.
Pillery Gow: Oh, let's hang him from the yardarm!
Paree: Bring him head-out on fire!
Pillery Gow: No, no, we got to do this properly. Step by step, limb from limb.
Contessa Francesca: Can't you let him live somehow? Find a way for him to do some useful work?
Don Juan Alvarado: Work? No, Contessa, yours is the cruelest of all suggestions.
Don Juan Alvarado: Commandante, in the future, we will apply the word "beautiful" to all the ladies who have previously appeared on these premises. You will now invent a new word meaning "much more than beautiful", which will be applied exclusively to La Contessa Francesca.
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This was the first RKO Radio produced film to be shot in Technicolor.
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