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One of Errol Flynn's finest movies, here suitably dashing as Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe, a sea captain battling the wicked Spaniards. A rousing score by Korngold, Robson's feisty Queen Bess, Rains' and Daniell's hissable villains are some of the film's innumerable delights.

Keywords:

Adventure, Romance, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1940) (4 Star)

Cast:

Errol Flynn	.... Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe
Brenda Marshall	.... Dona Maria Alvarez de Cordoba
Claude Rains	.... Don José Alvarez de Cordoba
Donald Crisp	.... Sir John Burleson
Flora Robson	.... Queen Elizabeth I
Alan Hale Jr.	.... Carl Pitt

Supporting Cast:

Henry Daniell	.... Lord Wolfingham
Una O'Connor	.... Miss Martha Latham
James Stephenson	.... Abbott
Gilbert Roland	.... Captain Lopez
William Lundigan	.... Danny Logan
Julien Mitchell	.... Oliver Scott
Montagu Love	.... King Philip II
J.M. Kerrigan	.... Eli Matson
David Bruce	.... Martin Burke

Directors:

Michael Curtiz

Writers:

Howard W. Koch
Seton I. Miller