---
title: 'The Sea Hawk (1940)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Michael Curtiz'
released: '1940-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 122
genres:
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-sea-hawk-1940'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033028/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Sea Hawk (1940)

1940 · 122 min · Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American swashbuckling pirate adventure film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures 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. Its screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The rousing musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold is recognized as a high point in his career, along with The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Michael Curtiz](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-curtiz)
- **Screenplay:** [Seton I. Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/seton-i-miller), [Howard Koch](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-koch)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Erich Wolfgang Korngold](https://cinepixo.com/people/erich-wolfgang-korngold)
- **Producer:** [Henry Blanke](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-blanke), [Hal B. Wallis](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-b-wallis)
- **Director of Photography:** [Sol Polito](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-polito)
- **Editor:** [George Amy](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-amy)

## Cast

- [Claude Rains](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-rains) as Don José Álvarez de Córdoba
- [Charles Irwin](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-irwin) as Arnold Cross
- [Clyde Cook](https://cinepixo.com/people/clyde-cook) as Walter Boggs
- [Mary Anderson](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-anderson) as Maid of Honor
- [Jay Silverheels](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-silverheels) as Native Lookout
- [Alec Craig](https://cinepixo.com/people/alec-craig) as Jodocus Hondius I
- [Ellis Irving](https://cinepixo.com/people/ellis-irving) as Monty Preston
- [William Lundigan](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-lundigan) as Danny Logan
- [James Stephenson](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-stephenson) as Abbott
- [J. Clifford Brooke](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-clifford-brooke) as William Tuttle
- [Colin Kenny](https://cinepixo.com/people/colin-kenny) as Officer
- [Francis McDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/francis-mcdonald) as Samuel Kroner
- [Donald Crisp](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-crisp) as Sir John Burleson
- [Errol Flynn](https://cinepixo.com/people/errol-flynn) as Geoffrey Thorpe
- [Flora Robson](https://cinepixo.com/people/flora-robson) as Elizabeth I of England

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-sea-hawk-1940
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