RKO Radio’s first film in the three-color Technicolor process was the standard-issue swashbuckler The Spanish Main. Paul Henried is his usual stoic self as Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch sea captain shipwrecked on the coast of Cartagena, a Spanish-held island. Sentenced to be hanged, Van Horn and his crew escape from jail and take up piracy as revenge against Spain. Soon afterward, they capture a ship carrying Francisca (Maureen O’Hara), the fiance of Cartagena’s corrupt governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak). Van Horn vengefully forces Francisca to marry him instead, which causes dissension at the Pirate colony of Tortuga. Naturally, Van Horn and Francisca eventually fall in love with each other, but the bad guys must be vanquished before a happy ending can be realized. Binnie Barnes steals the show as feisty female buccaneer Anne Bonney (who in real life looked less like Barnes and more like Walter Slezak!) The script is a cynical melange of pirate-movie cliches and the performances are generally routine, but The Spanish Main pleased the crowd in 1945, posting a profit of nearly $1.5 million and encouraging future Technicolor adventure films from RKO., An early RKO Technicolor swashbuckler in which a Spanish governor ruthlessly orders a shipwrecked crew of Netherlanders to be enslaved and their captain hanged. But with typical Dutch courage, the crew escapes and sets out to wreak a fitting revenge on the villainous Don Alvarado., A Dutch sea captain in the Caribbean is captured and sentenced to die, only to escape with his crew, commandeer a ship and turn pirate, where he kidnaps the bride-to-be of a corrupt Spanish governor.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “The Spanish Main ” ?
A: The main cast includes Paul Henreid,Maureen O’Hara,Walter Slezak,Binnie Barnes,John Emery,Barton MacLane,J.M. Kerrigan,Fritz Leiber,Nancy Gates,Jack La Rue,Mike Mazurki,Ian Keith,Victor Kilian,Curt Bois,Antonio Moreno,Alfredo Sabato,Brandon Hurst,Bob O’Connor,Tom Kennedy,Marcelle Corday,Norma Drury,Abe Dinovitch,Max Wagner,Ray Spiker,Juan De La Cruz,Leo White,Cosmo Sardo,Leo Schlesinger,Jack Wise,Dan Seymour,Ray Cooper,Jamiel Hasson,Alf Haugan,Al Haskell,George Bruggeman,Chuck Hamilton,Jean Valjean,Demetrius Alexis,Carl Deloro,Don Avalier,George Barnes,Carroll Clark,Herman J. Mankiewicz,Darrell Silvera,Vernon Walker,Albert S. D’Agostino,Edward Stevenson,Vernon L. Walker,Ralph Dawson,C. Bakaleinikoff,George Worthing Yates.
Q: When Did the “The Spanish Main” Released?
A: The Movie “The Spanish Main” originally aired on 1945-10-04 and released in the year of 1945.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “The Spanish Main” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “The Spanish Main” ?
A: “The Spanish Main” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
