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Release Date:
October 1, 1945
Original Title:
The Spanish Main
Alternate Titles:
En la ruta de los corsarios
Los piratas del mar Caribe
Genres:
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Production Companies:
RKO Radio Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 100
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
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Art Direction:
Carroll Clark
Albert S. D'Agostino
Assistant Director:
Lew Borzage
Associate Producer:
Stephen Ames
Costume Design:
Edward Stevenson
Director:
Frank Borzage
Director of Photography:
George Barnes
Editor:
Ralph Dawson
Executive Producer:
Robert Fellows
Makeup Department Head:
Mel Berns
Music:
Hanns Eisler
Music Director:
C. Bakaleinikoff
Original Story:
Æneas MacKenzie
Other:
Natalie Kalmus
Morgan Padelford
Producer:
Frank Borzage
Screenplay:
George Worthing Yates
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Second Unit Director:
B. Reeves Eason
Set Decoration:
Claude E. Carpenter
Darrell Silvera
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
James G. Stewart
Sound Recordist:
John E. Tribby
Special Effects:
Vernon L. Walker
Technical Advisor:
Fred Ellis
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