Talk:The Sea Hawk (1940 film)

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Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

The well-known 1940 film The Sea Hawk was originally planned as an adaptation of Sabatini's novel, but an entirely different story was substituted under the same title. An adventurous and dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe, played by Errol Flynn, feels that he should pirate Spanish ships for the good of England.

The silent film adaptation of the film from 1924, starring Milton Sills, was fairly faithful to Sabatini's plot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mavericstud9 (talk • contribs) 18:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Erm, borrowing that from the article on the novel? This statement in this article is inaccurate and requires clarification:

Sabatini's story of the Elizabethan-era privateer Sir Geoffrey Thorpe was inspired by the exploits of Sir Francis Drake.

As the intro for this article states, the film is only very loosely based on the novel. There was no "Geoffrey Thorpe" in the novel, and the novel's main character is an entirely different personage named Oliver Tressilian. Can someone clarify whether Kael actually believed that Thorpe was a character created by Sabatini, or if the editor who created this statement was completely in error? In either case, the statement is misleading and should be removed. 98.211.124.111 (talk) 21:17, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

John W. Morgan?

The link to the reconstructor of Korngold's score leads to a Canadian lawyer and politician. He seems like an unlikely person to be reconstructing old Hollywood movie scores and no mention of such an unusual interest is made in his article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.119.205.88 (talk) 23:54, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

B&W and sepia-tone

Why no mention of the change from B&W in the first part of the film to sepia-tone for the Panama part and back again to B&W for the last, post Panama, part?

Very few films have used this technique with the best known example being The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) with the pre and post Oz parts being B&W/sepia and the Oz part in total technicolor.

With the rare use of the technique, I think it should be included/mentioned in the article/entry.

This has been added, but it says "the Western Hemisphere." The entire movie takes place in the Western Hemisphere. Maybe "New World" or "The Americas" or something would be more specific.

I changed it to "Panama" to be specific. 2600:8800:785:1300:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 09:40, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Captain Hawkins

When the Sea Hawks appear before Elizabeth, there is a character described as Captain Hawkins, who I think speaks briefly. I take it this is supposed to be John Hawkins, but I don't see him on any cast list. PatGallacher (talk) 19:03, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

OK, just found him on the AllMovie link. PatGallacher (talk) 19:09, 16 January 2022 (UTC)