The Spanish Main

About The Spanish Main

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.

Frank Borzage's The Spanish Main is a 1945 romance film. Its themes are pirate, double cross, arranged marriage, and swordplay.

Paul Henreid appears as Capt. Laurent Van Horn, Maureen O'Hara as Contessa Francesca, Walter Slezak as Don Juan Alvarado, and Binnie Barnes as Anne Bonney. Released in October 1945, it runs 100 minutes.

The screenplay is by George Worthing Yates and Herman J. Mankiewicz.

The Crimson Pirate, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and Captain Blood make useful companions to The Spanish Main, all filed under cannon and caribbean sea. It carries a NR rating.