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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Albert E. Lewin (writer)
Release Date:
15 October 1951 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Woman of the year in the picture of the year ! [Australia Theatrical] more
Plot:
Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little spanish seaport named Esperanza... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
Outstanding timeless classic of a story of genuine love beyond the powers of imagination. more (17 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Mason | ... | Hendrik van der Zee | |
| Ava Gardner | ... | Pandora Reynolds | |
| Nigel Patrick | ... | Stephen Cameron | |
| Sheila Sim | ... | Janet | |
| Harold Warrender | ... | Geoffrey Fielding | |
| Mario Cabré | ... | Juan Montalvo | |
| Marius Goring | ... | Reggie Demarest | |
| John Laurie | ... | Angus | |
| Pamela Mason | ... | Jenny (as Pamela Kellino) | |
| Patricia Raine | ... | Peggy | |
| Margarita D'Alvarez | ... | Senora Montalvo | |
| La Pillina | ... | Spanish dancer | |
| Abraham Sofaer | ... | Judge | |
| Francisco Igual | ... | Vicente | |
| Guillermo Beltrán | ... | Barman |
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Runtime:
122 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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For still photography of Ava Gardner, producer Albert Lewin hired his friend, the famous surrealist artist Man Ray. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: The picture that Hendrik carries of his late wife is a photograph. Photography had not yet been invented in the 17th century, when his wife was last alive. more
Quotes:
Geoffrey Fielding: [about Pandora and the Dutchman] I know now that they were in love. But I have a feeling that they never spoke of it. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Married Life (2007) more
Soundtrack:
You're Driving Me Crazy more
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This tragic legendary story of the Flying Dutchman is expertly woven into a wonderful drama about the tale of a beautiful but spoiled destructive lover, night club singer Pandora Reynolds, the beautiful femme fatal played by Ava Gardner. Already giving her hand in marriage to racing car driver Stephen Cameron played by Nigel Patrick she meets the mystical owner of a strange yacht, played outstandingly by James Mason, which is anchored in the port off Esperanza Spain. She is immediately attracted to him and finds a new meaning to her life abandoning her selfish, spiteful deceit with her past life and her other suitors including jealous bull fighter Mario Cabre who kills Mason not knowing he has immortality and where Mason then shows up at a bullfight shocking the performing Cabre, and distracting him so, that he mortally wounded by an attacking bull.
Harold Warrender as archaeologist Geoffrey Fielding provides a brilliant narration of this story throughout the movie and holds it together with gentleman expertise.
The final part of this movie is absolutely moving with the fatal love scene between Mason and Gardner culminating in the cracked hour glass in which they succumb to their mortal qualities in a storm where their lives are consumed and he is released from his imposed curse of wandering the seven seas for an eternity until he could find a woman who was prepared to die for him. This movie was too far ahead of it's time to be fully appreciated by the audiences of the day.
This superb story and direction by Albert Lewin makes it a lost classic. Bring it back.