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. 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.

Cast

Paul Henreid

Paul Henreid

as Capt. Laurent Van Horn

Maureen O'Hara

Maureen O'Hara

as Contessa Francesca

Walter Slezak

Walter Slezak

as Don Juan Alvarado

Binnie Barnes

Binnie Barnes

as Anne Bonney

John Emery

John Emery

as Mario Du Billar

Barton MacLane

Barton MacLane

as Capt. Benjamin Black

J.M. Kerrigan

J.M. Kerrigan

as Pillery Gow

Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber

as Bishop

Nancy Gates

Nancy Gates

as Lupita

Jack La Rue

Jack La Rue

as Lt. Escobar

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This is quite a fun high-seas swashbuckling adventure that pits a rather oddly cast Paul Henreid as "Van Horn" - a Dutch captain whose ship runs aground on the coast of Spanish America. When the local governor - the undoubted star of the film, Walter Slezak - commits them to a life of slavery Henrie...

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