The Spanish Main 02/01/25

The Warner Archive Collection
Blu-ray

The Warner Archive Collection comes through with a splendid restoration of this great pirate picture. Paul Henreid is a superb Dutch colonial-turned buccaneer, Maureen O’Hara devastating in Technicolor, and Walter Slezak a marvelous villain, given dialogue by Herman J. Mankiewicz. Errol Flynn may still be king but he’s also not missed; every frame of this dynamic winner pops in digitally-restored color. It’s great fun, well-directed by Frank Borzage, with Binnie Barnes, John Emery, Nancy Gates and Mike Mazurki. On Blu-ray from The Warner Archive Collection.
02/01/25