The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The film's screenplay was written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller. The film was digitally colorized in 1991. Colorized versions have been broadcast on American television and distributed on VHS tape, but only the black-and-white versions, both edited and restored/uncut , have been released in DVD formats. Currently there are no plans to... release the digitally colored version on DVD. The film begins with King Philip II of Spain declaring his intention to destroy England and after this "puny rockbound island as barren and treacherous as her Queen" is out of the way, he believes that world conquest will follow: he says his great wall map, one day, "will have ceased to be a map of the world; it will be Spain.
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| Release date: | July 1, 1940 |
| Directed by: | Michael Curtiz |
| Runtime: | 127 Minutes |
| Producer: | Hal B. Wallis, Henry Blanke |
| Editor: | George Amy |
| Music by: | Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| Cinematography: | Sol Polito |
| Screenplay by: | Howard Koch |
| Estimated budget: | $1,700,000 |
| Genre: | Adventure, Action |