Los piratas del mar Caribe

Los piratas del mar Caribe (1945)

The Spanish Main

Siglo XVII. Un barco holandés que se dirige a las islas Carolinas, al llegar al Caribe, embarranca frente a la costa de Cartagena de Indias. El virrey, don Juan Alvarado de Soto hace prisioneros al capitán Van Horn y a la tripulación, pero poco después consiguen fugarse. Cinco años más tarde, Van Horn se ha convertido en el temible pirata Barracuda, que manda el navío del mismo nombre. Para apagar su sed de venganza rapta a la bella Francisca de Guzmán, la prometida del virrey, y la lleva consigo a la isla Tortuga, el refugio de los piratas.

Fecha de estreno
1945-10-01
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (35)
Duración
1 h 40 min
Géneros
Aventura, Drama, Romance
Director
Frank Borzage

Reparto

Curiosidades

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The Spanish Main is a 1945 American adventure film starring Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. It was RKO's first all-Technicolor film since Becky Sharp ten years before.

Development

Paul Henreid wrote in his memoirs that the film was his idea. He said he was "getting tired of being cast as the suave ladies' man and I had definitely decided no more Nazis so I started thinking in terms of something that would be more fun, a swashbuckling part in a pirate story."

Henreid was under contract to Warner Bros.; he wrote up a treatment and took it to head of production Jack L. Warner, who refused to make the film. Henreid said his agent at the time, Lew Wasserman, advised him audiences would not accept him "swinging from the yardarm with a bare chest".

However, the actor remained enthusiastic. Henreid had an existing commitment with RKO to make one film a year dating from his appearance in Joan of Paris, so he decided to take the movie there. Henreid said RKO's then head of production Charles Koerner loved the treatment and agreed to make the film.

In October 1943, RKO announced the film would be their big spectacle of the following year, to star Paul Henreid, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders and Walter Slezak. It was based on an original story and script by Aneas MacKenzie By the end of the month, Sanders was out and replaced by Arturo de Córdova with Robert Fellows to produce.

Henreid said RKO assigned script writing duties to George Worthing Yates but when the actor read the first hundred pages "I hated all of it. It was a completely different story from the one I had concocted and I was furious." Henreid said he refused to make the movie until it was rewritten following his outline.

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