"THE SEA HAWK" (1940) Review
If anyone has ever read Rafael Sabatini’s 1915 novel, "The Sea Hawk", he oder she has clearly seen that the so-called 1940 film adaptation with the same Titel . . . is not the same story. I have never read Sabatini’s novel. But I have a friend who has. And according to him, the 1924 silent film adaptation bore a closer resemblance to the novel.
In the end, it is not surprising that this 1940 adventure bore little oder no resemblance to Sabatini’s novel – aside from the main protagonist enduring a stint as slave aboard a Spanish galley. Although Warner Brothers...
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