This textbook example of Hollywood derring-do from the Warner Bros. vaults features Errol Flynn at his most dashing and heroic, squaring off against the Spanish armada and winning the hand of beautiful noblewoman Brenda Marshall. It might appear stale by today's high-tech action/adventure standards, but with a generous stock of swordplay, sea battles, romance, and heroism it's a formula that never fails to please, and one which movie makers have been trying to duplicate (with only mixed success) ever since.
Familiar faces in the attractive cast include Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, the ubiquitous Alan Hale, Gilbert Roland, and Flora Robson, portraying Queen Elizabeth I only one year after the definitive Bette Davis performance in 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'.
Familiar faces in the attractive cast include Claude Rains, Donald Crisp, the ubiquitous Alan Hale, Gilbert Roland, and Flora Robson, portraying Queen Elizabeth I only one year after the definitive Bette Davis performance in 'The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex'.