REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1941, Page 2

REGENT THEATRE

"THE SEA HAWK." The "Sea Hawk," which will be shown tonight at the Regent Theatre is due for a tremendous success, not only for its historic parallels —it recalls the birth of the British Navy in answer to the menace of the Spanish Armada at a time when Spain had Napoleonic dreams of European Conquest—but because of the splendid acting of Errol Flynn as Captain Thorj>c, one of Elizabeth's disowned but privately abetted privateers. Captain Thorpe has the rugged courtiership and independence- to win the heart of the Warrior Queen, but it is as captain of the Albatross, scourge of Spanish galleys, that ho shines. The sea lights arc thrillingly real, the scenes below decks, where the chained galley slaves sweat in filth in the halfdark. the ambush in the sticky tropical heat m* the Panama forests, even the treachery in the English Court have such tierce actuality that the audience is cairicd away, England then, as now, was faced with invasion, and the spirit that responds m the Sea, Hawk to the situation i . sb.own m' cv< ry phase of a long Hint that wink-, by all t< o quickly Brenda Marshall,! captured from a Spanish ship <>n her: way m Elizabeth’;. C art, wins the hero*;. fi-ry heart, ami Claude limns. Flora R--b .on, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, William Lundignn. Henry Danis-!!, and Una O'Connor are included in the strong supporting cast. There are ('xcelb-nt ■■"Upports.