The Spanish Main

Loving her . . . taming her . . . called for all his reckless daring!

100 mins
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.

Paul Henreid

Capt. Laurent Van Horn

Maureen O'Hara

Contessa Francesca

Walter Slezak

Don Juan Alvarado

Binnie Barnes

Anne Bonney

John Emery

Mario Du Billar

Barton MacLane

Capt. Benjamin Black

J.M. Kerrigan

Pillery Gow

Jack La Rue

Lt. Escobar

Mike Mazurki

Erik Swaine

Ian Keith

Captain Lussan

Victor Kilian

Santa Madre Captain

Antonio Moreno

Commandante

John George

Pirate (uncredited)

Leo Schlesinger

Spanish Guard

Æneas MacKenzie

Original Story

George Barnes

Director of Photography

Mel Berns

Makeup Department Head

Carroll Clark

Art Direction

Claude E. Carpenter

Set Decoration

Darrell Silvera

Set Decoration

Edward Stevenson

Costume Design

Lew Borzage

Assistant Director

Robert Fellows

Executive Producer

C. Bakaleinikoff

Music Director

Vernon L. Walker

Special Effects

John E. Tribby

Sound Recordist

James G. Stewart

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Fred Ellis

Technical Advisor

B. Reeves Eason

Second Unit Director

Stephen Ames

Associate Producer

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