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The Black Swan (film)

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Director  Henry King
Initial DVD release  July 11, 2006
Country  United States
7/10 IMDb

4.4/5 Amazon

Genre  Action, Adventure, Drama
Duration  
Language  English
The Black Swan (film) movie poster

Release date  December 4, 1942 (1942-12-04)
Based on  The Black Swan by Rafael Sabatini
Writer  Ben Hecht (screenplay), Seton I. Miller (screenplay), Seton I. Miller (adaptation), Rafael Sabatini (novel)
Awards  Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Cast  Tyrone Power (Jamie Waring), Maureen O'Hara (Margaret Denby), Laird Cregar (Capt. Henry Morgan), Thomas Mitchell (Tommy Blue), George Sanders (Capt. Billy Leech), Anthony Quinn (Wogan)
Similar movies  Buccaneer's Girl, The Iron Mask, Fortunes of Captain Blood, Pan, Captain Phillips, Castle in the Sky
Tagline  Seas Ablaze...with black villainy, with fiery romance, with breathless deeds of daring...in the roaring era of Love, Gold and Adventure!

The Black Swan is a 1942 American swashbuckler Technicolor film by Henry King, based on a novel by Rafael Sabatini, and starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, and won one for Best Cinematography, Color.

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The Black Swan (film) movie scenes

This was the final film of silent star Helene Costello.

The Black Swan (film) movie scenes

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Plot

The Black Swan (film) movie scenes

After England and Spain make peace, notorious pirate Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar) decides to reform. As a reward, he is made Governor of Jamaica, with a mandate to rid the Caribbean of his former comrades, by persuasion or force if necessary. He replaces the former governor, Lord Denby (George Zucco), but is not trusted by either the lawful residents or the pirates.

Captain Jamie Waring (Tyrone Power) and his lieutenant, Tom Blue (Thomas Mitchell), reluctantly give up their "trade" out of friendship for Morgan, but others of the Pirate Brotherhood, such as Captain Billy Leech (George Sanders) and Wogan (Anthony Quinn), refuse to change. Meanwhile, Waring takes a liking to Denby's daughter, Lady Margaret (Maureen O'Hara), who happens to be inconveniently engaged to an English gentleman, Roger Ingram (Edward Ashley). As it turns out, her fiancé is secretly providing information about ship sailings to the unrepentant pirates.

When Morgan is unable to stop the depredations of his old shipmates, he is suspected of still being allied with them. It is up to Waring to set sail to get to the bottom of things (kidnapping Lady Margaret in the process so she won't be able to marry Ingram).

  • George Zucco as Lord Denby
  • Awards

    The film won an Academy Award and was nominated for two more:

    Won
  • Best Cinematography (Leon Shamroy)
  • Nominated
  • Best Visual Effects (Fred Sersen, Roger Heman Sr., George Leverett)
  • Best Original Score (Alfred Newman)
  • DVD release

    The DVD version of the film contains commentary by Maureen O'Hara with film critic Rudy Behlmer.

    References

    The Black Swan (film) Wikipedia
    The Black Swan (film) IMDbThe Black Swan (film) Rotten TomatoesThe Black Swan (film) Amazon.comThe Black Swan (film) themoviedb.org