Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 19, 1940

The Sea Hawk (Warner) is 1940's lustiest assault on the double feature. It cost $1,700,000, exhibits Errol Flynn and 3,000 other cinemactors performing every imaginable feat of spectacular derring-do, and lasts two hours and seven minutes.

Any cinemaddict who after seeing it does not know enough to go home is probably capable of being initiated into the Odd Fellows twice on the same night.

The Sea Hawk is no relative of Rafael Sabatini's book of the same name. The sea hawks, as students of English history and those who saw the 1924 version of...

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