The Sea Hawk

Madison WI: The University of Wisconsin Press. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean as-new book, with no wear whatsoever; the jacket would also be Fine but for a long vertical crease in the front flap]. (Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay Series) Series (B&W photographs) Another entry in this outstanding series of published screenplays of classic Warner Bros. films, this one presenting the full script for (in the words of the editor) "a first-rate swashbuckling adventure film that is literate, lavish, and imaginative." Editor Behlmer's typically erudite introduction presents a well-documented and very readable account of the film's conception and production, which also touches briefly on the already well-established swashbuckling tradition in early films. The film, released in 1940, starred Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall and Claude Rains, was directed by Michael Curtiz, and featured one of the most glorious music scores in cinema history, by the great Erich Wolfgang Korngold. (You should seek out the soundtrack album and play it while reading this script!) This series was primarily distributed in paperback editions, with the hardcover issues being commensurately harder to find. (xx) .