Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
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| Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | |
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| Image:Flying Dutchman1.jpeg | |
| Directed by | Albert Lewin |
| Produced by | Joe Kaufmann Albert Lewin |
| Written by | Albert Lewin |
| Starring | Ava Gardner James Mason Nigel Patrick Sheila Sim Harold Warrender Mario Cabré Marius Goring |
| Music by | Alan Rawsthorne |
| Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
| Distributed by | Romulus Films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | 1951 |
| Running time | 122 min. |
| Country | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 drama film made by Romulus Films and released by MGM. It was directed by Albert Lewin and produced by Joe Kaufmann and Albert Lewin from his own screenplay, based on the legend of The Flying Dutchman. It starred Ava Gardner and James Mason, and featured Nigel Patrick , Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Mario Cabré and Marius Goring. It was shot by cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
- (A film) about a woman unable to love and a man unable to die – a baroque synthesis of classical myth and Germanic legend – Susan Felleman, author of Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin
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Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner) is the admired star of a small group of Anglo-American expatriates in the small Spanish port of Esperanza (the film was shot in Tossa de Mar where they have erected a statue of Gardner on the hill overlooking the towns main beach). All the men love her (or think they do), but Pandora is unable to love anyone but herself, and destroys her admirers with the demands she makes on them, claiming that the measure of love is how much you are willing to sacrifice.
One day, the Dutch captain Hendrick van der Zee (James Mason) arrives in Esperanza. Pandora swims out to his yacht and finds him painting a picture of her. Inevitably, they fall in love. At one point, Hendrick asks Pandora if she would be willing to die for him, which she affirms. When she in turn asks him what he would give up for her, he replies that he would sacrifice his immortal soul, and leaves her.
Shortly afterwards, Pandora learns that Hendrick van der Zee is, in fact, The Flying Dutchman, who murdered his innocent wife in a jealous rage and is cursed to sail the seas until he finds a woman who is willing to die for him. Hendrick has already set sail, but the wind dies and he is stranded in the middle of the bay. As before, Pandora swims out to his yacht, and they embrace, professing their love. A storm then rises up, and in the morning, his yacht is gone -- leaving the fate of the two lovers a mystery.
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