Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
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| Directed by | Albert Lewin |
| Produced by | Joe Kaufmann Albert Lewin |
| Written by | Albert Lewin |
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Ava Gardner James Mason Nigel Patrick Sheila Sim Harold Warrender Mario Cabré Marius Goring |
| Narrated by | Harold Warrender |
| Music by | Alan Rawsthorne |
| Cinematography | Jack Cardiff |
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| Distributed by | Romulus Films (UK) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA) |
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122 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.25 million |
| Box office | $1,601,000 |
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 British drama film made by Romulus Films and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States. The film was directed by Albert Lewin and produced by Lewin and Joe Kaufmann from his own screenplay, based on the legend of the Flying Dutchman. It was filmed mainly on the Costa Brava. The land record speed scenes were shot at Pendine Sands in Wales.
The film starred Ava Gardner and James Mason, featuring Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Mario Cabré and Marius Goring. The cinematographer was Jack Cardiff. Most of the movie was shot on location in Tossa de Mar, Catalonia, Spain, where a statue of Gardner has been erected on the hill overlooking the town's main beach.
MGM delayed its release until Gardner's star-making performance in Show Boat (1951) could be seen. The tactic worked, and this film solidified her status as a rising star.
In 1930, fishermen in the small Catalan port of Esperanza make a grim discovery in their nets, the bodies of a man and a woman. The resultant ringing of church bells in the village brings the local police and the resident archaeologist, Geoffrey Fielding (Harold Warrender), to the beach. Fielding returns to his villa, and, breaking the "fourth wall", retells the story of these two people to the audience.
Esperanza's small group of English expatriates revolves around Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner), an American nightclub singer and femme fatale. All the men love her (or believe that they do), but Pandora is unable to love anyone.
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