Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

1951,

2h 3m,

Drama

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67%

33 Reviews

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500+ Ratings

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33 Reviews

75%

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500+ Ratings

Fishermen in the 1930s Spain find the bodies of a 17th-century Dutch sea captain (James Mason) and a woman (Ava Gardner) willing to die for him.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

Nov 5, 2021

4/5

Gardner is indecently radiant.

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TIME Staff

TIME Magazine

Feb 21, 2020

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a Technicolored pastiche of symbolism, the supernatural and old romantic claptrap.

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Variety Staff

Variety

Feb 21, 2020

Albert Lewin produced, directed and did the story and script, keeping this film on an almost unrelieved level of sombre depression.

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Virginia Graham

The Spectator

Feb 21, 2020

Oh the slowness of it all, the solemnity, the splendid tediousness of the sequences, the beautiful boring silences, the long, long looks of love!

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

Feb 21, 2020

Mason and Gardner gaze at each other so tenderly that their scenes are quite touching. And the whole thing is glamorised by inventive visual compositions -- including touches of surrealism - and by Jack Cardiff's typically wonderful lighting.

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Harry MacArthur

Washington Star

Feb 21, 2020

This is truly a somber, moody and eerie piece and you get bored with the mood in half an hour, when Lewin has barely got up steam for the long pull. He seems to relish it, though, and plunges ahead unrelentingly.

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Poe G

Mar 31, 2019

It's a bit pompous, even for its time but still quite enjoyable.

Hermione P

May 20, 2018

I just caught this movie on TCM. Very strange. That's all. Very strange.

Poe M

May 14, 2012

A fantastic dramatic romance that incorporates legend to make a compelling mysterious tale. Perhaps it was a bit much at times with Mason not very appealing and the melodrama, but I fell prey to this story of a woman who played the men like instruments and then threw them away when she was finished. It was reminiscent of the famous Archer works, especially with Cardiff's cinematography and a cameo by Goring. The cast was good with Mason and his poetic pensive manner despite his odd looking hair and somber character. Gardner is appealing and full of intrigue as Pandora. Warrender deserves mention as the guiding objective voice full of antiquity and class. I enjoyed this film. I also have to add my appreciation for the setting in Spain. It captured its interesting aspects of culture with the bull fights, people, scenery and food. 1001 movies to see before you die.

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Albert Lewin

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James Mason

Hendrik van der Zee

Ava Gardner

Pandora Reynolds

Nigel Patrick

Stephen Cameron

Sheila Sim

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Harold Warrender

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Synopsis

Fishermen in the 1930s Spain find the bodies of a 17th-century Dutch sea captain (James Mason) and a woman (Ava Gardner) willing to die for him.

Director: Albert Lewin
Producer: Joe Kaufmann, Albert Lewin
Screenwriter: Albert Lewin
Distributor: Kino Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Dorkay Productions, Romulus Films Ltd.
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 15, 1951, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 3, 2020
Runtime: 2h 3m
Sound Mix: Mono

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