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Genres:
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Drama /
Fantasy /
Mystery /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Albert Lewin
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Actors:
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John Laurie,
Nigel Patrick,
Marius Goring,
Pamela Mason,
Abraham Sofaer,
Harold Warrender,
Sheila Sim,
Mario Cabré,
Patricia Raine,
Margarita D'Alvarez,
La Pillina,
Francisco Igual,
Guillermo Beltrán,
James Mason,
Ava Gardner
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Duration:
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121 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)85
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Plot Summary:
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In 1930, troubadour Pandora Reynolds, smashing, enigmatic, and fascinated before danger and destruction, has the men of a close Spanish burgh in despair. Lawful when kin driver Stephen Cameron thinks he's won her, a weird yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the romantic Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an evidently more dangerous rival in the state of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora's rapport with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate...
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Tags:
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Lush romance stars Mason as an ancient mariner, doomed to drift on the seas of time until he finds a woman willing to die for his love and thus end the lonely curse. His soul-mate turns out to be Gardner, a melancholic beauty yearning for romance in a Spanish coastal town. Lewin piles on the sense of foreboding as their fatal attraction winds up towards a bittersweet denouement, coloured by Cardiff's atmospheric camera work. Gardner intoxicates and Mason conveys well the sense of mysterious allure that his part requires, but the film's heart is so heavy it sometimes stops beating.
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