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AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN |
Year: 1950
UK: Park Circus
Cast: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim,
Harold Warrender, Mario Cabre, Marius Goring, John Laurie, Pamela
Kellino, Patricia Raine, Margarita D'Alvarez, La Pillina
Director: Albert Lewin
Country: UK
UK: 124 mins
UK Certificate: PG contains mild violence and references to
suicide
UK Release Date: 14 May 2010 (Limited Release)
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Originally released in 1951, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN is
iconoclastic filmmaker Albert Lewin’s deliriously romantic and
contemporary Technicolor™ visualisation of the often told
legend of the sea, starring two of Hollywood’s most popular
performers. Ava Gardner, in a thinly veiled portrait of herself, is
Pandora, who falls hard for James Mason as Hendrik, a 17th century
seaman eternally condemned to sail the oceans.
This classic Lewin film, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN was a
production made independently of the Hollywood studios, and its
original camera negative has been presumed lost for several decades.
Working from a nitrate separation positive and other sources, George
Eastman House has supervised a painstaking 35mm restoration of the
film, bringing back the rich palette of deep, sensuous colours
utilised by renowned cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
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