Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.
Cinematography
Jack Cardiff's Technicolor makes every frame museum-worthy.
Production
The Dutchman ship set built full-scale and hauntingly beautiful.
Acting
Gardner's remote glamour versus Mason's tormented stillness.
Director
Albert Lewin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lewin packed the film with art history: the Temptation of St. Anthony sequence references Bosch, and Hendrik's portrait resembles a specific 16th-century painting of a drowned sailor.
Mario Cabré, who plays the obsessed bullfighter, was a real matador who allegedly tried to actually murder a love rival mid-production. Method acting before it was cool.
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