The Spanish Main

“Loving her . . . taming her . . . called for all his reckless daring!”

Five years after a wreck off Cartagene and a prison escape, Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid) is the pirate captain Don Juan Alvarado (Walter Slezak) never managed to hang. Posing as a ship's navigator, Laurent boards the vessel carrying Contessa Francesca (Maureen O'Hara), who is sailing to marry Alvarado, a man she has never seen. Frank Borzage sets them against each other aboard the captured ship, her pride and his disguise pulling hard.