The Spanish Main (1945)

A short review. This has almost all of the ingredients for a good pirate movie.  Beautiful technicolor,  a nice score, good set design, wonderful Maureen O'Hara, and an excellent supporting cast (Binnie Barnes and Walter Slezak). We even get some amusing female vs. Female action, which starts with Pirate Barnes calling O'Hara too "Broad in the Beam" and "too soft in the Chest".  Sadly, the movie has a big black-hole named "Paul Henried" where a charismatic leading man should be.  How this old stiff got cast as a Pirate Captain is a mystery. Well, at least they didn't cast Joseph Cotten. Summary All in all, its an enjoyable 100 minutes, but a bad leading man sends it well-down the list of good swashbucklers.