Rhonda Fleming

Sterling Hayden

Helena Carter

John Sutton

Paul Cavanagh

Michael Ansara

Raymond Hatton

Alex Montoya

Poppy del Vando

Albert Pollet

David Bond

Donna Martell

Mary Munday

Sidney Salkow

Robert E. Kent

Frank Yerby

Jean Louis

Sam Katzman

Sidney Clifford

Paul Palmentola

Edwin H. Bryant

Jack Corrick

Mischa Bakaleinikoff

Jack Erickson

J.S. Westmoreland

Herbert B. Leonard

Adventure

The Golden Hawk

Esskay Pictures Corporation

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

I'm a fan of the genre - nothing better than a good swashbuckling adventure on the high seas. Well, actually there are plenty better than this rather poor effort. Sterling Hayden is certainly no natural as the eponymous privateer "Kit Gerardo" caught up in the Napoleonic war in the Caribbean. His marauding is perilous, though, particularly once he rescues the feisty "Rouge" (Rhonda Fleming) and discovers that she is also in his line of work - and out to avenge herself on the French. As the warfare hots up, the affianced of the Governor is also apprehended. "Bianca de Valdiva" (Helena Carter) takes a shine to our hero, but he has already taken a shine to "Rouge" but she in turn is trying to get the governor "del Toro" (John Sutton) to catch and hang the man! Still with me? Well, one further complication arises as we discover just why "Kit" is so determined to bring down the governor. To be fair, it does finish strongly with a good hearty battle, but the build up and relentless chatter robs the film of much pace or sense of peril and nobody at all in front of the camera is having a very good - or convincing - day. The production is a bit basic and stage bound which doesn't help, but at the end of the day this is just a let down that has little to redeem it.

English

HD Film Trailer - The Golden Hawk, 1952