Title: Sepia, We Love You
Product review: Yes indeedy, A. Your eyes deceiveth you not. The Sea Hawk has the Panama section of the film tinted in glorious sepia.Which leads me to a couple of points. Warners toyed with the idea of making this epic in Technicolor. You look at the sets, you can sort of see they were leaning that way. In the end, frugality prevailed, and the suits decided to save themselves half a mil and shoot in black and white.And you know something? I'm glad they did. If you want to see what TSH would have looked like in color, go watch "Elizabeth and Essex." That flick was shot eight months earlier. Same palace sets, similar costumes, all in robust technicolor. The art direction is wonderful, but I don't think it's better than the achievement displayed in "The Sea Hawk." It's simply different.You want a pirate picture in color from this time frame, go watch "The Black Swan." Me, I'll take Curtiz and Flynn over King and Power any day of the week.
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