The Sea Hawk

The Sea Hawk is a 1940 adventure film about an English privateer set in the Elizabethan era, loosely based on the historical figure Sir Francis Drake. While the film bears the same name as the novel The Sea Hawk by Rafael Sabatini, its plot has nothing to do with the novel, and is instead based on a story by Seton I. Miller.

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The Sea Hawk

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:01:28

The riches of the New World are limitless,
and the New World is ours...

:01:33

with our ships carrying the Spanish flag
to the seven seas...

:01:36

our armies sweeping over Africa,
the Near East, and the Far West...

:01:40

invincible everywhere
but on our own doorstep.

:01:43

Only Northern Europe
holds out against us.

:01:47

Why? Tell me.

:01:50

If you will permit me, sire.
Our depleted treasury.

:01:54

An army can advance
only to the end of its purse strings.

:01:56

Nonsense.

:01:58

That is not the real reason, Peralta.
Why not admit it?

:02:02

The reason is a puny rock-bound island
as barren and treacherous as her queen...

:02:07

who secretly gives aid to our enemies
while her pirates plunder our commerce.

:02:11

You know as well as I, Peralta...

:02:13

we cannot keep Northern Europe
in submission...

:02:15

until we have a reckoning with England.

:02:17

It is not yet time, Your Majesty.
Not until the Armada is built.

:02:20

Time?

:02:21

The destiny of Spain
cannot wait upon the fitness of time.

:02:26

I have but one life...

:02:28

and that life is all too short
for me to fulfill that destiny.

:02:33

- Don Alvarez.
- Sire.

:02:35

You will proceed at once to England
as my ambassador.

:02:37

You will assure the queen of my patience
and continued affection...

:02:41

to allay any suspicion
in regard to our plans.

:02:44

As you wish, Your Majesty.

:02:48

With England conquered,
nothing can stand in our way.

:02:53

Northern Africa,
Europe as far east as the Urals...

:02:57

then the New World,
to the north, to the south...

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