An epic, exciting and thrilling adventure based on an idea by Paul Henreid and an original story and script devised by the Scottish screenwriter Aeneas MacKenzie, adapted for the wide screen by the American author George Worthing Yates & the American journalist and screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (who had Jewish-German descent).
The full script is here: (
https://subslikescript.com/movie/The_Spanish_Main-38108)
Anne Bonny or Romney was actually a female, Irish pirate of the Caribbean Sea.
Directed by Frank Borzage in Hollywood. George Barnes was nominated for 1945's Oscar award for Color Cinematography, losing to Leon Shamroy's Leave Her to Heaven.
THE GREAT STARS OF THE FILM ARE PAUL HENREID (the double or doppelganger of the philosopher Albert Camus) and the Shakespearean actor FRITZ LEIBER (the double or doppelganger of Burt Lancaster): Henreid and Lancaster were the stars in ROPE OF SAND (1949).
The movie is linked with the 2 Henreid films, LAST OF THE BUCCANEERS (1950) and PIRATES OF TRIPOLI (1955).
The title of the movie actually has a lot of different, figurative connotations and meanings, something -between or- like THE SPANISH SORCERESS OF THE CARRIBEAN, THE SPANIARD WITCH OF THE CARRIBEAN GULF, THE SPANISH DOMINION OVER THE CARRIBEAN GULF, THE SPANISH MISTRAL, THE SPANIARD MAINSAIL, ΤΗE SPANISH MISTRESS, THE SPANISH BARGE, THE SPANIARD GULF or THE AMERICAN GULF UNDER THE SPANISH DOMINION, etc.