What 1951 film, directed by Albert Lewin, uses the title Pandora and stars Ava Gardner as a mysterious woman?

The 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin and starring Ava Gardner as a mysterious woman is Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

The film is a romantic fantasy that combines modern settings with the legend of the Flying Dutchman. Ava Gardner plays Pandora Reynolds, an American living in Spain, while James Mason plays Hendrik van der Zee, the cursed sailor. Their relationship links the film’s contemporary drama to a supernatural tale of doomed love and repeated reincarnation.

Albert Lewin wrote and directed the film. It was produced in Technicolor and is noted for its carefully composed imagery, symbolic objects, and surreal atmosphere. The title’s reference to Pandora suggests danger released through desire, but the plot is not a literal adaptation of Hesiod’s Greek myth.

This film is often confused with Pandora’s Box, the 1929 German silent film directed by G. W. Pabst. The two productions share a mythological title but have different directors, stars, plots, and release years.