Which 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin features Pandora Reynolds?

The 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin that features Pandora Reynolds is Pandora and the Flying Dutchman. The romantic fantasy stars Ava Gardner as Pandora Reynolds and James Mason as Hendrik van der Zee, the mysterious figure connected with the Flying Dutchman legend.

The film is not a direct retelling of Hesiod’s Greek myth. Instead, it uses the name Pandora for a modern fictional woman and combines romance, fatalism, and the maritime legend of the Flying Dutchman. Its setting includes the Spanish coast and the atmosphere of a visually stylized postwar fantasy.

Albert Lewin wrote and directed the film. Gardner’s role helped make the title character one of the best-known screen uses of the name outside classical mythology. The movie’s plot and imagery draw on mythic ideas of doomed love and supernatural punishment rather than on the jar-opening episode itself.

A common mix-up is to identify this film with Pandora’s Box, the 1929 German film starring Louise Brooks. They are separate productions with different plots, directors, and leading characters.