Which 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin used Pandora as its title character?

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is the 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin that used Pandora as its title character.

The film stars Ava Gardner as Pandora Reynolds and James Mason as Hendrik van der Zee, a mysterious man connected with the legend of the Flying Dutchman. It is a romantic fantasy rather than a direct screen adaptation of Hesiod’s Greek myth.

Its title deliberately combines two mythic traditions: Pandora, associated with the opened container, and the Flying Dutchman, associated with a doomed seafarer condemned to wander. The film’s story uses the name Pandora for a modern woman in Spain, not for the first woman of Greek mythology.

This distinction prevents a common mix-up with Pandora’s Box, the title of a separate 1929 German film directed by G. W. Pabst. Albert Lewin’s film is specifically Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.