Which 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin uses Pandora’s myth in its title?

The 1951 film directed by Albert Lewin that uses Pandora’s myth in its title is Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

The film is a romantic fantasy drama starring Ava Gardner as Pandora Reynolds and James Mason as the mysterious Hendrik van der Zee. It combines the legend of the Flying Dutchman with modern settings and fatalistic romance rather than retelling Hesiod’s Greek story directly.

The title invokes Pandora as a cultural symbol of curiosity, danger, and transformative desire. It is therefore an adaptation by association, not a literal screen version of the jar episode. The movie was written and directed by Albert Lewin, who also made films such as The Picture of Dorian Gray. Its distinctive imagery and mythic structure helped keep the Pandora name prominent in twentieth-century cinema.