Which 1951 film, starring Ava Gardner and James Mason, was titled Pandora and the Flying Dutchman?

The 1951 film starring Ava Gardner and James Mason was titled Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

Directed by Albert Lewin, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a romantic fantasy drama set largely in Spain. Gardner plays Pandora Reynolds, while Mason plays Hendrik van der Zee, a mysterious man connected to the legend of the Flying Dutchman. The film combines modern melodrama with supernatural and mythic elements.

Its title uses “Pandora” as a symbolic reference rather than presenting a literal adaptation of Hesiod’s Greek story. The film’s plot focuses on doomed love, fate, and the curse associated with the legendary ghost ship and its captain.

The movie is sometimes confused with Pandora’s Box, the 1929 German silent film starring Louise Brooks. They are different productions, made more than two decades apart, with different stories, casts, directors, and uses of the Pandora name.