A seductive woman falls in love with a mysterious ship's captain.
From memory: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is an over-the-top romantic fantasy that amazes with an exuberant, almost surrealist visual style verging on kitsch (Man Ray actually designed some of its sets); the love story itself is silly.
Halliwell*: "Pretentious,humourless, totally unpersuasive fantasy of the kind much better done in Portrait of Jennie. The writer-director wears Omar Kayyam's moving finger to the bone, and the actors look thoroughly unhappy; even the colour is a bit thick."
Maltin**: "Sorry to say, a big Technicolor bore, one of writer-director Lewin's misfires...Intriguing but unconvincing tale...Only real attribute is Gardner's breathtaking beauty."
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