The Sea Hawk (All Region DVD) 1940 Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to harry the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons.
Director: Michael Curtiz
SEPIA: The Panamian sequences were deliberately tinted in sepia, as was done with the Kansas scenes in MGM's The Wizard of Oz (1939). Television prints of the film were entirely in black-and-white. The sepia was intended to suggest the sweltering heat of the jungles in Panama.