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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790797199
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 0790797194
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Running Time: 678 minutes
Sales Rank: 9342
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 08, 1939
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Product Description:
Captain BloodGallantry in love and war! This swashbuckler made stars of FLYNN and OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND.Dodge CityFLYNN earns his spurs in this cowboy debut. The saloon brawl remains an all-time classic!The Private Lives of Elizabeth and EssexFLYNN BETTE DAVIS and DE HAVILLAND in a royal showdown of passion and power.The Sea HawkEn garde! Full-mastered adventure with FLYNN and his renegade sailors-of-fortune.They Died with Their Boots OnGen. Custer (FLYNN) and the famed 7th Cavalry ride 'to hell or to glory.'The Adventures of Errol FlynnDEFINITIVE NEW DOCUMENTARY!The man the movies the mayhem! Including new interviews with frequent co-star De HAVILLAND.System Requirements:Length: 649 mins Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 012569704022
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Errol Flynn is one of those names that define movie stardom. Chiseled good looks that stopped just short of being preposterous. A brash and jaunty manner that charmed men and women alike. Whiffs of bad-boy scandal offscreen that only enhanced his legend (not for nothing did 'In like Flynn' become a national catchphrase!). And enough marquee-worthy titles that in memory's ear ring like classics.
Flynn's stardom wasn't on a par with the richly ambiguous artistry of Cary Grant, or the deep, enduring heroic legacy of John Wayne, or the indelible character work amassed by Flynn's Warner Bros. contemporaries Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. Still, this most celebrated of Tasmanian devils was a one-of-a-kind, often raffishly entertaining icon of Hollywood in the '30s and '40s who played a big part in making the golden age glow. And for most of us, to say 'swashbuckler' is to conjure up Flynn's wolfish grin above a rapier, director Mike Curtiz's wall-filling shadows of dueling men, and the symphonic, trumpet-filled music scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Stardom came swiftly. After two small-part assignments at Warners, the studio awarded Flynn the title role in Captain Blood (1935)--in retrospect, a sort of rough draft for his most beloved movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938; not in this collection). The hero, an Irish-born physician wrongly convicted of treason during the reign of King James, is sentenced to a life of slavery in Jamaica. In short order he's charmed his new master's niece (the bright-eyed Olivia De Havilland, Maid Marian-to-be) and contrived an escape with his rebel comrades to become lusty, albeit passionately populist, buccaneers. The film's budget was clearly limited (there's a stark absence of horizons in the tropic and seagoing scenes), but director Curtiz's camerawork cunningly evokes the ever-present tilting and rolling of life aboard ship. Much-Oscar-nominated, the movie certified Flynn as the Douglas Fairbanks of the sound era--even in blond tresses and without what would become his signatory mustache.
If Captain Blood became the Flynn-Curtiz prototype for swashbucklers, The Sea Hawk was the last, luxury model off the line. Warners was always wired in to the zeitgeist, and this 1940 movie about English privateers saving Queen Elizabeth's island nation from the Spanish Armada does double duty as an in-Der-Fuehrer's-face allegory of the looming world war. No blank horizons here, and every wall sports a towering map of a world ripe for conquest. Slickness is all: Claude Rains and Henry Daniell are impeccably devious diplomats, and Sol Polito's black-and-white cinematography shifts into sultry sepiatone when the Sea Hawks sneak off to the tropics on a transatlantic espionage mission. (As for Flynn's mission, his swashbuckling would hereafter be confined to contemporary war pictures for the duration.)
He also saddled up for some lively Westerns. Dodge City (1939) is a knock-down, drag-out barn-burner in brassy Technicolor, with Flynn as a trail boss reluctantly turned town marshal. Curtiz directs yet again, with flair if not necessarily historical conviction, and the presence of Robin Hood costars Olivia De Havilland and Alan Hale (Little John) is virtually mandatory by this point. Ripe villainy is supplied by Bruce Cabot and--substituting, perhaps, for the un-frontier-worthy Basil Rathbone--the fox-faced Victor Jory.
They Died with Their Boots On (1942) is filled with spectacular Civil War and cavalry action, though its hagiographic treatment of George Armstrong Custer should set historically enlightened viewers on the warpath. Nonetheless, it features Flynn's most interesting performance in the collection. Whereas Curtiz was the ideal director for the star in boy's-own-adventure mode, Raoul Walsh elicited more nuanced work from him (see especially their wonderful Gentleman Jim, not included in this collection), and the scenes between Flynn and Olivia De Havilland achieve a tenderness that deepens with each reel. The magic-hour cinematography is by veteran John Ford cameraman Bert Glennon.
And that--apart from a new documentary feature, The Adventures of Errol Flynn--leaves The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). Sad to say, that doesn't leave much. Bette Davis (taking the role Flora Robson played in The Sea Hawk) and Flynn (as the English knight the not-so-Virgin Queen loved but feared as a rival) have zero chemistry; she delivers a mannered performance only a Bette Davis impersonator could love, and Flynn demonstrates how stiff he could be (no pun intended) when clueless about his material. In fairness to both, the movie is a static adaptation of a very repetitious and declamatory Maxwell Anderson play. Its inclusion here is notable only as a vast technical improvement on the long-ago VHS release. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Errol Flynn Review
Having been brought up watching lots of the old style movie actors and actresses, i have very much enjoyed watching these dvds,its great to be able to watch these old films anytime that i like too.They have not lost any of the excitement with age.Errol Flynn portrays each character with superb acting and is still visually exciting as a swash-buckling pirate!He takes on each role and really blends into it, the screen lights up and you become enthralled with the wonderful costumes worn,its easy ... Read More
Rating: - Errol Flynn Signature Collection
I love this collection but would have liked it much better if "Robin Hood" was included or instead of "Dodge City". Such a nice way to start a collection of an actors work whom I've always admired.
Regina Maxim
Rating: - Keep The Flynn's Coming
Warner has been doing it right with their releases of classic films and this is no exception. Like volume 2 of the Flynn Signature collection the quality and films are nothing short of spectacular. They don't make movie stars like this anymore. And he was dead before I was even born!!
My only hope is that Warner does not stop here -- more Flynn Collections Please !! Maybe a WWII collection or Western colletion in addition to what they have already released.
Keep Them ... Read More
Rating: - errol flynn collection
Bought this for my husbands birthday and he love it. He watched 3 movies in one day. Great if you love older movies.
Rating: - Swashbuckling at it's finest !
Errol Flynn certainly earned his place with the likes of Tyrone Power and Douglas Fairbanks. This collection is a must have for those who enjoy the rare cinema jewels of yesteryear. I rank this purchase among my favorites.
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