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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 22 2008, 07:07 AM Post #1 |
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Warner Bros. has recently released Errol Flynn: The Warner Bros. Western Collection ($49.98), featuring four features and a slew o’ spicy short subjects. Selecting one of the four discs at random (none of the films is available separately; ya gotta buy the set) gave us Virginia City (1940). In the waning days of the Confederacy, Flynn is a Northern soldier who, with his buddies Guinn “Big Boy” Williams and Alan Hale, are sent to stop a shipment of $5 million in gold in reaching Richmond. Randolph Scott is the Confederate spy moving the gold, and Miriam Hopkins is the dancehall floozy who loves Errol and Randy equally but whose heart belongs to the stars & bars. Charles Middleton, who once played Abraham Lincoln, portrays Jefferson Davis. Oh, and you’ll never guess who plays the Mexican bandito after the gold: Humphrey Bogart, in the most ridiculous casting of his career, and no, I haven’t forgotten The Return of Dr. X. Michael Curtiz directs and does a fine job, and Yakima Canutt does his jaw-dropping “hop from horse to horse on a runaway stagecoach” stunt. Virginia City is a fine film and the print simply glows; it’s beautiful. The disc is enhanced by the usual array of Warner Bros. bonus short subjects available as a play-all “Night at the Movies” lineup (I love it when they do that). There’s a pair of cartoons, highlighted by the gag-filled Cross Country Detours and a so-so Gone with the Wind parody called Confederate Honey (which features a very, very brief glimpse of a horribly-depicted black stereotype stamping parking tickets; I wondered if maybe he wasn’t snipped out of the cartoon for the DVD release, as he comes and goes so quickly). Short subjects include a stirring 2-reeler on Clara Bow and the origins of the Red Cross called The Flag of Humanity, and it offers a vivid reminder (since some of us, sadly, need reminding) why the United States shouldn’t be torturing people. The other short, Cinderella’s Feller, is an adorable lavish kiddie musical. Both shorts are in Technicolor. There’s also a newsreel and a trailer for A Dispatch from Reuters, and one hopes the film isn’t as dull as the trailer for it. |
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| Mantan | Sep 22 2008, 07:17 AM Post #2 |
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Read the review of this in the New York Times 2 weeks ago and I wanted at least 3 of the flims included but I want them as separate discs. I don't want the entire sad box set that includes films that display Errol Flynn's physical deterioration from the years he wasted chasing the dragon and the hootch. But, God - I want 3 of these films so flippin' badly... oh well. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 22 2008, 07:28 AM Post #3 |
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Dude, there's only four movies in the boxed set. You want three of them. Think about it. |
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| Mantan | Sep 22 2008, 08:40 AM Post #4 |
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Wow. My error, Sir Gravy. It appears I got my box sets tangled up along with my spurs. I thought SILVER RIVER was one of the titles included in Errol Flynn Westerns Collection (MONTANA / ROCKY MOUNTAIN / SAN ANTONIO / VIRGINIA CITY) (1950) while I'm interested mainly in half the titles from The Errol Flynn Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (CAPTAIN BLOOD/ THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX / THE SEA HAWK / THE Y DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON / DODGE CITY / THE ADVENTURES OF ERROL FLYNN) (1939). Not a fan of MONTANA or ROCKY MOUNTAIN but I want SAN ANTONIO and VIRGINIA CITY in a major way. I'd mistakenly thought that SILVER RIVER was included in the box set you're referencing. It's -of course- directed by Raoul Walsh and is -of course- not included in any box set I can find. It's a lone critter out there orphaned on its own. Wish I could pick and choose titles from both box sets to make my own alternative box set. |
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