The Errol Flynn Signature Collection, Vol. 1 (Captain Blood / The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex / The Sea Hawk / They Died with Their Boots On / Dodge City / The Adventures of Errol Flynn) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790797199
Feature: Captain Blood Gallantry in love and war! This swashbuckler made stars of FLYNN and OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND. Dodge City FLYNN earns his spurs in this cowboy debut. The saloon brawl remains an all-timeic! The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex FLYNN, BETTE DAVIS and DE HAVILLAND in a royal showdown of passion and power. The Sea Hawk En garde! Full-mastered adventure with FLYNN an
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 0790797194
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 67040
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 19, 2005
Running Time: 678 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1940
Features:- Captain Blood Gallantry in love and war! This swashbuckler made stars of FLYNN and OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND. Dodge City FLYNN earns his spurs in this cowboy debut. The saloon brawl remains an all-timeic! The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex FLYNN, BETTE DAVIS and DE HAVILLAND in a royal showdown of passion and power. The Sea Hawk En garde! Full-mastered adventure with FLYNN an
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/19/2005
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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
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What was it about Errol Flynn? The bad boy image, the wicked smile, the accent, or the general charm. Decide for yourself in this stunning collection of the best movies ever made by America's first and foremost heart trob from Down Under. Each movie is an exciting full length feature that portrays Flynn at his cinematic best, from the dashing pirate to the cowboy. Olivia de Havilland is his perfect lady in many, their on screen chemistry as electric as anything from Keanu and Sandra.
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I have ordered many things from Amazon and have been very satisfied in the past. This time however was an experience I do not want to repeat. I like the old Errol Flynn movies;Robin Hood,Captain Blood,Sea Hawk etc.so I ordered this set expecting everything to be fine but it wasn't. The first two DVDs I tried locked up or pixelated every few seconds after 2 minutes or so into the movies. I then put them back in the box and proceeded to try to find a telephone number for customer service for Amazon, ... Read More
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I recently was introduced to Errol Flynn in "Robin Hood" and loved him. I decided to venture further into his filmography, so I purchased this collectors set. Not only am I convinced that Errol was an incredibly underrated actor, but I think he is one of the greatest male stars of all time. "Captain Blood" and "The Seahawk" are exciting swashbucklers that make you want to venture back to another time,and Flynn pulls off the heavy task of these period pieces gallantly. "Dodge City" I found to be both ... Read More
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I was disappointed to find Captain Blood and Seahawk both in Black and White since they have been remastered in color for TV. The side pannel covers led me to believe they were in color.
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Neither before, nor since, Errol Flynn's cinema career has there been anyone to equal his screen verve and brilliance. They don't make films so grand and memorable and stirring as these anymore, not least because there's no one about these days who has the gumption and flair to even come near to equalling Flynn's. Moreover, when Olivia de Havilland played opposite Flynn their pairing's movie chemistry was both unique and superb, and it hasn't been equalled before or since their collaborations - even ... Read More
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