Green Light (1937). Directed by Frank Borzage. Cast: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise and Margaret Lindsay. The film is adapted from a novel written by Lloyd C. Douglas. The novel is related to Douglas' previous book, Magnificent Obsession, which was also turned into a movie.
Newell Paige, life is ruined when he takes the blame for a patient's death caused by his mentor, Dr. Endicott, and is asked to resign.
He packs up and travels to Montana to work on a cure for Rocky Mountain spotted fever with his friend, bacteriologist John Stafford. As luck wold have it, Paige.. is in love with Phyllis Dexter, the dead patient's daughter.
Things become very complicated when she finds out that he also, maybe responsible for her mother's death.
In Montana, Paige begins working to discover a serum to combat the fever, using himself as a guinea pig for his experiments. After learning the truth Phyllis, travels to Montana to beg for his forgiveness just as Paige falls ill. Will she get there in time?
Errol Flynn, looks as handsome as ever. Walter Abel, gives a good performance as a dedicated physician and Henry O'Neill, is also gives a very believable performance as the doctor who makes a serious mistake during the operation. This film, maybe interesting only in the fact that Flynn plays an offbeat role as a physician.
Margaret Lindsay (September 19, 1910 - May 9, 1981), was best known for her supporting work in successful films of the 1930's and 194'0s such as: Jezebel (1938) and Scarlet Street (1945) and her leading roles in lower-budgeted B movie films such as the Ellery Queen series at Columbia in the early 1940's.
Her performance as Hepzibah Pyncheon, in the 1940 film adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables as Lindsay's standout career role.
Dive Bomber(1941). Directed by Michael Curtiz. It is known for both its beautiful photography of pre-World War II United States Navy aircraft and as a historical document of the US in 1941, including the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, one of the best known World War II US warships.
The film was the last of a collaboration between director Curtiz and actor Errol Flynn, which began in 1935 and spanned 12 films. The cast also includes: Fred Mac Murray, Alexis Smith, in her first credited screen performance. Flynn, plays a doctor who works on medical research on pilots, with Mac Murray plays the skeptical veteran aviator. The plot is not historically accurate but, contains elements of true events that were part of the aeromedical research.
Dive Bomber was nominated for an Oscar for Best Color Cinematography at the 14th Academy Awards in 1942. The movie is dedicated to the flight surgeons of the US armed forces, in recognition of their efforts to solve the problems of aviation medicine.
During pre-war operations from an aircraft carrier off Hawaii, the VB-4 "High Hats" bomber Squadron arrive in San Diego, one of the pilots blacks out during a high speed dive and crashes. At the base hospital, Navy Lt. Doctor Doug Lee convinces the Senior Surgeon to operate but the pilot dies on the operating table. After Blake blames Lee for making the wrong decision, the doctor decides to become a flight surgeon.
On completion of his flight training, Dr. Lee becomes a assistant for Dr. Lance Rogers, who is working on altitude sickness project that affects pilots in dive bombers. Lee flies with Blake as his pilot and observes Blake blacking out. He experiments with the successfully flight tests it himself. Even though he has qualified as a pilot, Lee is considered a "grandstander". His judgment over pilots' ability to fly comes into question when he grounds a pilot, Lt. Tim Griffin, who is suffering from chronic fatigue. In anger, Griffin quits the Navy, and joins the RAF in Canada but visits his old squadron when he is flies a new fighter from the Los Angeles. On his return flight, Griffin, finds himself in trouble and is killed attempting to land at an emergency field.
Lt. Commander Blake, volunteers as a "guinea pig" pilot for aerial experiments. The first flight test of a pressurized cabin nearly ends in disaster when Blake passes out, forcing Dr. Lee to take over. During ground testing of a new invention of a pressure suit, Blake realizes that he will not pass his physical and will be grounded. Will Blake go ahead and make the test flight successfully?
I thought this was an exciting and beautifully filmed aviation drama about two naval officers who put aside their personal differences to work together. Mac Murray and Flynn, have very different acting styles, but also work very well together.
The Case of the Curious Bride(1935). Mystery film, the second in a series starring Warren William as Perry Mason.
The story begins when Rhoda Montaine, an old friend of lawyer Perry Mason, who is asked to help a friend of hers who husband, was thought to be dead, is still alive. Rhoda, maybe the one in trouble, Perry has the coroner, exhume her first husband, Gregory Moxley. Instead of a corpse, they find the statue of a wooden Indian. Perry decides to confront him in his home, but when he arrives, he finds Moxley dead. Perry then visits Rhoda, where her current husband, Carl Montaine, reveals that Rhoda has left him to protect him from a scandal. Perry follows her to the airport and has her surrender to the press. C. Phillip Montaine, Carl's father, insists that Rhoda's marriage to his son is illegitimate, which would allow Carl to testify against her. To prevent that, Perry hires another woman to pretend to have married Moxley before Rhoda. Perry's detective, Spudsy Drake, discovers that Moxley is married to showgirl Doris Pender, even though her brother Oscar admits he was at Moxley's apartment on the night of the murder, he denies having committed the crime. Perry throws a party, inviting all the suspects. Will Perry find the real murder?
If you are a fan of the 30's detective films, you may enjoy this film too. Of course... it is always fun to see a yearly Errol Flynn performance.
Fun Facts:
One of Errol Flynn's earliest films, his role consisted of lying on a marble slab as a corpse. There was also a flashback sequence towards the end of the film showing how Flynn was killed. The film in question has appeared at least twice on Turner Classic Movies during Errol Flynn festivals despite his very limited ( less than two minutes) screen time.
Unlike the novels and the Raymond Burr TV series, which used Los Angeles as a location and/or base, here Perry Mason's offices are in San Francisco.
Margaret Lindsay (September 19, 1910 - May 9, 1981). After some minor roles in Pre-Code films such as Christopher Strong and Baby Face, Lindsay was cast in the film, Cavalcade. Lindsay was selected for a small role as Edith Harris, a doomed English bride whose honeymoon voyage takes place on the Titanic.
Her performance in, Cavalcade earned her a contract at Warner Bros. where she became a supporting player, working with Paul Muni, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Warren William, Leslie Howard, George Arliss, Humphrey Bogart, Boris Karloff and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Lindsay was cast four times as the love interest of James Cagney in Warner films from 1933-1935. She performed with Cagney in four films: Frisco Kid, Devil Dogs of the Air, G-Men and Lady Killer.
Lindsay co-starred with Bette Davis in four films: 1934's Fog Over Frisco; in 1935's Dangerous, Bordertown, Jezebel(1938), The Law in Her Hands (1936), in which she played a mob lawyer. Author Roger Dooley identified the film as "being the only film of the 1930s to have a pair of female legal partners". Made after the Motion Picture Production Code came into effect.
Lindsay's favorite film role may have been, The House of the Seven Gables in 1940, with George Sanders and Vincent Price. Directed by Joe May from a screenplay by Lester Cole, the film's musical score by Frank Skinner was nominated for an Academy Award.
Her 1940s film series included Columbia's first entry in its Crime Doctor series, as well as her continuing role as Nikki Porter in, Columbia's Ellery Queen series from 1940-1942.
Lindsay performed in a supporting role in the 1942 film, The Spoilers, starring John Wayne, and in Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street in 1945. While her work in the late 1940s would occasionally involve a supporting role in MGM films, Cass Timberlane with Spencer Tracy, after which her film career began to fade. Her last film was, Tammy and the Doctor (1963).
Early in her career, Lindsay lived with her sister Helen in Hollywood. Later in life, she lived with her youngest sister Mickie.
Margaret Lindsay's sister, Jane Kies (1909–1985), was also an actress named, Jane Gilbert. In 1940, Jane married the son of Hedda Hopper, actor William Hopper, best known for his role as Paul Drake in the Perry Mason television series. Lindsay's niece Peggy Kenline and great-nephew Brad Yates were also actors.
Cry Wolf(1947). Mystery. Cast: Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck, based on the novel of the same name by Marjorie Carleton.
The story begins when, Sandra Marshall, learns her husband James Demarest has died and she tells his uncle, Mark Caldwell, that they were secretly married. Sandra tells Mark, she knows the conditions of Jim's mother's will: Jim's money was to be held in trust until he reached thirty or until he married. She married Jim for his money which she needed to finish her education and was to divorce him 6 months later. He died before the 6 months was up, and now Sandra may inherit two million dollars.
Later, Sandra meets Jim's sister Julie, who is not happy that Mark read a letter addressed to her from Ronnie Manning, the boy she loves. Sandra, is surprised to learn that Jim died of pneumonia and that Mark will not let Julie leave the estate.
That night, Julie runs into Sandra's room, frightened by the sound of screams coming from Mark's laboratory. She, then hears the cries herself.
The next morning, Julie tells Mark about the sounds, but does not mention her visit to Sandra's room. Mark, says that he does not believe her.
Sandra later visits Jim's room, where she notices that his pipes and clothes are missing and Julie becomes upset thinking that her brother might still be alive. When Mark hears this, he locks Julie in her room and tells Sandra to leave her alone.
That night, Sandra eavesdrops on a conversation between Mark and a servant, about the lodge at Three Hills, when she hears a woman's scream. Julie has fallen to her death from her window.
After Julie's funeral, Sandra, is determined to learn the truth, takes a horseback ride to the lodge at Three Hills. Where she finds out that Jim is still alive and he tells her that he will escape and meet her at the house.
Back at the house, Sandra confronts Mark with the fact that Jim is still alive and he tells her that Jim is being kept a prisoner because he killed a man in a fight, a scandal that would have ended the political career of Mark's brother Charles. Jim, now has reached the house and the truth will be known..
I was really looking forward to watching this very suspenseful film, Cry Wolf. Stanwyck, does some very amazing stunts as she rides up and down in a dumbwaiter, rides horses, falls off of a horse, jumps a horse over a fence. Not one of Flynn's best performances, but still very enjoyable. Basehart, is so young he's hard to recognize.
Geraldine Brooks (born October 29, 1925 – June 19, 1977). Geraldine's father was owner-manager of the Brooks theatrical costume concern and her mother, Bianca, was a stylist and designer of costumes.
One of her Aunts, was a singer at the Metropolitan Opera and another Aunt was as a showgirl with the Ziegfeld Follies. Her older sister, Gloria, was an actress.
Geraldine, took dancing classes and attended all-girls' Hunter Modeling School and graduated in 1942 from Julia Richman High School, where she was president of the drama club.
Geraldine Stroock, studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Neighborhood Playhouse and summer stock.
Her debut under her new stage name was in the suspense drama, Cry Wolf, billed third after, Errol Flynn and Barbara Stanwyck.
Her second film, Possessed, was released three weeks before Cry Wolf. This time, she was in fourth, behind t Joan Crawford and Van Heflin and Raymond Massey.
In her third film, Embraceable You, she co stared with Dane Clark, who played a tough guy who falls in love with the victim of the hit-and-run car accident for which he was responsible.
After one more film, The Younger Brothers, she was, again, in fourth place, after Wayne Morris, Janis Paige and Bruce Bennett, Brooks asked for, and received, a release from her studio contract in July 1948.
Now a freelancer, she performed with, Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien and Florence Eldridge in a dramatic role, An Act of Murder(1948), playing the daughter of March and Eldridge, who were married in real life and the trouble that the husband, a judge, faces when he thinks about ending the life of his terminally-ill wife.
The next film, gave her one of her best opportunities in, The Reckless Moment(1949), with, James Mason and Joan Bennett, Brooks, aged 24, was cast as Bennett's 17-year-old daughter, whose reckless affair with a older art dealer puts her mother on a collision course with a blackmailer.
Her next film, Challenge to Lassie(1940), she performed with, Edmund Gwenn and Donald Crisp who, in this version of the classic story, Greyfriars Bobby, once again performed as elderly Scotsmen. Playing the cemetery caretaker's daughter, she had the only female role of any importance, and was also given a couple of good dramatic scenes.
In mid-1949, Geraldine Brooks accepted an offer from Italian production and distribution companies, Itala Film and Artisti Associati, for roles in two projects to be filmed on location, performing with romantic leading men, Rossano Brazzi and Vittorio Gassman. Similar in tone, both are doom-laden melodramas depicting the tragic price women who went into prostitution in postwar Italy. The first released in the United States three years later as, Streets of Sorrow gave her, for the only time, top billing.
Three years later, A. H. Weiler, in his November 1952 New York Times review, said that "Geraldine Brooks, an expatriate American who has emoted in more than one Italian film, gallantly tries to make a wistful and convincing heroine of Maria, the prostitute grasping desperately for a chance at decency". He described the film, however, as "a sad and limp romance, which is trite, slightly lachrymose and largely unedifying".
The second title, Vulcano (later released in the U.S. as Volcano), had an Oscar-nominated (for 1937's The Life of Emile Zola) director, William Dieterle. The adventurous film was filmed off the coast of, Sicily.
After returning to Hollywood , Dieterle told The New York Times that "Conditions for shooting a picture could hardly have been more primitive. Except for the mechanical equipment we took with us, we had to construct everything we needed with our own hands." The film takes Brooks back to her familiar role of an innocent taken advantage of by a exploiter of women, played by Brazzi, while her older sister, played by Anna Magnani, returns to the island of, Naples. As in the case of Streets of Sorrow, this production was also censored and released in the United States years after filming. In its June 1953 review, Time magazine noted that although it is "Reminiscent in story and treatment of Stromboli, Volcano is a far better film. Against the island's backdrop, the yarn's primitive passions do not seem particularly excessive or out of place".
Footsteps in the Dark(1941).Mystery film based on the play Blondie White. Cast: Errol Flynn and Brenda Marshall.
The story begins when investment councilor Francis Warren, secretly writes detective novels under the name,F. X. Pettibone. Later, Francis has an appointment with Leopold Fissue, who wants to convert his uncut diamonds to cash. Francis refuses, until Fissue threatens to expose his secret life, so Francis agrees to meet Fissue later that evening. As luck would have it, the two never meet. Fissue's body is found on his yacht, Francis, convinced that Fissue was murdered for his diamonds. Theater tickets leads Francis to burlesque dancer Blondie White. Francis believes that Blondie murdered Fissue, but she has an alibi at the time of the murder.
Francis decides to take Blondie dancing as part of his investigation and is seen by his wife Rita's friends. Now, Rita believes that Francis is having an affair and hires a private investigator. Blondie tells Francis that she must leave town to escape her ex-husband, Ace Vernon, and asks him for money. When Blondie does not show up, Francis goes to her apartment, where the police, learn that Fissue was involved in a diamond smuggling ring, have found her body. Francis, joins up with the police to help solve the crimes.
Flynn had a gift for suspense. Flynn and Marshall, were good together to bad there was no further sequels.
Brenda Marshall (September 29, 1915 – July 30, 1992). Marshall made her first film performance in the 1939 Espionage Agent (1939). The following year, she performed with Errol Flynn in, The Sea Hawk. After divorcing actor Richard Gaines in 1940, she married the actor William Holden in 1941 and her own career quickly slowed. She starred opposite James Cagney in the film, Captains of the Clouds (1942). The Constant Nymph (1943). She performed in only four more films.
Four's a Crowd (1938). Romantic/comedy directed by Michael Curtiz and released by Warner Brothers. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles, Walter Connolly, Hugh Herbert, Melville Cooper, Franklin Pangborn, Herman Bing, Margaret Hamilton, Joseph Crehan, Joe Cunningham, Gloria Blondell, Carole Landis and Lana Turner. The fourth of nine movies made by Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.
The story begins when the newspaper might be shut down when owner, Pat Buckley, gets into a argument with the Editor-in-chief, Robert Lansford .
Meanwhile, Lansford hopes to add John Dillingwell's business to his PR firm and uses his position at Buckley's paper to write a good review for Dillingwell. He soon finds out that Dillingwell's daughter Lorri, is Buckley's fiancee. Lansford decides to try to charm Lorri while Christy makes a play for Buckley. In the end, you don't know who Lansford will end up with?
Errol Flynn, gives a wonderful comic performance. One of my favorite scenes where he is chased by dogs snapping at his heels chasing him off his girlfriends property. Olivia de Havilland, looks gorgeous as the daughter of millionaire Connolly. A fluffy romance, but... worth watching if you are a fan of these stars.
Margaret Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was known for her performance as the Wicked Witch of the West in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actor in films for seven years before she was offered the role that we all love her for.
In later years, Hamilton made many cameos on television sitcoms and commercials.
She also was an advocate for children and animals, and was commitment to public education.
This legendary couple appeared in 8 films together from 1935 to 1941, all for Warner Bros. They made a varied mix of swashbucklers, westerns, comedy, and period films. Their first pairing came in the rousing Captain Blood (1935), which was Flynn's first starring role, making him an overnight sensation. Olivia had already appeared in three films prior to Captain Blood. I've seen this film twice and it's a beaut. Terrific action sequences and the undeniable chemistry of Flynn and de Havilland on full display. Olivia beat out Jean Arthur and Bette Davis for the role of Arabella Bishop and the rest is history. Blood was so successful Warner Bros quickly paired the duo up the next year for The Charge Of The Light Brigade.
Set in 1854 India, the film had Flynn cast as a British officer fighting the Russians in The Crimean War. Olivia plays Flynn's fiancee. I have yet to see this film so I can't critique on it. But it sounds interesting. For their next film together would be their masterpiece, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Everyone knows the legend of Hood and Flynn was positively electric as the dashing archer. Olivia was equally as good as Maid Marian. Everything came together for this entertaining film. To this day, I still say this is the most vibrant and gorgeous looking film ever made. And one of the best music scores in history.
Screwball comedy was in it's heyday during this time and Warner Bros decided to pair up Errol and Olivia for one called Four's A Crowd (1938). This is another of the duo's films that I have yet to see and since screwball comedy is my favorite genre, I am hankering to see it.
I did see their next film though, the terrific western Dodge City (1939). And let me tell ya something, Errol looks just as comfortable firing six shooters like he does shooting a bow and arrow or swordplay. Dodge City is one of the best westerns ever made and solidified Flynn and de Havilland as one of the premiere on screen couples in film.
They switched gears for their next film, with the historial drama The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex. And while this is not solely a Flynn and De Havilland production because of Bette Davis top billed role, this film showed that Errol and Olivia could make just about any type of film.
When Santa Fe Trail (1940) debuted, it marked the pair's seventh outing and it was another huge success. While it was a very entertaining western, I liked Dodge City more. Santa Fe did have an outstanding supporting cast of newcomers such as Ronald Reagan and Van Heflin.
And lastly, for their final film together, came 1941's They Died With Their Boots On, an film based on General George Custer and his infamous last stand. Another western and another solid hit. At this point, Olivia's star was rising and she wanted more starring roles, so the pair parted ways after a successful 8 film run. They firmly established themselves as the ideal romantic leads of Hollywood period adventures. No doubt. And while Olivia went on to have a successful career post Flynn, he was not as fortunate. Still but before his career ended, he did turn in two top notch performances in The Sun Also Rises (1957) and Too Much, Too Soon (1958). But we will always have those 8 wonderful films he and Olivia did. Nothing can ever change that.
Lili Damita (July 10, 1904 – March 21, 1994) was a French actress who had appeared in 33 movies between 1922 and 1937. She was educated in convents and ballet schools in France, Spain and Portugal. At 14, she was enrolled as a dancer at the Opera de Paris.
She performed in several silent films before being offered her first leading role in, Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925) by director Michael Curtiz, whom she married in 1925 (they divorced a year later). She was an instant success, and Curtiz directed her in two more films: Fiaker Nr 13 (1926) and Der Goldene Schmetterling (1926). Damita also performed in, (Die Grosse Abenteuerin(1927), The Queen Was in the Parlour(1927).
In 1928, at the invitation of Samuel Goldwyn she went to Hollywood, making her American debut in a film titled, The Rescue. Her films include: The Cock-Eyed World (1929), the semi-silent, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) and This Is the Night (1932). A comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle. It based on the play Pouche (1923) by Henri Falk and René Peter, and the English language adaptation, Naughty Cinderella (1925), written by Avery Hopwood. Cast: Lili Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, and Irving Bacon. It was a remake of the 1926 film, Good and Naughty with Pola Negri. This is Cary Grant's first motion picture.
The story begins...While having a night of fun in Paris with her lover, Gerald Gray. Claire Mathewson loses her skirt in a limousine door, arriving home only in her slip, Claire is met by her husband Stephen, a javelin thrower who is supposed to be in Los Angeles for the Olympics. Gerald and Claire insist the trip was to find Gerald a wife. Stephen, hires the down on her luck Germaine, as Chou-Chou, a glamorous actress. After watching them together, Claire becomes jealous, demanding that Germaine leave Venice. Germaine, refuses to give up her wonderful vacation.
This Is The Night, the first of the Screwball comedies that Cary Grant becomes famous for later on. The humor is wonderful and Cary is very funny in this film. It may remind you a little of the silent film format.
In 1935 she married her second husband, Errol Flynn, with whom she had a son, Sean Leslie Flynn (born 1941). Following the marriage, she retired from the screen. The couple divorced in 1942. (Barbara Hershey portrayed her in the TV film My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1985) based on Errol Flynn's biography.)
Escape Me Never( 1947). Cast: Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker and Gig Young. It was adapted by Lenore J. Coffe(uncredited) and Thames Williamson and was directed by Peter Godfrey, with music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
A romance between aspiring composer Caryl Dubrok and Fenella MacLean is quickly ended by her parents when they believe that Caryl living with a young widow named, Gemma Smith and her son Piccolo.
Caryl learns that Gemma lives with his brother Sebastian a composer. Sebastian says that they go after Fenella and clear up the terrible misunderstanding. At first, Sebastian wants to leave Gemma and Piccolo behind, but when she says that she is going accept a marriage proposal from someone else, Sebastian decides to bring her along.
One evening, when Sebastian and Gemma perform without Caryl. A beautiful woman catches Sebastians eye, he does not know that it is Fenella. He sends Gemma home, while Sebastian stays behind with Fenella and is inspired to write the music that he will use in his ballet.
The next day, Gemma goes to the hotel to pick up their pay, she learns Fenella is staying there and explains the mix up. Fenella so upset that Sebastian is really Caryl's brother that Gemma leaves with Sebastian. Gemma and Sebastian marry and move to London, where he continues his work.
The MacLeans also return to London, followed by Caryl, who becomes engaged to Fenella. Sebastian finishes his music and everything is going well until one day during rehearsals, Piccolo becomes very ill. Sebastian refuses to go with Gemma to the hospital.
Fenella tells Sebastian that she has broken her engagement to Caryl and wants to go back to her family's home in the country. While Gemma's life falls apart, Sebastian realizes how much Gemma means to him, and rewrites the music for her. Will Gemma and Sebastian ever find each other again?
I just saw the film, Escape Me Never, on TCM for the first time. I thought it was a very charming film. It is quite a change of pace for Flynn and... he is still very sexy even in rags!
Ida Lupino, was an English-American film actress and director, and a pioneer women filmmaker.
In her forty-eight year career, she performed in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others.
She also performed in television shows fifty-eight times and directed fifty other episodes.
Lupino was born into a family of performers. Her father, Stanley Lupino, was a music-hall comedian, and her mother, Connie Emerald, was an actress.
Ida trained at RADA and made her first movie in, The Love Race(1939).
It was after her performance in, The Light That Failed (1939) that Lupino was taken seriously as an actress.
She called herself "the poor man's Bette Davis."
Lupino best known films are: They Drive by Night (1940) and High Sierra (1941), both opposite Humphrey Bogart. The Hard Way (1943), Road House and On Dangerous Ground.
Objective, Burma!(1945). War film. Director: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Errol Flynn.
Before the recapture of Burma can begin, a radar station hidden in the Burmese jungle must be destroyed. Captain Nelson leads his men through the jungle, aided by Lieutenant Sidney Jacobs and two Gurkha guides. The paratroopers are told that they will parachute into the jungle, destroy the station and head to an abandoned airstrip, where they will be picked up. Middle-aged reporter Mark Williams, will join them to collect information for his book about the war. Nelson believes that Williams age will keep him from keeping up with his men.
They find the station and destroy it, but now the Japanese know that they are there and escape becomes more difficult. The men find the airstrip, but a Japanese patrol prevents the rescue plane from landing. By radio, Nelson's next orders are to be picked up two days later at another airstrip. The men split into two groups.
Nelson's group reaches the meeting place first, a plane drops supplies, because the landing fields have been taken over by the Japanese. Nelson and his men will have to walk through the jungle. Two wounded men from the other group arrives and tells them that the rest of the company was captured by the Japanese. Nelson's men set out looking for them, pursued by the Japanese. Will they get there in time to save the other group of men and get out of the jungle alive?
I just saw the film, Objective, Burma! I think this maybe one of Errol Flynn's best performances.
Errol Flynn, was best known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. On TCM today, is one of my favorite Errol Flynn movies, Adventures of Don Juan(1948). Adventure/romance. Director Vincent Sherman. Producer Jerry Wald. From a screenplay by George Oppenheimer and Harry Kurnitz based on a story by Herbert Dalmas. Cast: Errol Flynn and Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Ann Rutherford and Robert Warwick. Also in the cast are Barbara Bates, Raymond Burr and Mary Stuart. Music score was by Max Steiner. Cinematograper Elwood Bredell. Costumes: Leah Rhodes, Marjorie Best and Travilla.
After a romantic moment with a beautiful woman, Don Juan barely escapes an angry husband, when he and his friend, Leporello, are stopped by soldiers keeping the road clear for a Spanish Duke. Trying to avoid the husband who is hot on his heels, Don Juan pretends to be the Duke, only to find out that he is expected to marry Lady Diana and so decides to play along. Don Juan and Leporello, are quickly arrested after the real Duke arrives and Don Juan is to be deported to Spain in disgrace for his royal punishment. Before Don Juan can leave England, the Spanish ambassador, asks if he would help stop the war between Spain and England. Next in my favorite scene, Once in Spain, they stop to have dinner at an inn. A group of Duke de Lorca's soldiers arrives and start to make trouble for the people in the town. After winning the sword fight with the soldiers, he is accepted by the people as a hero.
When Don Juan meets with Queen Margaret, she tells him that because he pretended to be the Duke, he disgraced the state. Also, he destroyed any possibility of a political marriage, that would have prevented the war, between England and Spain. But when Don Juan takes one look at the beautiful Queen Margaret, he promises to defend her throne and capture her heart.
FUN FACT:
At the end of the film, the young woman in the coach asking Don Juan for directions is Errol Flynn's wife, Nora Eddington.
I really enjoyed this film, the script is great with a lot of very funny lines. Flynn plays the part with a wonderful flair.
Errol Flynn, was born in Hobart, Tasmania, where his father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer and later professor of biology at the University of Tasmania (UTAS). Flynn, described his mother, Lily Mary Young's, family as "seafaring folk" and this is where his life-long interest in boats and the sea began. At the age of 20 he moved to New Guinea where he bought a tobacco plantation and a copper mine in the hills near the Laloki Valley. Both business adventures failed.
In the early 1930s, Flynn left for the United Kingdom and, in 1933, landed an acting job with the Northampton repertory company at the town's Royal Theatre, where he worked for seven months. He also performed at the 1934 Malvern Festival and in Glasgow and London's West End.
In 1933, he performed in the Australian film In the Wake of the Bounty, directed by Charles Chauvel, and in 1934 performed in Murder at Monte Carlo, produced at the Warner Bros. Teddington Studios, UK. This latter film is now considered a lost film. During the filming of Murder at Monte Carlo, Flynn was discovered by a Warner Brothers executive, signed to a contract and traveled to America as a contract actor. In Like Flynn Official Website.
Video about Errol Flynn and Mulholland Farm, his home in the Hollywood Hills that was later owned by gospel singer, songwriter, and radio star Stuart Hamblen, and then by recording star Rick Nelson.