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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Film Review January 12, 2001
by Marc Savlov
Description: In this Depression-era Coen brothers film, a trio of chain-gang escapees seek a (possibly mythical) treasure while on the lam from a diabolical sheriff.  
by Marc Savlov
"...Again, it's silly stuff to see this American heartthrob and icon dancing about like a scarecrow on corn liquor, but it's also one of the most commanding comic performances I've seen lately. At his best, Clooney, who seems to be channeling the spirit of Johnny Depp as Ed Wood by way of Errol Flynn, could give Jim Carrey a run for his money -- the role is that outrageous..."
The Mask of Zorro
Film Review July 17, 1998
by Marc Savlov
Description: Theoretically, if you take into account some of Einstein's more esoteric theorems (parallel universes and all that), the tale of Zorro has already been filmed several thousand times over. Or...
by Marc Savlov
"...It has the sexy, histrionic vibe of those old Republic serials updated for the Nineties, and would make a terrific double bill with Disney's vastly underrated The Rocketeer. Both films gaze back longingly to the daze of classic Hollywood heroics, and even Errol Flynn would have to admit that Banderas cuts a dashing figure as the revamped Zorro..."
History in the Making
Screens Story February 5, 2010
by Kimberley Jones
Description: A new exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center proves that no job is too small when it comes to 'Making Movies'
"...In the producer portion of the exhibit, a preproduction chart weighs what rival studios MGM and Warner Bros. could bring to the table (respectively, Clark Gable and Errol Flynn, among other variables)..."
Salute Your Undershorts
Screens Story May 2, 2008
by Josh Rosenblatt
Description: The secret Hollywood history behind No Pants Day
"...The first draft of screenwriter Lester Cole's script for Objective, Burma! features Errol Flynn leading a group of American soldiers on a mission behind enemy lines wearing little more than olive-green jockey shorts. Though Flynn is lauded for his performance (and his legs), Cole is promptly arrested on suspicion of Communist sympathies, convicted, and jailed as one of the Hollywood 10 by the House Un-American Activities Committee..."
In Print
Screens Review December 7, 2007
by Melanie Haupt
Description: Film historian Ed Sikov has compiled a loving, slavishly and meticulously researched profile of one of the 20th century's most memorable film icons
"...in the musical farce Hollywood Hotel. It may also be news to some that Davis was the front-runner for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind; the part went to Vivien Leigh because the Warners wouldn't release Davis for an MGM film unless they could send Errol Flynn in for the part of Rhett Butler..."
Stardust
Film Review August 10, 2007
by Marc Savlov
Description: This uneven adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling novel is clogged with too much fairy dust.
by Marc Savlov
"...Specifically, fraught with Pfeiffer as Lamia, the grand dame of a triplet of witchy sisters, as well as seedy prince Septimus (Strong) and his pals Lords Primus and Secundus (Flemyng, Everett). Everyone except Tristran is searching for the fallen star for nefarious ends, and Cox, who barely registers as the heroic archetype in the film's opening is by the end trading thrusts and parries with Pfeiffer and Strong like a lankier Errol Flynn minus the charm..."
The Perfect Ride
Screens Story March 10, 2006
by Shawn Badgley
Description: John Hyams' ode to rodeo stays on for a surprising 5,760 seconds
"...Hyams' "three- or four-person crew" – the same that made 2002's The Smashing Machine about Ultimate Fighter Mark Kerr – shot it so beautifully before editing it so effectively and setting it to a Michael S. Krassner score so instrumentally full, emotional, and juxtaposed, that the viewer feels as if he might be watching Errol Flynn, Clint Eastwood, Aeon Flux (hi, Charlize), and Mel Gibson battle the Death Star instead of cowboys battling bulls tagged Crossfire Hurricane, Mudslinger, Hotel California, and Western Wishes...."
DVD Watch
Screens Review March 11, 2005
by Rick Klaw
Description: The 1990s were a golden era for intelligent, uniquely
designed superhero animation series
"...Captain Blood (Warner Home Video): The 1935 epic Captain Blood, which made stars out of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, established the standard for all pirate and swashbuckling films that followed...."
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Film Review September 17, 2004
by Marc Savlov
Description: This CGI adventure yarn is a loving tribute to all things retro-futuristic.
by Marc Savlov
"...There’s so much going on and so much to savor visually in Sky Captain, and so gleefully retro, without a pinch of irony, is the film (check out who’s climbing the Empire State Building as Sky Captain flies through the canyons of New York!), that it’s easy to overlook the fact that Law, Paltrow, and Ribisi are all turning in some of the most accomplished acting of their careers. Paltrow in particular is spot-on, channeling Barbara Stanwyck via Lois Lane to Law’s Errol Flynn-ish aviator..."
Short Cuts
Screens Column July 5, 2002
by Marc Savlov
Description: Writer / director Tim McCanlies enthuses about his upcoming film, Secondhand Lions; plus, The Alamo gets a new scribe.
"...The script, written years ago by McCanlies (pre-Dancer, TX, and The Iron Giant), follows the hard-luck Osment and eccentric uncles Duvall and Caine, who "tell this kid these Arabian Nights-type stories of their youth," relates McCanlies. "It's a very Princess Bride-type of storytelling, very Errol Flynn kind of stuff." Also on board for the production is -- the Oscars never stop on this one -- Digital Domain, the effects house behind James Cameron's Titanic, among others..."
The Musketeer
Film Review September 7, 2001
by Marc Savlov
Description: Immediately after sitting through Peter Hyams' resourcefully awful “reimagining” of Alexandre Dumas' classic tale of King Louis, Cardinal Richelieu, and the little problems of state that make them whine, I...
by Marc Savlov
"...It was a much more pleasant experience than watching Hyams' film, I assure you. So unspeakably awful is The Musketeer that I was tempted to pursue my own course of systematic demolishment of the film's non-charms, but why waste all that energy when I could be clearing my mental palate with a few choice viewings of the aformentioned Lester version, or, even better, anything featuring a young Errol Flynn..."
Record Reviews
Music Review February 4, 2000
by Jerry Renshaw
"...The Big D Jamboree Live, Vol 1 & 2(Dragon Street) These two discs were culled from countless Library of Congress radio transcriptions (complete with Falstaff beer commercial) and document the mid-Fiftiesí honky-tonk and rockabilly scene at Dallas' Sportatorium. With a total of 54 songs and a detailed 32-page booklet, this is an exhaustive collection with songs by artists ranging from Carl Perkins, Wanda Jackson, and Johnny Cash to Texas locals such as Johnny Dollar, Orville Couch, and country's answer to Errol Flynn, Werly Fairburn..."
Off the Bookshelf
Books Review December 31, 1999
by Karl Monger
"...For the superstitious scandal monger in all of us, this recently revised and updated book of tales asks only that you suspend that tired disbelief in exchange for a camp good time. It offers the otherworldly lowdown on such restless entities as Ozzie Nelson (his ghost is horny), Bela Lugosi, Lucille Ball (her ghost is sad), Montgomery Clift, Howard Hughes, and Errol Flynn (his ghost terrorized Ricky Nelson's daughter, Tracy ....."
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember … Yes, I Remember
Film Review October 15, 1999
by Russell Smith
Description: Surprisingly, the sheer length and creative fecundity of Mastroianni's career seems to have little to do with this unconventional 1997 biography's three-hours-plus running time. Director Tato, the Italian film icon's...
by Russell Smith
"...But from the fan's perspective this is sheer bliss, the next best thing to pouring a couple of glasses of grappa and sitting down with a bona fide film immortal (and world-class raconteur) for a long, intimate conversation. Just about everything you'd hope to learn about Mastroianni's career is here: What it was like to work with such directors as Manuel DeOliveira, Federico Fellini, Pietro Germi, and Vittorio DeSica; how he felt about the reductive “Latin Lover” sobriquet he picked up after La Dolce Vita (a mixture of bemusement and loathing); and how he developed his suave, effortlessly sexy persona (by imitating such screen idols as Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, and Tyrone Power)..."
In Order to Live
Screens Story May 27, 1999
"...D: Raoul Walsh; with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, Sydney Greenstreet...."
An American in Paris (1951)
Screens Story May 27, 1999
"...D: Raoul Walsh; with Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart, Anthony Quinn, Sydney Greenstreet...."
Players, Prisons, Pit Stops, and Girl Gangs
Screens Story March 11, 1999
by Jerry Renshaw
"...Jack Hill: The first movie I can really recall seeing was The Dawn Patrol with Errol Flynn; I was always partial to Warner Bros. since my father worked there from the silent days, before it was even Warner Bros., as a set designer and art director..."
Film Reviews
News Story January 5, 1996
"...CUTTHROAT ISLANDD: Renny Harlin; with Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, Stan Shaw.
(PG-13, 123 min.) Cutthroat Island is the kind of high seas swill that gives piracy a bad name. Directed by Nordic action maven Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2), this extravagantly budgeted pirate movie clearly seeks to recreate the swashbuckling Žlan of the old Errol Flynn pictures from decades past..."
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Film Review August 6, 1993
by Robert Faires
Description: Brooks targets his jokes more toward images of masculinity than Sherwood Forest denizens.
by Robert Faires
"...We get a glimmer of that here, mostly in Rees's Sheriff; Rees takes this silly man quite seriously and it works. Elwes strives to make a real character of Robin -- and he succeeds whenever he can swash and buckle a la Errol Flynn -- but when he has to do an eyeball-rolling take, the gee-folks-it's-a-comedy kind, he just looks like an embarrassed actor..."
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Film Review June 21, 1991
by Marjorie Baumgarten
Description: The only redistribution of wealth engaged in by this Robin Hood occurs at the box office when you hand over your money for admission. What a large scale mess this...
by Marjorie Baumgarten
"...Only in the final climactic scenes of Robin Hood does the movie begin to approach such zestful force. Errol Flynn can rest in peace...."
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