Errol Flynn Westerns Collection (Montana / Rocky Mountain / San Antonio / Virginia City)
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Actor: Alexis Smith, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph ScottDirector: Michael Curtiz
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 389 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Errol Flynn Westerns Collection (Montana / Rocky Mountain / San Antonio / Virginia City)
DVD Review: Finally San Antonio is in print!
Summary: 5 Stars
Another great set of Errol Flynn westerns. My favorite is San Antonio but they all are good. For Errol Flynn's fans this is another got to have collection. Many of his great movies are now in print but not all. Where is a mint copy of Dark Passage or Northern Pursuit? Where is Against All Flags? When will we get the rest of the good ones? DVD Review: long overdue
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been waiting for many years for the release of Rocky Mountain and that alone was worth the purchase price of the whole set to me. When I first started looking for this movie I was still firmly entrenched in the Beta format, so that gives you some idea. Naturally all the films in this collection are a must for the Flynn collector as well as fans of the western genre. These films are not the typical Saturday matinee western, but rely on intelligent script and plot and excellent acting as well as lively action. I won't go with the old "Flynn at his best" cliche, because Flynn was always at his best. This collection should be an important addition to your film library.DVD Review: No problem in spite I live in Belgium
Summary: 5 Stars
So I have said above , there isn't no problem and I 've received my order as plannedDVD Review: Where is "Silver River" the boxset was short on one good western!?
Summary: 4 Stars
Errol Flynn fans. Finally one more box of Errol Flynn's western movies, but were are Silver River 1948 a very good western missing, i hope they release it soon maybe in a New Western box by Warner Bros they have so many good western still to put out on dvd/blu-ray.
What about a Robert Taylor Boxset please Warner Bros or release a second volume of "Warner Home Video Western Classic Collection" RT has three big westerns in that box (Many Rivers to Cross/The Law and Jake Wade/Saddle the Wind). but he still has some great western not released yet
"Billy the Kid 1941"/"Ambush 1949"/"Devil's Doorway 1950"/"Westward the Women 1951"/"Ride, Vaquero! 1953"/"The Last Hunt 1953" and "The Hangman 1959". Look for Robert Taylor in Warner Home Video Western Classic Collection (see review soon)
This four Flynn western is very good in glorius b&w and fine color picture quality Warner Bros have done an exellent job and taken the finest print's there is, and put it on dvd and one more thing, "reel dvd cases" not to forget the slim ones i don't like at all sorry to say.
Virginia City 1940 122 min B&W/San Antonio 1945 109 min Color/Montana 1950 76 min Color/Rocky Mountain 1950 86 min B&W some extra material on each dvd
I should given this 5 stars but when they missed to add "Silver River 1948" i give it only 4 stars Why did you miss it Warner?
Enjoy this 4 great Errol Flynn's western now!
DVD Review: Plenty of extras, plenty of action, plenty of good looks
Summary: 5 Stars
Obviously, I like Errol Flynn so I was thrilled when this box set was offered. As with many of the Warner Brothers disc sets, there's the Warner Night at the Movies extra features which includes cartoons, short subjects and newsreels of the year the featured film was released. Perhaps not a group of his best films (as others have mentioned) but enjoyable none the less. Virginia City is my favorite out of the 4 of them, mainly due to Humphrey Bogart and the other top notch stars. Yes, I have the same last name as Rocky Mountain co-star (and Flynn widow) Patrice Wymore, however, I'm not directly related (though my former inlaws are distantly related to her). I think the set is well worth the price (or even better on sale).
Description of Errol Flynn Westerns Collection (Montana / Rocky Mountain / San Antonio / Virginia City)
Errol Flynn Tames the West in these Four Classic Westerns!MONTANA - Big Sky Country is cattle country! But sheep rancher Flynn has other ideas in this gun-blazing range-war saga. Alexis Smith co-stars.ROCKY MOUNTAIN - The Civil War comes to California and rebel leader Flynn finds that marauding Shoshones may be fiercer foes than the Union Army. With future Mrs. Flynn Patrice Wymore.SAN ANTONIO - A man is only as good as his aim when Flynn rides into ol' San Antone to hunt cattle rustlers. A landmark of Western excitement with an amazing saloon shoot-'em-up...and lovely Alexis Smith.VIRGINIA CITY - Union officer Flynn goes undercover to stop a gold-laden Nevada wagon train rolling to Dixie. With Randolph Scott and yes Humphrey Bogart as a pencil-mustached desperado.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?WESTERN/CLASSICS UPC:?085391188216 Manufacturer No:?1000027305Errol Flynn is primarily recognized for his swashbuckling roles, but let's adjust that. As Frank Thompson notes in his characteristically droll and well-informed commentary on Virginia City, Flynn was born to star in period pictures, and that included Westerns. This son of Tasmania slipped into Stetson and six-gun mode without strain, and without having to conceal his somewhere-in-the-British-Empire accent. Which is only fair: the director of his first three Wild West outings was the Hungarian-born, English-language-mauling Michael Curtiz. Not to beat about the sagebrush, the best of Flynn's Westerns--the Curtiz-directed Dodge City (1939) and Santa Fe Trail (1940), plus Raoul Walsh's They Died With Their Boots On (1942)--are not included in this set. Of the four films that are, Curtiz's Virginia City (1940) is much the liveliest, and certainly the most handsome. Set in the closing months of the Civil War, it's about Confederate loyalists making one last effort to stave off defeat on the battlefields back East by transporting five million dollars in gold from the Nevada mining town of the title. Union spy Flynn spars with Rebel counterpart Randolph Scott, as both also vie for the love of saloon songstress and gold-plot mastermind Miriam Hopkins. Warner Bros. hoped to replicate the Dodge City hit formula, even recycling the same town set (albeit in black and white instead of Technicolor) and re-teaming cinematographer Sol Polito (who was better at black and white anyway), screenwriter Robert Buckner (strewing illogic and coincidence with abandon), and composer Max Steiner, as well as Flynn sidekicks Alan Hale and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams. But who thought of (mis)casting Humphrey Bogart as a Mexican bandito--possibly the nadir of Bogie's life as a contract player? On the upside, extensive location shooting around Flagstaff, Arizona, gave Virginia City by far the most striking scenery of any Flynn Western.
Flynn spent the WWII years concentrating on war-related films, but 1945 found him saddling up again for San Antonio (or did it?--he's clearly doubled in horseback longshots). He plays a Texas rancher turned de facto outlaw by virtue of losing his land in a cattle war and being driven into Mexican exile. Never fear, he's soon finessed his way back across the border and set about undermining those who wronged him and his friends. San Antonio was Flynn's fifth Western but only the second in Technicolor--bright, bold color, and lots of it. Truth to tell, it's a bit of a mishmash, with so much skulking around upstairs, downstairs, and backstage at chief villain Paul Kelly's Bella Union music-hall saloon that it begins to resemble Feydeau farce. The script is credited to Alan Le May (The Searchers) and W.R. Burnett, and the direction to David Butler--though Raoul Walsh is known to have lent a hand (surely "Get that drunken cat off the bar" is a Walsh touch). Leading lady Alexis Smith sings a few songs and her brassy red hair is grand for Technicolor, but her romance with Flynn is a pale shadow of their delightful pairing three years earlier in Gentleman Jim. Warner Home Video has yet to release Walsh's Silver River (1948), the last Flynn Western to boast grade-A production values and co-stars, so that leaves two virtual B movies from 1950 to round out the set. In the 76-minute Montana, an Australian sheepman ventures into Big Sky country, "where cattle was king," and overcomes years of bloody resistance to the idea that sheep and cattle can coexist not only peacefully but profitably. Alexis Smith, who had earned her first billing opposite Flynn in 1941's Dive Bomber and is paired with him for the last time here, inveigles him into a frontier duet.
The somewhat better Rocky Mountain (83 minutes) borrows a leaf from Virginia City to propose another Confederate adventure in the West, an Army patrol attempting to join with Rebel sympathizers in California and foment an armed uprising. The mission gets sidetracked at Ghost Mountain, where the presence of hostile Shoshone Indians urges Rebs and Yankee cavalry to make common cause. Flynn plays it low-key throughout, as though his character, a man of honor in a world that scarcely recalls the notion, had already accepted the lostness of his cause. Each member of Flynn's small command has enough of a backstory to sit around and philosophize about--a narrative tactic anticipating how 90 percent of screentime in the coming decade of Westerns on TV would be filled. William Keighley (who would direct Flynn's last Warner film, The Master of Ballantrae, in 1953) breaks things up as best he can with the multi-tiered rockscape setting. Incidentally, Flynn's leading lady this time is his third and final wife, Patrice Wymore, cast as a Union officer's fianc?e whose stagecoach gets ambushed nearby. Each of the films rates its own disc, with accompanying "Warner Night at the Movies" shorts and trailers from the season when the movie was released. Only two boast a commentary, and of these, only the one on Virginia City is worth the listen. Visual and technical quality is excellent overall. --Richard T. Jameson
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