Categorizing every Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power film I've seen

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(To be updated as needed, naturally.)

Close To My Heart

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Captain Blood
The Dawn Patrol
The Mark of Zorro
Nightmare Alley
Prince of Foxes
The Razor's Edge

Not My Favorite, But Still Good

Adventures of Don Juan
Blood and Sand
Northern Pursuit
The Rains Came
The Sea Hawk

Son of Fury
They Died With Their Boots On

It's Okay, I Guess

The Black Swan
Gentleman Jim
In Old Chicago
Jesse James
The Master of Ballantrae
Objective, Burma!
Santa Fe Trail
This Above All
Virginia City
Witness for the Prosecution

Would Re-Watch If I Were Desperate

Captain From Castile
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Sun Also Rises

Thumbs Down

The Black Rose
Dodge City
Marie Antoinette
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Comments

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I liked "Charge of the Light Brigade" -- as Hollywood history films that bear no relationship to real events go, it has the immeasurable advantage of not being an American flag-waver :-p And it has David Niven, Patric Knowles and Donald Crisp in it...
I certainly liked it vastly more than "The Sun Also Rises", which was a massive disappointment. Did you ever see "The Roots of Heaven", which was (in my view) an immeasurably better film, both in terms of Flynn's performance at that stage of his career, and in terms of its appeal overall?

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I think one of my biggest problems with The Charge of the Light Brigade was de Havilland's character being in love with Niven's character and not with Flynn's character. :P Aside from that, it was my third Flynn film after The Adventures of Robin Hood and Captain Blood, and it didn't grab me the way the other two did. I'm not sure why. The ending did make me cry, though.

I certainly liked it vastly more than "The Sun Also Rises", which was a massive disappointment.

Why did you do that to yourself? It's a boring film, and seeing Flynn and Power reduced to shells of their former selves is downright depressing!

Did you ever see "The Roots of Heaven", which was (in my view) an immeasurably better film, both in terms of Flynn's performance at that stage of his career, and in terms of its appeal overall?

It's not on this list, so no, I haven't seen it. I've spent the better part of the past four years trying to watch as many Errol Flynn films as possible, though, so I'll probably get around to it at some point.

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I liked "Charge of the Light Brigade" better than "Captain Blood" (at least back when I last saw it), partly --probably mostly-- because Flynn is a much more accomplished actor by that stage, and partly because I really like the themes of the noble hero who gives up the woman he loves to the man she loves (unless he's Erik, who isn't noble :-p) and of betrayal and revenge.
The embarrassed grinning in "Captain Blood" is a bit... embarrassing :-(

Why did you do that to yourself? It's a boring film, and seeing Flynn and Power reduced to shells of their former selves is downright depressing!
Because everyone said what a wonderful film it was and how great Flynn was in his comeback role -- it wasn't, and he wasn't :-(
Even if he had been great in it I don't know that I would have liked it, but his part is unmemorable and he does nothing to make it more so.
As opposed to "Lilacs in the Spring", where he has a minor supporting role and makes it into one of the highlights of that film, "Master of Ballantrae", where he pulls off a convincing swashbuckler role despite his physical condition, or "The Roots of Heaven", where he has a minor supporting role in a powerful offbeat film and makes us care about the character...

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Because everyone said what a wonderful film it was and how great Flynn was in his comeback role -- it wasn't, and he wasn't :-(
Even if he had been great in it I don't know that I would have liked it, but his part is unmemorable and he does nothing to make it more so.

Nothing about The Sun Also Rises is memorable, and I was left with the impression that the characters had all ended up right back where they started, so there was really no point to anything that happened. At least Errol made me laugh once or twice while watching it.