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Post by Chicago Jake on Jun 16, 2009 0:34:16 GMT -6
I always knew that Errol Flynn was a great swashbuckler, but I never knew before tonight that he was a great actor, too! AMC showed the 1957 version of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises," with Tyrone Power, Eva Gardner, Eddie Albert, Mel Ferrer, and Errol Flynn. As a big Hemingway fan, I never would have believed that Hollywood, especially in the 50s, could have done him justice. And I was right! From the director to the cinematographer to the actors and everyone else, nobody involved in this movie grokked Hemingway, except Flynn. He totally nailed the feeling of the book: the hopeless, rudderless, purposeless drunken existence masked by desperate jocularity that all the characters (in the book) lived to such depraved and indifferent depths. He was the only one that made you feel it. So, as a movie review, I have to say it's not that great. But if you want to see a great performance, it's thumbs up for Flynn. Bravo, Errol!! You rock.......Jake
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Post by Merlot Joe on Jun 17, 2009 11:26:51 GMT -6
Never seen this move but we like to wacth all the old Cary Grant flicks.
I Put this one on my list of oldies to watch.
Joe
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