Errol Flynn Collection

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Six-disc set includes: The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)Errol Flynn is in top form as the dashing outlaw of Merrie Olde England, Sir Robin of Locksley, aka Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to give to the poor, romancing lovely Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland), and battling villainous Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone) and Prince John (Claude Rains) to return King Richard to the throne. Michael Curtiz and William Keighley helmed this colorful classic; with Alan Hale, Eugene Pallette, Ian Hunter, Una O’Connor. 102 min. C/Rtg: PG The Sea Hawk (1940)Director Michael Curtiz’ classic high seas actioner stars Errol Flynn as Geoffrey Thorpe, roguish sea captain and member of a group of English privateers known as the Sea Hawks. On a secret mission for Queen Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), Captain Thorpe plans to stop the Spanish Armada from attacking England while falling for the beautiful niece (Brenda Marshall) of a sinister Spanish ambassador (Claude Rains). With Alan Hale, Donald Crisp. Uncut version; 127 min. BW/Rtg: NR Santa Fe Trail (1940)Focused more on staunch abolitionist John Brown than on the titular transportation route, this frontier drama set in pre-Civil War Kansas follows Brown’s anti-slavery raids as a prelude to the Civil War. Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan star as Major General Jeb Stuart and General George Armstrong Custer, respectively, vying for the love of railroad executive’s daughter Kit Carson Holliday (Olivia de Havilland). Sweeping WB tale directed by Michael Curtiz co-stars William Lundigan, Alan Hale, and Raymond Massey as Brown. 110 min. BW/Rtg: NR Edge Of Darkness (1943)In a small Norwegian village, two years of German occupation was more than enough for fisherman Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn), who channeled his resentments into leadership of the local resistance. His forbearance toward armed uprising vanishes, however, when the Nazis look to make an example of his collaborator and lover Karen Stensgard (Ann Sheridan). Lewis Milestone’s gripping wartime saga also stars Walter Huston, Helmut Dantine, Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon, Nancy Coleman. 119 min. BW/Rtg: NR Objective, Burma! (1945)For special forces officer Nelson (Errol Flynn), leading 50 paratroopers on a drop into occupied Burma and knocking out a Japanese communications center would prove to be the easy part. With their escape airstrip in the hands of the enemy, a return to friendly ground would have to come on foot-through 150 miles of jungle. Stirring combat classic co-stars George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson; Raoul Walsh directs. 142 min. BW/Rtg: NR Adventures Of Don Juan (1948)Latter-day Warners swashbuckler for Errol Flynn casts him as the legendary swordsman and seducer, ejected by scandal from Elizabethan England and seeking personal redemption from the Spanish Crown. Can he resist his forbidden affection for Queen Margaret (Viveca Lindfors), and foil the treacherous designs on the throne of a devious duke (Robert Douglas)? Ann Rutherford, Alan Hale, Robert Warwick also star. 110 min. C/Rtg: NR