Word: errol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, twice-divorced Errol Flynn, 40, sporting a beard grown for a movie-in-progress based on Rudyard Kipling's Kim, announced his engagement to Princess Irene Ghica, 19, a blue-eyed Rumanian beauty, who had just arrived from Paris with a gift of his favorite food: French snails...
...Greer Garson, Rosalind Russell, Ann Sothern, Errol Flynn, George Murphy, Gregory Peck, Walter Pidgeon...
...would make as fascinating subjects to characterize as the Irene of John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga." An adequate portryal of this subtle, beautiful woman in her relations with one of England's nouveau riche dynasties would require consummate skill and perception. Unfortunately neither Greer Garson nor her lovers (Errol Flynn, Robert Young, and Walter Pidgeon) showed this; but they were not entirely to blame...
...total heroes. The worldwide political snafu that preceded Israel's rebirth is boiled down to the smuggling of Jewish D.P.s through British patrols, a one-sided desert scramble that resembles a gang of dead-end kids working against one slow-thinking cop. The same Englishmen who watched Errol Flynn and Humphrey Bogart win World War II take a brass-knuckle beating in Sword's ostensibly fair-to-everybody script. When the Voice of Israel (Marta Toren) is captured, a Tommy bucks her up by remarking, "I say, what rotten luck...
...certain that the old gags and gimmicks will still work, the studio has wrapped them all up in one supercolossal gag. The whole plot takes place on the Warner Bros. lot. Carson and Dennis Morgan, exuding arch embarrassment, play their real-life selves. So do Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and a few other Warner stars who have been rushed on for bit roles. For ardent movie fans, these peeks at the great may help carry the film. But for most moviegoers, the spoofing is hardly good enough to conceal the laborious spadework...