OK, so now it starts. I watched The Sisters this morning on TCM - Errol Flynn movie number 1 (but not the best) in the effort. And the first Errol Flynn-Bette Davis film.
Pretty good movie, based on a novel by Myron Brinig (alas, not Chekhov), who wrote a series of novels about Montana. He was also really, really gay - but that's neither here nor there. Well, perhaps it is. Several of the characters in his books were pretty obviously gay, which was pretty risque stuff in the 1930s. As a result, though his books were popular, they weren't reviewed by the literary critics of the day as one would have expected. Brinig was pretty much ignored by the literary community of his day, and as a result is pretty much forgotten today.
Back to the movie. A big part of the plot revolves around the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Incredible special effects on an era before computer imaging.
And my favorite line of the movie - "You look like someone they forgot to bury."
Followed closely by - "We drank heavily and fought over the women."
Good early Errol. Still at his peak. Good stuff.
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