#3 in the four disc Warner Brothers Errol Flynn Western collection - Montana. Late Warner Brothers for Errol - 1950, and one more without his trusty sidekicks Hale and Williams. But another movie with Alexis "Billboard" Smith. Like San Antonio, the real star of this movie wasn't Smith or Flynn, but on-location settings in Montana and Technicolor. Technicolor was a new and unique attraction at the time -so new, apparently, that the studios hadn't quite figured out the makeup and lighting yet. At times, Alexis Smith's makeup is so bad in this movie that it looks like they had made her up for The Bride of Frankenstein. Really terrible. The bad guy - Douglas Kennedy - was suitably noxious, but once again Errol had an overwhelmingly forgettable supporting cast. Not a bad movie. Pretty good, actually. But with a better supporting cast, and a better director, it could have been much better.
But not a bad movie. Better plot than the last. Errol is a sheep farmer trying to move his herd onto open-range cattle land. Very similar to Glenn Ford's 1958 The Sheepman, but more western-adventure and less comedy.
Big shocker in Montana - Errol Flynn sings again! A duet with Alexis Smith. Pretty good. And then they fall in love - after she shoots him. Really. Who wrote this stuff?
No comments:
Post a Comment