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For all those DVD owners who are Errol Flynn fans or fair tiring, cherish movies of the 30′s and 40′s, Santa Fe Slide is a comely film. Never mind political correctness or historical accuracy (none to be found), fair smile and emerse yourselves in enormous entertainment by gigantic stars…Errol Flynn (JEB Stuart), Raymond Massey (an awesome John Brown), Ronald Reagan (Custer), Olivia de Havilland, Alan Hale, et al. Solid performances by all.
The Roan Group did a superb job transferring the movie to DVD…the sound is excellent and the narrate determined. One can only hope that more of Flynn’s movies will be transferred to DVD. To date none of his truly colossal movies, The Adventure’s of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, Gentleman Jim, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Dodge City, Captain Blood, and Impartial Burma are no where to be seen on the DVD horizon. A exact travesty for all fans of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan star as soldiers out to thwart abolitionist John Brown in this action film dwelling in the years objective prior to the launch of the Civil War. The U.S. is divided on the snort of slavery, and Brown has managed to scamper the pot quite a bit. Flynn’s best leading lady Olivia de Havilland is along again, this time as the tomboy that both Flynn and Reagan like. Van Heflin is a mature fellow cadet of theirs who works for Brown, and Alan Hale is along for another fling with Flynn, providing the funny relief as usual. The performances are all capable, with particular praise going to Raymond Massey as Brown, giving an insane, Jesus-like turn as the man whose motives are moral, but whose means are very, very inferior. The script mixes a lot of action with humour and romance, plus a few political speeches. The jubilant ending seems tacked on, but other than that, it works well enough. A lot of people comment on the historical inaccuracies of this film (it’s even mentioned on the video box description!), but my reaction has always been that you don’t recognize a Hollywood movie for a history lesson. Dramatic necessities will always lead to changing history to suit the film’s needs. Instead, honest sit assist, delight in the action, the chemistry of Flynn and de Havilland, the humour, the grand derive, and simply grasp away the understanding of what the time must have been like, rather than the facts.
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