Alan Hale, Errol Flynn, Henry O'Neill
Set in the 1850s, director Michael Curtiz's frontier tale recounts the bloody conflict between the Army and abolitionist John Brown (Raymond Massey) in the years preceding the Civil War. As West Point...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 10, 1999
Stats: 39 reviews
along w/ the always magnetic flynn and de havilland pairing, and costarring an unforgettable ex-president, this curious pre-ww2 piece about the pre-civil war (or "the wo-ah between the states!" as granny clampett used to quip) days is curiously and definitively southern in politi...( read more)
Now THIS was a decent Flynn film, directed by Michael Curtiz. The kind of juicy historical fiction that everybody loves with plenty of cavalry charges, burning barns, treachery, and gunfights. The only part I thought was "eh" was de Havilland's part, grossly underplayed.
Though an old black and white, I really enjoyed this movie. Fun. Neat classy old actors.
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