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So, Arturo, this is really a lifetime of research on Darnell that you're sharing with us. I hope it can come together in a book for you. Certainly your Darnell thread is one great practise run at one.

 

The little remembered lady deserves a champion such as yourself.

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Arturo, you are fully deserving of leo's praise. Your Linda Darnell thread has been a real treat. You have made an in-depth, loving study of an actress that you admire. I wonder about all your sources of information because I didn't know that there is that much information readily available about her (though, I must admit, I don't really try to search for much on the lady).

 

I've always liked Linda Darnell, falling pretty much in love with her when I first saw her in The Mark of Zorro, but appreciating her later work, too, such as in Fallen Angel and Letter to Three Wives.

 

Recently I saw Forever Amber for the first times in years. And it's going to be the last time for years. That is one long film. Darnell's okay in it but even more so I quite enjoyed George Sanders. When he's on screen, with that dry sardonic attitude of his, I think things picked up. What didn't help, however, was that I was seeing an old print off AMC. Sometimes the colour looked lovely, other times the scenes were way too dark. It really wasn't doing the film full justice in that respect.

 

Anyway, Arturo, I know that you will contiue to keep us interested for a ehile to go on the Darnell thread. Good show.

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MovieMadness, thanks for the suggestion of using the Refresh button when things slow down. So far (it's early yet, of course) it has really speeded things up when the message boards are acting slow.

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When it comes to listening to the music on silents I am so grateful to full orchestral scores, particularly if composed by some like Carl Davis. I agree with you whole heartedly regarding organ music accompanying a film. Two hours of that and I'm ready to shoot the organist.

[Zorro and Don Juan - A Great Swashbuckling Double Bill]

One of the things about watching silents is the length of the titles, which can really stretch a film out rather unnecessarily. I recall the first time that I saw The Black Pirate many moons ago it ran about two hours or so because the titles appeared to stay on screen FOREVER. (It was also a black-and-white version of the film, which didn't help, plus it had music that was totally inappropriate-that, of course, can kill a silent) It seems to me that the version of The Black Pirate around today runs about 85 minutes and is a lot more enjoyable. I don't think that any of the fim has been cut, just the length of those title cards.

 

I wonder which version of these films silent audiences saw. Did they have title cards that stayed on screen longer than some of the versions of those same films seen today? I have no idea. You know, my memory of that first viewing of The Black Pirate is so vague, maybe with the bad music and the black-and-white grainy image it just seemed like a two hour film.

 

 

 

 

Yep, this is about the quality of the image that I had of the Black Pirate the first time I saw it

 

 

We sure have it a lot better today with this image quality

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clore, by all means take a look at it and make your own assessment.

 

I saw the Fairbanks Robin Hood and remember finding it painfully sloooooooow. It is known for its gigantic sets which send to dwarf the action. But then I'm really not a fan of most of Fairbanks' earliest swashbucklers. The Three Musketeers (with Doug's favourite role as D'Artagnan) was another slow film for me. And I think his Mark of Zorro is completely overshadowed by the Ty Power version.

 

My favourite Fairbanks silents are his later efforts. I love the Thief of Bagdad, not exactly a swashbuckler, I know, but those wonderful huge sets create a real sense of awe for me, and Fairbanks was quite magnificent in it as a 40 year old man in great physical shape. The sets don't overwhelm the action this time. I'm also partial to The Black Pirate, The Gaucho and his last silent, The Iron Mask, playing, very effectively, an older D'Artagnan. It's been years since I saw it but I also recall liking Don Q, Son of Zorro, for which Fairbanks gained mastery at literally cracking a whip for various stunts throughout the film.

 

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Fairbanks as Robin Hood, with Alan Hale as Little John, the first of three occasions in which this actor played the same role

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Well, after all, he's Don Juan!

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Flynn's Adventures of Don Juan was preceded by two other famous screen actors playing the same role.

 

*Don Juan (1926)*

 

 

John Barrymore, the Great Profile, played the role in a Warner Brothers silent chiefly remembered today as being the first film presented with a synchronized Vitaphone soundtrack of music and sound effects. According to Wikipedia, this film has more kisses than any other in film history, with Barrymore kissing 191 different women. If true, he was a far busier screen Don Juan than any other.

 

Directed by Alan Crosland, whose son would later be editor of the Flynn Don Juan, the Barrymore version is distinguished by some impressive photography, a torture chamber sequence in which its star disguises himself as the torturer, along with, perhaps, the best screen duel of the silent era, between Barrymore and villain Montagu Love (years before playing Don Diego's father in the 1940 Mark of Zorro).

 

Barrymore has a dual role, also appearing as Don Juan's father in the film's prologue.

 

Barrymore would later become a friend of Errol Flynn, who idolized him. Their two lives would wind down similar paths of self-destruction, with Flynn, two years before own his death, giving a touching performance as an aging Barrymore in Too Much Too Soon.

 

The 1926 Don Juan occasionally comes on TCM and is a film well worth viewing.

 

 

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*The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)*

 

 

An aging Douglas Fairbanks travelled to England to play an aging Don Juan in this Alexander Korda production. Korda also directed the film, which co-starred his wife, Merle Oberon, as well as Benita Hume, who would later marry another occasional screen swashbuckler, Ronald Colman.

 

This is a curious comedy-adventure, with some lovely black-and-white photography, but little action and a film that ultimately really fails to satisfy. In his last screen role, Fairbanks pokes fun at his own screen image as a romantic figure. The film's screenplay touches on aspects comparing Don Juan as a legend to the reality of him as a man. Fairbanks has to be called a good sport to be willing to play this rather deflated version of the Don. However, neither critics nor fans were particularly pleased with this film at the time of its release, and it was not a success at the box office.

 

The film is worth a look but certainly not in the same league as either the Barrymore or Flynn versions.

 

 

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Thanks very much for the feedback, TCMWebAdmin, though you don't make it sound as if the problems will be correctly soon with all those complications you referenced. I've never had a problem when I click on anything else under Fan Community except the Message Boards. (I must admit, though, that I don't click on any of the other options very often, though, so maybe I would if I did so more often).

 

Even now, after reading your response I tried to logout for a moment before logging back in to make this response to you. After clicking on logout, however, everything just hung up. After waiting about three minutes or so I tried clicking on the previous page arrow. Didn't help so I had to exit right out of the website before coming back in again.

 

The problems are intermittent, I must emphasize. Sometimes there are no issues at all, other times, lookout!

 

Anyway, thanks for letting me know that the TCM web masters are trying to track down those gremlins.

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Well, Dargo, I must admit that when I originally conceived this thread, I thought that the duelling would be confined to the films on screen.

 

But I want to say that I have appreciated your contributions to this thread, as well as almost all the others who have responded to it. There has been some intelligent discourse here, I feel.

 

Ah, peace, it's lovely while you have it, isn't it?

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Hi Andy. My problem is getting on the boards, perhaps 40 to 50 per cent of the time, though Google Chrome seems to be somewhat better than Firefox or Explorer. Sometimes, once on, the boards will just hang up on me and I have to exit right out and try to come in all over again.

 

Whenever I try clicking on anything else on the TCM website, not that I do that very often, it seems fine. It seems to be only the message biards that are an issue for me.

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Well, I have tried going back a page. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

 

Thanks, Jake, but I am not buying a new computer over this matter because, outside of the TCM message boards, I have no trouble.

 

These intermittent issues getting on have been occuring for a few weeks now. It can be quite aggravating.

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Is everyone else having the same problems that I have in getting on the Message Boards a lot of the time?

 

And it doesn't matter which browser I use - Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome.

 

I lot of the time I just bail because I get tired of waiting. It can happen to just get on the boards, or on a specific thread. Today I tried to send a PM and I'm not certain that it went because it hung up me.

 

I find the message boards can be painfully slow a lot of the time. It is me or is it TCM?

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tlcrg, I'm sorry to hear that you're having blackouts of TCM on Rogers. I get TCM on Shaw Direct in Canada and, so far, have not seen a blackout. I suspect that the source of it is from your supplier.

 

 

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clore, to me the most engaging thing about Against All Flags is Maureen O'Hara as Spitfire Stevens. Flynn was looking rather tired and just going through the paces, I felt, this being his first swashbuckler since Don Juan four years before.

 

I'm not certain but I think that Flynn may have had the same percentage deal with Universal on this production that had made so much money for Jimmy Stewart in Winchester 73, and afterward as well, for Ty Power as The Mississippi Gambler. I've never read anything, though, to indicate that Against All Flags was particularly successful at the box office, so I'm not certain that Errol came out with that much money from it.

 

It's not a terrible film, just so predictable and mundane, very much typical of Universal in the '50s. Your basic cardboard costumer, with a former swashbuckling king in the lead, rather than a Universal contract player like Jeff Chandler or a young Rock Hudson.

 

It is sure no Master of Ballantrae.

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That's a fair suggestion, TB. I did make fleeting reference to the Fairbanks silent in my original post and filmlover provided a greater photographic rundown on the various Zorros.

 

The Barrymore and Fairbanks Don Juans could also be compared to Flynn's. Those are the only three Don Juans of which I know but there may be others.

 

I did not plan on going there, but if there are any Zorro or Don Juan buffs so inclined, it would be nice if they made a contribution. We could, indeed, gain an historical perspective on these two legendary fictional figures.

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Oh, I'd call it pretty back handed when you both compliment them and slap them down in the same sentence.

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Thanks, TB. Nothing quite as nice as a lecture from a "guest" in my house.

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*TB wrote:* {font:arial, helvetica, sans-serif}*Going back to an earlier post in the thread, DON JUAN is a remarkable achievement for both men, considering how unsavory their reputations and work habits may have been.*

 

Well, that's probably as back handed a compliment as either Flynn or Sherman ever received. {font}

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Gee, that's great, TB. I'm going to have to advertise one of my upcoming posts on one of your threads sometime. More to come . . .

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TB, this new information about the difficulties during the making of Don Juan is based, as I said in my posting, on an examination of the actual Warners production notes of the film. This is not just repeating, as others have, what director Sherman said was the case. The production notes tell a different story than did Sherman.

 

As Robert Matzen said, it may be that Sherman simply, after all those years, had a bad memory. Then, again, it may have been by design on his part to make himself look better and put the blame on a dead man. Who can say?

 

In any event, the production notes place early blame for production delays on the shoulders of the director, not star. There's no question that Flynn's breakdown, if that is what it was, caused huge headaches for the film but it was triggered by negative film reviews and it happened when the production was well underway, not after a mere two weeks, as Sherman would have had historians believe was the case.

 

And it's great, that after all these years, Matzen looked at the Don Juan notes in order to make this discovery.

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Adventures of Don Juan, as many of us know, was a highly tumultuous production. I found it fascinating, though, to read the following passage from the Errol and Olivia blog by Robert Matzen. Matzen wrote two books on Flynn, Errol Flynn Slept Here and Errol and Olivia, and he also studied the Warners production notes on the making of Don Juan.

 

Here is a new insight into Vincent Sherman and Errol Flynn on the making of that film that I had never seen before. I really appreciate Robert Matzen for providing film historians with this information:

 

When interviewed for a video documentary about Errol Flynn in the 1980s, Warner Bros. director Vincent Sherman said that Flynn started Adventures of Don Juan, and after a couple of weeks he got a bad review for another picture and went in the tank, which caused Don Juan to become a production nightmare. Sounds good, but it’s not true. Sherman was a charismatic guy and talented storyteller, and I took his story of Don Juan at face value because he was there and should know. But he was telling this story 40 years after the fact and the production records at Warner Bros.—raw data captured day by day—explain what really happened: Flynn was a model citizen on Don Juan for not two weeks but many weeks, and complaints from the producer and unit manager focused solely on Vincent Sherman for not running a taut ship or knowing how to stage the complex action outlined in the script. Due to the director, Don Juan was already weeks behind schedule when Flynn went in the tank in response to bad reviews for Escape Me Never.

 

Sherman, who lived to be 100, threw his buddy Flynn under the bus on that occasion for whatever reason. Maybe he genuinely remembered the story that way, or was feeding back to the filmmaker what was needed for the biopic. Who can say. But it entered the historical record and remains there today, and frankly this story casts Flynn in a bad light as a performer uncaring of his work. In reality, Flynn knew how important Don Juan was to his career and he embraced the concept. He cared very much about this picture and about his performance in it—he cared so much about his work that only when that work was vilified in reviews for another picture did he fold.

 

 

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Wow, wouldbestar, I really appreciate your lovely posting.

 

I'm glad you enjoyed the two films, and I understand your mixed feelings about watching Don Juan, because you know what lay ahead for its star in the coming years. But I tend, as you can see by this thread, to celebrate the film, and celebrate Flynn's performance in it. The critics never gave Errol Flynn his proper due as a performer. I'm glad to see that others, such as yourself, do appreciate his work, even if only in this film.

 

That documentary to which you made reference, The Cruise of the Zaca, was largely filmed in 1946, but not released for another six years. Flynn was quite proud of it. In his autobiography he devoted two and a half pages to it while, ironically, he made passing reference to Adventures of Don Juan exactly ONCE in the book.

 

Here's a little of what Flynn wrote about that documentary:

 

The Cruise of the Zaca was a thoughtful little picture. People still talk about this film. They don't ask me about Robin Hood, they ask about The Cruise of the Zaca. It had tremendous public interest. I sold it to Warners, idiot that I was, for practically nothing. This film, in color, is still playing. There was one heartbreaking incident in connection with it. There was a 1/200,000th inch aperture in the camera that took some beautiful underwater shots, and it destroyed about five thousand feet of film. That minute disorder became magnified so that on the screen a diagonal yellow streak three feet wide ran through the film.

 

It's interesting and a little sad that Flynn wrote, assuming he's not exaggerating, that people didn't ask him about Robin Hood, his most famous film. I guess that at the end his glory days really were very much a thing of the past for him. But I also know that Flynn had a large 16mm collection of many of his old films and apparently watched them quite often. You wonder, though, how many of those viewings were through vodka-soaked vision.

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clore, we're back into dealing with with the auteurists again, and you may well have a valid point. This actually goes back to my Michael Curtiz thread and the fact that, as a "house director," he never got much respect. The same is true of Raoul Walsh.

 

The Curtiz-Flynn films just don't get the same excitement from critics as do the Ford-Wayne films. That has always been the case. As for Don Juan, well, heck, it doesn't even have Curtiz or Walsh as director, so another knock on the film, even though Vincent Sherman does a very admirable mixture in my opinion of the dramatic with the humorous.

 

Actually, if Don Juan had been directed by Curtiz instead I suspect that the melodramatic flourishes would have been greater, but at the sacrifice of the film's scenes of humour. The existing film has a lovely balance of both, I feel.

 

And Dargo raised an interesting point, too, by the fact that Don Juan's status is possibly impacted by the fact that a relatively unknown actor played the chief villain, rather than Basil Rathbone (even though Robert Douglas is quite good in the part).

 

The fact remains, though, that even at Warner Brothers the Flynn vehicles were always regarded as light enterrtainment that made money but weren't going to bring in the Oscar nominations like a Bette Davis or Paul Muni film. Flynn's films never had status at his own studio, possibly as a result of critical reaction to them (great popcorn entertainment, folks, but these ain't exactly works of art-that has always been the response to them). Flynn knew it, smiling on the surface as he collected his big pay cheques but within him he chaffed about it.

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*Dargo wrote: I mean that I think there might be a correlation to the viewers stage of their lives and to the level they might appreciate watching those different personality types.*

 

*I guess my point is that while I can't or shouldn't talk for anyone other than myself and my preferences, it seems the older In get, I find that "world weary cynic" type much more fascinating a character to watch on screen than I do those other three types you mentioned.*

 

 

 

Your theory makes a lot of sense to me, Dargo. I guess that means, in turn, that any younger viewer looking at the key Flynn swashbucklers would make more of a connection with Robin Hood as a character than Don Juan.

 

 

Certainly Flynn remains best remembered as Robin Hood, and undoubtedly that will always be the case. But I find it interesting that it was a Flynn past his prime, yet capable of bringing a cynical harder edge and subtle nuances to his performance as Don Juan that created, for me, at least, a far greater characterization as the Spanish lover than he had in his more legendary role as the Sherwood Forest rogue.

 

 

Flynn had seen a lot of life, both good and bad, by the time he played Don Juan and I think his lifetime experiences enrich the performance. Plus, as you say, add into the equation the fact that Don Juan's cynicism strikes more of an identification cord for me in my later years than does the virtuous idealism of Robin Hood.

 

 

To be honest, though, years before I turned into an old crock, I already had a higher opinion of his Don Juan performance. By the way this is NOT a knock on his Robin Hood performance because I really appreciate him in that film, as well. I have long gained greater satisfaction out of watching him as Don Juan, though, if only because that film provided him with the opportunity to demonstrate his deft handling of tongue-in-cheek humour on screen.

 

 

If Flynn had played Don Juan in 1939, as was originally envisioned, rather than 1947-8, it would have been an entirely different performance. He would have been able to do more in the action scenes, of course, and he would have looked like a million bucks as the legendary lover. But the world weariness that we have in his '48 performance would have been missing, And that would have been a loss. And that, in turn, Dargo, old boy, means that you probably wouldn't have been able to connect with him quite as well today.

 

 

 

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