Errol Flynn Westerns Collection

Film Description

Despite his Tasmanian roots and elegant British diction, Errol Flynn made an ideal all-American cowboy. With his steely gaze, lean frame and understated humour, he tamed the West in a number of thrilling sagebrush sagas. This set features Montana (Enright, 1950), Rocky Mountain (Keighley, 1950) and San Antonio (Butler, 1945).

Montana (1950)

The star heads for the wide-open spaces of Montana in this adventure saga about a bitter range war. Errol Flynn plays an Australian transplant looking to buy grazing land. But the cattle-raising locals wont' sell to interlopers, especially one they consider the most contemptible excuse for a human being ever to cross the Great Plains: a sheep rancher. Flynn's San Antonio co-star Alexis Smith is a flame-hired beauty with an eye for the newcomer... until she learns his occupation. In time, she'll put aside her disdain for the handsome stranger.

Rocky Mountain (1950)

Errol Flynn saddles up for his final Western starring as Confederate Captain Barstow in a brawny tale directed by William Keighley (co-director of Flynn's The Adventures of Robin Hood) and filmed wholly in the rugged environs of Gallup, New Mexico. Co-star Patrice Wymore became Mrs. Flynn weeks before the film's release. And drawling character actor Slim Pickens (Blazing Saddles) makes his debut as one of Captain Barstow's men.

San Antonio (1945)

San Antonio features blazing action in Technicolour® (a rip snorting saloon gunfight), suspense (a tense showdown in the granddaddy of Texas monuments, the Alamo) and a beautiful girl (Alexis Smith as a sultry songbird) to add romantic luster to the heroics.

Virginia City (1940)

In his second Western, Errol Flynn again teams with Dodge City director Michael Curtiz to play an undercover Union officer determined to stop a gold-laden train rolling to Dixie. Randolph Scott is a Johnny Reb ramrodding the shipment, Miriam Hopkins is a beguiling spy, Humphrey Bogart is a pencil-mustached desperado, and pioneering stuntman Yakima Canutt pulls off a daring stagecoach feat.

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