{"id":554,"date":"2010-10-12T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2010-10-12T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:40:30","slug":"flynn-in-wwii-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Flynn in WWII, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ErrolFlynnAdvColl_TCM.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1121\" title=\"ErrolFlynnAdvColl_TCM\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ErrolFlynnAdvColl_TCM.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>The busy week begins with reviews for a quartet of WWII films (via Warner Home Video) starring Errol Flynn, as he moved from swashbuckling adventure films to romances, westerns, dramas, and war actioners during the early forties.<\/p>\n<p>The first film, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/3707_DiveBomber1941.htm\">Dive Bomber<\/a><\/strong> (1941), is really pre-WWII, but one senses the movie&#8217;s psychological effect hard and fast: preparing the American moviegoing public for the inevitability of WWII &#8211; a message that happened to precede the bombing of Pearl Harbor by  few months. Flynn plays a surgeon, and the movie&#8217;s quite an involving drama, with suspenseful aerial  scenes instead of gung ho combat sequences.<\/p>\n<p>TCM&#8217;s latest Spotlight series is on Flynn&#8217;s wartime action films, and I&#8217;ve uploaded reviews of the first 3 of 5 films in this highly recommened boxed set: Flynn as an Aussie in the bombing run thriller <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/d\/3704_DesperateJourney1942.htm\">Desperate Journey<\/a><\/strong> (1942), Flynn playing a Norwegian (!) anti-Nazi rebel in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/e\/3705_EdgeDarkness1943.htm\">Edge of Darkness<\/a><\/strong> (1943), and Flynn playing a RCMP officer  (!!) in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/n2o\/3706_NorthernPursuit1943.htm\">Northern Pursuit<\/a><\/strong>(1943).<\/p>\n<p>You know, he wasn&#8217;t bad as a Canadian!<\/p>\n<p>Coming shortly are the remaining two titles in the set, Flynn as a Frenchman (!!!) in <strong>Uncertain Glory<\/strong> (1944), and the thrilling action classic <strong>Objective, Burma<\/strong>! (1945).<\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">KQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DVD reviews of Dive Bomber (1941), and the first trio of titles from Warner Home Video&#8217;s TCM Spotlight Errol Flynn Adventure box: Desperate Journey (1942), Edge of Darkness (1943), and Northern Pursuit (1943)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-8W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}