Something for the men and the ladies….
I live in the U.S. of A dammit… I don’t have to pick just one movie. Tomorrow is a banner lineup again… I’m going with two though…
First up:
Wuthering Heights (1939)
A married noblewoman fights her lifelong attraction to a charismatic gypsy. Cast: Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Dir: William Wyler. BW-104 mins, TV-PG, CC. 8:00 PM EST. TCM
And then:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I. Cast: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Flora Robson. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-128 mins, TV-G, CC. 11:30 PM EST. TCM
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the Sea Hawk! I love Errol Flynn adventure movies like this one.
and, yes, the Korngold score is tremendous.
http://www.korngold-society.org/ana1.html
I concur with these picks. The only other flick that I want to mention is, Stop! Look! And Laugh! (1960). This used to be shown for several years in MA after the Thanksgiving parade.
All right! The “Sea Hawk”! Swashbuckling fun for all. I saw a great biography about Flynn on TCM a few years back. Someone in it commented that Flynn could wear any period costume and look good. So true! Flynn could don chaps and pull off playing a cowboy or he could put on 16th garb and seem like a real Elizabethan man. There are few others who could put on the Robin Hood tights and look so natural. Cary Grant was a man that looked great in clothes but I dare say he would not have been credible as a cowboy or buccaneer.
The wonderful Claude Rains is in this movie too. I don’t know if Rains has ever been TCM’s star of the month but he certainly deserves to be.
Good point about the score, JJ. Korngold! Yeah!