- Warner Night at the Movies 1938: Vintage newsreel, musical shorts "The Prisoner of Swing" and "Romance Road," classic cartoon "What Price Porky?"
- Trailer
The Dawn Patrol (1938) On DVD
Actor : Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Hal Le Roy, Eddie Foy Jr., June Allyson
Director: Edmund Goulding
Genre: Action/Adventure
Year: 1938
Studio: Warner Home Video
Length: 103
Released: September 6, 2005
Rating: March 27, 2007
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
subtitles: English, Spanish
DESCRIPTION:
It's the later, Errol Flynn version of The Dawn Patrol that's won DVD release. The original is rarely shown because, despite direction by Howard Hawks, it suffers from the stiffness and some overly declamatory acting characteristic of the early talkie era. Perhaps more to the point, the remake's cast has greater marquee value: Flynn and David Niven as hotshots Courtney and Scott; Basil Rathbone as Major Brand, the tortured commander whom Flynn will be obliged to succeed; Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, and Barry Fitzgerald as staff officers and noncoms. Edmund Goulding's direction is proficient, if also impersonal.
So the remake has the edge as smooth entertainment, though not the original's raw power (or Griffith veteran Richard Barthelmess's tender, anguished performance as Courtney). And the best parts of the 1938 version are the original film: all the aerial footage--bombings, crashes, breathtaking low-level flying, and wobbly takeoffs in the glow of early morning--is Hawks's. Ideally, Warner Video should have issued both films, and in one box. --Richard T. Jameson
Product Description
Errol Flynn and David Niven star as roustabout French Corp fighter pilots who come face-to-face with the harsh realities of war. Basil Rathbone is outstanding as the Squadron Commander.
Special Features :
Actor : Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Hal Le Roy, Eddie Foy Jr., June Allyson
Director: Edmund Goulding
Genre: Action/Adventure
Year: 1938
Studio: Warner Home Video
Length: 103
Released: September 6, 2005
Rating: March 27, 2007
Format: DVD
Misc: NTSC, Black & White
Language: English
subtitles: English, Spanish
DESCRIPTION:
It's the later, Errol Flynn version of The Dawn Patrol that's won DVD release. The original is rarely shown because, despite direction by Howard Hawks, it suffers from the stiffness and some overly declamatory acting characteristic of the early talkie era. Perhaps more to the point, the remake's cast has greater marquee value: Flynn and David Niven as hotshots Courtney and Scott; Basil Rathbone as Major Brand, the tortured commander whom Flynn will be obliged to succeed; Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, and Barry Fitzgerald as staff officers and noncoms. Edmund Goulding's direction is proficient, if also impersonal.
So the remake has the edge as smooth entertainment, though not the original's raw power (or Griffith veteran Richard Barthelmess's tender, anguished performance as Courtney). And the best parts of the 1938 version are the original film: all the aerial footage--bombings, crashes, breathtaking low-level flying, and wobbly takeoffs in the glow of early morning--is Hawks's. Ideally, Warner Video should have issued both films, and in one box. --Richard T. Jameson
Product Description
Errol Flynn and David Niven star as roustabout French Corp fighter pilots who come face-to-face with the harsh realities of war. Basil Rathbone is outstanding as the Squadron Commander.
Special Features :
- Warner Night at the Movies 1938: Vintage newsreel, musical shorts "The Prisoner of Swing" and "Romance Road," classic cartoon "What Price Porky?"
- Trailer
Product Name | The Dawn Patrol (1938) On DVD |
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This item is returnable | No |