TCM Schedule Saturday, August 5 - Summer Under the Stars: Errol Flynn

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 AT A GLANCE
SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - JACKIE COOPER
Treasure Island (1934)
Devil Is a Sissy, The (1936)
Divorce in the Family (1932)
Dinky (1935)
- TCM DAYTIME
SUMMER UNDER THE STARS - - ERROL FLYNN
Montana (1950)
Sisters, The (1938)
Edge of Darkness (1943)
Kim (1951)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
San Antonio (1945)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
- TCM PRIMETIME
Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The (1939)
Sea Hawk, The (1940)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938)
Mara Maru (1952)
Rocky Mountain (1950)

11:30 PM Treasure Island (1934)

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Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a young boy out to foil pirates and find a buried treasure.
Dir: Victor Fleming Cast: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Trivia: Jackie Cooper did not like his performance, writing in his autobiography that he felt an older English boy should have played Jim Hawkins.

Trivia: MGM boss Louis B. Mayer insisted on a happy ending, so there had to be a re-shoot. Wallace Beery so resented this that he sabotaged the extra work by blowing his lines, staying in his dressing room for hours or taking long breaks. As a result, what was scheduled as a one day shoot took four days.


1:30 AM The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
A British boy in New York tries to join a tenement gang.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Cast: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney
Runtime: 92 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:15 AM Divorce in the Family (1932)
A young boy gets caught in an emotional tug of war between his divorcing parents.
Dir: Charles F. Riesner Cast: Jackie Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Lewis Stone
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: N


4:45 AM Dinky (1935)
A military school cadet's mother is framed and sent to prison.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast: Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor
Runtime: 65 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC: Y


6:00 AM Montana (1950)
An Australian gets caught in the battle between ranchers and sheep men.
Dir: Ray Enright Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S. Z. "cuddles" Sakall
Runtime: 76 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Gary Cooper and Ronald Reagan were originally announced for the lead role before Errol Flynn was cast.

7:30 AM The Sisters (1938)



Three western girls make unhappy marriages at the turn of the century.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita Louise
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Originally the film credits were to read "Errol Flynn in The Sisters," but Bette Davis demanded equal billing alongside Errol Flynn. She also pointed out that the original credits had an unwelcome sexual connotation.

9:15 AM Edge of Darkness (1943)

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Resistance fighters battle the Nazis in occupied Norway.
Dir: Lewis Milestone Cast: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston
Runtime: 119 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: According to the book "The Films of World War II" by Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and John Griggs, the production was beset by many problems. The book states, "Ann Sheridan parted from husband George Brent; Errol Flynn was indicted for rape; location shooting in a small California town was delayed several weeks because of fog, during which Ruth Gordon and Judith Anderson were besieged with telegrams from Katharine Cornell demanding their return to New York for her stage production of 'The Three Sisters'. Miss Gordon was restrained from leaving, but not before letting it be known that she hated Hollywood and the picture. Fortunately for Warners, the fog lifted, Flynn was acquitted, and the film was completed."

11:30 AM Kim (1951)

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Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of an orphaned boy who helps the British Army against Indian rebels.
Dir: Victor Saville Cast: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: Errol Flynn was initially excited about going to India, and turned down the studio's offer of the lead in King Solomon's Mines (1950) (which ultimately went to Stewart Granger). However, all of Flynn's scenes in this film were shot in the studio and matched in the editing room with long-shot second-unit footage of his double.

1:30 PM Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

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The legendary lover saves his queen from treason.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas
Runtime: 110 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar wins:
COSTUME DESIGN (Color) -- Leah Rhodes, Travilla, Marjorie Best
Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Edward Carrere; Set Decoration: Lyle Reifsnider

Trivia: Errol Flynn did not wear a wig and let his naturally curly hair grow for the role. The producers were worried about it becoming unruly during the climactic fight scenes, so it was decided that he wear a bandanna.

3:30 PM San Antonio (1945)

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A reformed rustler tracks down a band of cattle thieves and tries to reform a crooked dance-hall girl.
Dir: David Butler Cast: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, S. Z. "cuddles" Sakall
Runtime: 111 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Color) -- Art Direction: Ted Smith; Interior Decoration: Jack McConaghy
MUSIC (Song) -- "Some Sunday Morning," Music by Ray Heindorf and M. K. Jerome; Lyrics by Ted Koehler

Trivia: Bozic in the film twice refers to riderless horses as "empty horses". This is likely to be a reference to director Michael Curtiz, with whom Errol Flynn had worked on The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) (and whom Flynn detested). When wanting to see stray horses wandering through the battle, Curtiz directed the wranglers to "bring on the empty horses." After David Niven and Flynn cracked up laughing, Curtiz responded with, 'You people, you think I know fuck nothing; I tell you: I know fuck all". Niven later made this "Curtizism" immortal by titling his autobiography "Bring On the Empty Horses".


5:30 PM They Died with Their Boots On (1941)

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Romanticized biography of General George Armstrong Custer and his last stand.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Arthur Kennedy
Runtime: 138 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

Trivia: To fill the background with "Indians", hundreds of Filipino extras were filmed while the 16 Sioux were used for the close-ups.


8:00 PM The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

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Elizabeth I's love for the Earl of Essex threatens to destroy her kingdom.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland
Runtime: 106 mins Genre: Romance Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION -- Anton Grot
CINEMATOGRAPHY (Color) -- Sol Polito, W. Howard Greene
MUSIC (Scoring) -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Byron Haskin, Nathan Levinson

Trivia: Bette Davis had originally wanted Laurence Olivier for the role of Lord Essex, claiming that Errol Flynn could not speak blank verse well. She remained extremely upset about this through the entire filming, and Flynn and Davis never worked again together in a film. According to Olivia de Havilland, she and Davis screened the film again a short while before Davis suffered four strokes in 1983. At film's end, Davis turned to de Havilland and declared that she had been wrong about Flynn, and that he had given a fine performance as Essex.


10:00 PM The Sea Hawk (1940)

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A British buccaneer holds the Spanish fleet at bay with the covert approval of Elizabeth I.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Runtime: 127 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar nominations:
ART DIRECTION (Black-and-White) -- Anton Grot
MUSIC (Scoring) -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
SOUND RECORDING -- Warner Bros. Studio Sound Department, Nathan Levinson, Sound Director
SPECIAL EFFECTS -- Photographic Effects by Byron Haskin; Sound Effects by Nathan Levinson

Trivia: Henry Daniell couldn't fence. The climactic duel had to be filmed using a double and skillful inter-cutting.

12:15 AM The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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The bandit king of Sherwood Forest leads his Merry Men in a battle against the corrupt Prince John.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-G CC: Y

Oscar wins:
ART DIRECTION -- Carl J. Weyl
FILM EDITING -- Ralph Dawson
MUSIC (Original Score) -- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Oscar nominations:
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION -- Warner Bros.-First National

Trivia: During one fight sequence, Errol Flynn was jabbed by an actor who was using an unprotected sword--he asked him why he didn't have a guard on the point. The other player apologized and explained that director Michael Curtiz had instructed him to remove the safety feature in order to make the action "more exciting". Flynn reportedly climbed up a gantry where Curtiz was standing next to the camera, took him by the throat and asked him if he found that "exciting enough".

2:15 AM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:15 AM Rocky Mountain (1950)
A Confederate troop makes a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Errol Flynn, Patrice Wymore, Scott Forbes
Runtime: 83 mins Genre: War Rating: TV-PG CC: Y