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Duel [VHS]

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I just finished watching Errol Flynn's THE DUEL for the first time--THE DUEL IS ERROL FLYNN'S BEST MOVIE!!! I don't usually like watching black and white tapes, but THE DUEL is a hell of a look back for anyone at a time when movies were made for one reason--to entertain!

THE DUEL has no endless list of credits, no wasted scenes or token characters, and no baloney as Errol Flynn plays a ruthless English lord who has murdered a man 10 years before and now wants to intimidate the man's daughter--who has been living in his home as his ward--into marrying him for one reason that he actually tells her:he has gambled away his fortune and wants her money! But Flynn knows that she wants to marry a young English soldier and has a contingency plan that he tells her, too:he is a master with pistols and will trick the young man into a duel!

Errol Flynn isn't as young and dashing in THE DUEL as he was in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD or CAPTAIN BLOOD, but even in his 50s he's still tall, rugged, and handsome enough to make a terrific villain, and there are plenty of subtle references to his well publicized private life that help to add to the momentum leading to the movie's exciting final scene. And all this in only 30 minutes!!!

IN LIKE FLYNN--THE DUEL IS ERROL FLYNN'S BEST MOVIE!!!

Chari Krishnan RESEARCHKING

First off, Flynn died at 50 years old...he was barely "in his 50s" and his last effort, Cuban Rebel Girls, was a disaster. I've never seen nor heard of Duel starring Errol Flynn. It must have been an episode in his TV series, The Errol Flynn Theatre. Here are his final films:

1954 Crossed Swords
1954 Let's Make Up
1955 King's Rhapsody
1955 The Warriors
1957 The Big Boodle
1957 Istanbul
1957 The Sun Also Rises
1957 Errol Flynn Theater (TV Series) Host
1958 The Roots Of Heaven
1958 Too Much, Too Soon John Barrymore
1959 Cuban Rebel Girls

We met his wife, Patrice Wymore, while she still living on their estate in Jamaica. She was in her gift shop at a hotel nearby their plantation, a few years ago. Flynn bought it when he was making Captain Blood.She inherited the entire plantation. She allowed us to take a tour of the estate and when our driver was taking us back, two people were walking to town. We gave them a ride. It was his grandchildren! They could have cared less about the significance of their grandfather on cinematic history, while my husband was stupefied with the experience. We told her of our gigantic collection. I believe she mentioned we probably have more than she does, what with posters, films,all books ever written about him, memorabilia, etc.

What an eventful, unexpected adventure with the "Adventures of Errol Flynn".

My favorite is "Gentlemen Jim" which goes with his own character. His taste for the wild side of life was, ultimately, his own undoing, even according to Olivia deHavilland.

Yes, it is one of the 26 episodes of the Errol Flynn theatre. Like Alfred Hitchcock presents, Flynn introduces a 30 mns episode. Sometimes, the guest star can even be Christopher Lee (Twice) or his wife Patricia Wymore.
But he is the leading role in this episode. And plays for once the bad guy. A very cold, mercyless arrogant Lord in the 18th century, very skilled for pistol duels. He is the tutor of a lovely girl who wants to get married and has a plan to rob her money.
A must see for any Flynn fan.
Not his best movie at all, but a real great unusual acting performance

Errol Flynn was born in 1909 and died in 1959 which means he was about 48 years old when he made this movie. He was not in his 50's as you so stated.