Flynn became a star in his first leading role as an unustly imprisoned doctor turned swashbuckling pirate in the lavish 1935 adaptation of Rafael Sabatini’s novel.
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Criterion Blu-ray: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood
Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood (Criterion, Blu-ray, DVD) At the dawn of the sound era, as German movie star Emil Jannings left Hollywood to return to Germany, the actor invited Austrian-born/American-raised director Josef von Sternberg (who directed Jannings in The Last Command, 1928) to Universum Film A.G. to direct him in that studio’s first […]