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What do you think of 'Dodge City' (1939)?

posted 17 years ago by J. Spurlin
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Errol Flynn cleans up the title city and romances Olivia de Havilland in this great-looking Technicolor western with a fine low-key villain in Bruce Cabot. First-rate support from Alan Hale, Jr., Henry Travers, Victor Jory and many others. Spectacular barroom brawl is the highlight.

I saw this film on TV when I was twelve and first became seriously interested in movies. It was great to see it again.

Do you like this film? Love it? Hate it?

... Justin

[–] ginmoses 17 years ago

love the film, love the chemistry bewteen olivia and errol.

[–] J. Spurlin 17 years ago

Those two click together on screen. It's no mystery why they were cast together in so many films.

... Justin

[–] lostinaction 16 years ago

I liked it. I was surprised that this movie was very entertaining. Maybe the best Western with Errol Flynn.

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[–] Piperson 13 years ago

Pure enjoyment. I want Errol to be my dad, be the sheriff of my town and when I grow up I want to marry someone just like him.

[–] Xcalat3 12 years ago

I like it, not great but a good western. I also saw it years ago when I was little.

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[–] oldblackandwhite 11 years ago

Dodge City has always been one of my favorite Westerns -- favorite movies -- since I first saw it on black and white TV back in the 1960's. But the spectacular and exotic San Antonio (1945) (see my review) is my favorite Flynn western.

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[–] kenny-164 10 years ago

Ive never seen San Antonio, so I can't compare. But this really is a great western that includes Flynn. Funny I kept comparing it to another sprawling outdoors epic of his, that being Gunga Din. Same in the sense of men on horseback, the great outdoors, coincidentally Olivia's sister Joan Fontaine. But of course a different country. Heh.

This one has all the classic elements of a western. I loved it. I would have given it a ten but for a couple of things. As otehs have noted that great chemistry between deHavilland and Flynn is a notch or two below their best. I was also expecting a bigger role for the great Anne Sheridan, one of my favorites from that era. And what's with the reactionary way in which the Confederate vets were portrayed as more honorable than the Union vets???

So I gave it a nine, but in truth the actual experience of watching it was great.

[–] rdbzhch-1 10 years ago

I believe that it is Alan Hale not Alan Hale, jr. who appears in this film.

rdb.

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[–] EleanorDashwood 10 years ago

Love the movie. I think I've seen it a dozen times.

[–] Errington_92 9 years ago

Unfortunately the majority of Dodge City's narrative was predictable. Although the acting was of good quality.

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