By the time he made this, his last swashbuckler for Warner Bros., Errol Flynn's hedonistic lifestyle had finally begun to catch up with him and he looked a good ten years older than his actual age of 44. The toll of all those boozy nights also meant that Flynn was no longer the agile hero of old - although he could still handle a sword with the best of them.
This is quite an entertaining old-fashioned swashbuckler filmed in lush colour by Jack Cardiff. It's based on a Robert Louis Stevenson novel full of twists and turns and, while some of these twists (and turns) seem occasionally improbable, they all add to the entertainment value. Highlight of the film for me was Jacques Berthier as the foppish pirate captain who looks as though he has strayed onto the set from a completely different film - although Roger Livesey as Flynn's Irish soldier-of-fortune sidekick runs him a close second.
This is quite an entertaining old-fashioned swashbuckler filmed in lush colour by Jack Cardiff. It's based on a Robert Louis Stevenson novel full of twists and turns and, while some of these twists (and turns) seem occasionally improbable, they all add to the entertainment value. Highlight of the film for me was Jacques Berthier as the foppish pirate captain who looks as though he has strayed onto the set from a completely different film - although Roger Livesey as Flynn's Irish soldier-of-fortune sidekick runs him a close second.