Actors:Luis Alberni, Erville Alderson, Arthur Ayleswofth, Roy Barcroft, Trevor Bardette Genres:Westerns, Drama Sub-Genres:Westerns, Drama Studio:Platinum Disc Format:DVD - Black and White,Color DVD Release Date: 12/25/2001 Original Release Date: 01/01/1940 Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1940 Release Year: 2001 Run Time: 1hr 50min Screens: Black and White,Color Number of Discs: 1 SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Total Copies: 2 Members Wishing: 0 MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Languages:English See Also:
Extremely poor quality video and sound that makes this close to unwatchable. A young Ronald Reagan is in this if you are a fan.
Movie Reviews
Don't waste your money
Michael Widmaier | New York USA | 01/29/2004
(1 out of 5 stars)
"An excellent film, but a horrible DVD.
A wonderful movie is ruined by the pathetic quality of this disc. This is the absolute worst transfer to DVD I have ever seen. It looks as if it was taken from an incredibly well worn VHS copy."
Excellent
Michael Widmaier | 03/15/2003
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is an excellent film! I especially liked the fact that they portrayed John Brown as he really was in real life. You don't see that very often. Truly an exciting film - Errol Flynn performed wonderfully."
A four star movie,a 0 star for the bad transfer
John D. Page | usa | 04/17/2006
(1 out of 5 stars)
"this is one of errol flynn's lesser movies but it is still a great action packed western about john brown before and after his raid to try to start a slave revolt. as history it doesn't come even close to the truth,but it moves so fast and has some great battles so i'm willing to give it a break.
i can not say the same for this transfer! the picture gets so dark at times i had to turn the brightness up all the way just to see some scenes and the audio has a lot of drop outs and pops so that you can't hear it at times. wait til abetter copy comes out as this one is just no good"
Not flynn's best and the worst transfer i've ever seen
movie hound john | 02/14/2006
(1 out of 5 stars)
"i knew about the retelling of history in this film. it was still an ok western set before the civil war that looks at a very hollywood version of john brown and his raid to start a slave revoilt just before the civil war.i won't list all the things they got wrong but they are many. still i liked this one when i was little and bought this one to show my boys. well it looked so bad they asked me to put another movie in and i did. the movie i give 3 stars the transfer i give 1 only because you can't give zero"