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Rating:  - It's Not Just The Glory That's Uncertain
Set in World War II, Errol Flynn stars as a French thief saved from the guillotine by a British air raid. Captured later by famed police inspector Paul Lukas, they end up in a small French town where 100 civilians have been captured by the Nazis to be used as hostages until a bridge saboteur turns himself in. Flynn, facing imminent death for his crimes, decides to be a hero and confess to sabotaging the bridge, thus freeing the 100 captured men. But confessing to a crime he didn't commit proves ... Read More
Rating:  - a simple example of existential angst
i saw this movie when i was eight years old, back in the 70's. even at that age, it became clear to me what war and sacrifice meant. although this story is very simple, that of a convicted- criminal-turned-escapee-turned-hero, it stuck with me until the time i became a philosophy major at university. this movie became for me one of the best examples of what existential angst is about. errol flynn's decision at the end may have been expected (as movies during that time were supposed to be resolved), ... Read More
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