tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378399905941707667.post580144508708222042..comments2022-03-30T12:32:49.097-07:00Comments on Cin-Eater: Dive Bomber (1941)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07715057178983752370noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378399905941707667.post-41793211601756046112011-03-10T11:39:37.817-08:002011-03-10T11:39:37.817-08:00I found that this movie was an interesting (if ove...I found that this movie was an interesting (if overlong) look at the technical side of flight just before Pearl Harbor, building most of its tension in the sequences when the high pressure suits and experiments were being conducted and the vulnerability of the individual flyers rather than derring-do. I agree with you about the superficiality of the perfunctory Alexis Smith character, whose presence was merely window dressing. Like films such as <b>Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet</b> and <b>The Story of Louis Pasteur</b>, Warner Bros. made a conscious decision to glamorize science to a degree only surpassed by the highly romantic <b>Madame Curie</b> at MGM a few years later. The rather touching if naive belief in progress through science and the pall that the looming war cast over the film gives it a kind of somber subtext too. <br /><br />While I like anything with the Curtiz and Flynn names attached, this proved to be the last collaboration between them. A fist fight on the set made Warner's see the wisdom of keeping the two apart. Some people prefer Flynn's films made with Raoul Walsh--but I think that Errol's best work came under the direction of his bête noire, Mr. Curtiz. <br /><br />If you like the more muted performance of Errol Flynn in this movie, you might want to see <b>Green Light</b> (1937), which is being broadcast on TCM on March 14th at 6 AM ET. He plays a doctor whose sense of control over his own life is challenged after the death of a patient. While there is an unsatisfactory resolution of the issues raised by this story, Flynn's performance is intriguing and thoughtful under the direction of Frank Borzage.Moira Finniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12626493736940699514noreply@blogger.com