Movies I Watched in April

Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk (1940)

A few more rewatches than normal this month. I have a question mark beside Desperate Journey because I don't know if it's a rewatch or not. I have misplaced my 2013 & 2014 movie viewing list and so am unable to check and see if I watched it back then. A lot of Flynn's movies have the same cast (same with Bogart WWII films) and, when you've watched a bunch of a certain actor's filmography in a short span of time, they can become muddled. 

* indicates a rewatch

1. *The Sea Hawk (1940) - Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Alan Hale, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Una O'Connor, Gilbert Roland
2. ?Desperate Journey (1942) - Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale 
3. They All Kissed the Bride (1942) - Joan Crawford & Melvyn Douglas, Allen Jenkins, Billie Burke, Roland Young
4. Millions Like Us (1943) - Patricia Roc
5. *So Long at the Fair (1950) - Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Honor Blackman
6. Wagon Master (1950) - Ward Bond, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joann Dru, Jane Darwell, James Arness
7. Kill the Umpire (1950) - William Bendix, William Frawley
8. The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) - Evelyn Keyes
9. *Young Bess (1953) - Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton
10. *Dangerous Crossing (1953) - Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie
11. About Mrs. Leslie (1954) - Shirley Booth & Robert Ryan
12. *The Detective (1954) - Alec Guiness, Peter Finch
13. Boy on a Dolphin (1957) - Alan Ladd & Sophia Loren, Clifton Webb
14. Gideon's Day/Gideon of Scotland Yard (1959) - Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee
15. *Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) - Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Naomi Rapace
16. *The Boys in the Boat (2023) - Callum Turner, Joel Egerton
17. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) - Henry Cavill, Alex Pettifer, Henry Golding, Cary Elwes (in theaters)

STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces (2024) - Apple TV+

Manhunt (2024-mini series) - Tobias Menzies, Anthony Boyle

Least Favorite Film: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Henry Cavill in it. And it had Guy Ritchie's signature humor, shooting style, and score, buuuut... it was missing the magic chemistry that's in his Sherlock Holmes films and of course UNCLE.  I knew it wouldn't be as good as those films but I was still hoping. My brother said it felt like they were trying to push some of the other actors into being the next big *star,* especially the lady who seemed to have the most screen time and lines. I hope I'll like it better on a second viewing now that I will go into it with lower expectations. My friend (who loved UNCLE but wasn't obsessed with it like me and has only seen it the one time) loved the movie though. 

Favorite Movie: Melvyn Douglas was hilarious in They All Kissed the Bride. I kept imagining how it would have been though with Carole Lombard (she died before filming and Crawford took her place, famously donating her salary to the war effort). I watched it on tubi - blurry but watchable (unlike the one on YouTube).

Favorite Line: "Aw, come on, everybody likes hot dogs. Even the Queen of England!" 

 ~ Melvyn Douglas in They All Kissed the Bride, referring to the time King George VI 

and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) visited FDR at Hyde Park and ate hot dogs.

"Boy on a Dolphin" - Julie London