THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON
(Warner Bros.)
|F I felt like breaking a rule as soon as I had made it, the Little Boy could safely be shown standing up to applaud this film with wild en-
thusiasm while the Little Man maintained the mildly interested attitude which you see here. For They Died With Their Boots On is good, rousing kidstuff which might have come straight out of Chums, (Is there a modern equivalent of that excellent magazine?) TDWTBO is all about that General Custer who is known to history for the fact that he made a Last Stand, with his boots on, in the face of a horde of howling redskins. But two and a-quarter hours before that he went to West Point riding on a mule, and then filled in the intervening time leading cavalry charges with his sword outstretched against Confederates in the Civil War, and subsequently against Injuns, getting himself promoted by a clerical error from lieutenant to brigadier-general at one jump, eating onions, drinking whisky, wooing winsome Olivia de Havilland, and becoming involved with landsharks. This epic of devotion to dooty, which is notable for lack of devotion to fact, enables Errol Flynn to wear natty uniforms with an air of complete self-satisfaction, but regretfully one comes to the conclusion that, with or without his boots, he is no actor.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 19
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227THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 321, 17 August 1945, Page 19
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