Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4911 in VHS
• Released on: 1994-12-07
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English, German
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Customer Reviews

There's just soooo many Westerns out there..........
As I continue my intro, there are tons of westerns out there, probably more than any other genre, considering all of the 'B' westerns out there.

To get on with my review, as I was hinting it's really hard to get a decent plot, one like say Rio Bravo or The Searchers. But anyway, it still is a pretty good movie. San Antonio is about a man who loses his fortune to some bad guys (I can't think of anything else to call them, either that or say crooked cattle punchers?) and goes to get his revenge. Flynn is once again his dashing self and Alexis Smith offers a good character. I guess "good character" isn't exactly the best way to describe it. She plays a very feisty actress/singer who ends up working for Flynn's enemies but falls in love with him.

The color in this film was great and it was qutie a high grade movie. The song sung in the film "Some Sunday Morning" won the Oscar for best song. It's a pretty good film on it's own, but when put up against other westerns and Flynn's previous work (Captian Blood, Robin Hood, etc.) it just doesn't have the same magic.

A charming, lighthearted mid-'40s oater
Errol Flynn was never more debonaire than in this briskly paced, totally enjoyable, two-fisted Western romance. Flynn plays Clay Hardin, a rancher who's been chased out of town by a syndicate of corrupt rustlers, but is back in town with the proof that will vindicate him... and with a hankering to meet actress Alexis Smith. She's a high-tone New York gal who finds herself charmed by the dapper, self-assured machismo of Flynn's good-natured rustic roughneck. You'll be charmed, too: it's hard to imagine anyone else being so suave and polite when they're whomping on the bad guys. Filmed in brightly saturated Technicolor, with the ruins of the Alamo eerily lit by the Texas moon. This film is a goodie! [Cast note: anyone who was charmed by S. K. Sakall's famous comedic cameo as a German emigre in "Casablanca" ("What watch mama?") will get a kick out of his extensive supporting role in this film... More cutesy ethnic schtick than you can shake a schntizel at!]

In this corner, Flynn; in that corner, Smith!
I don't generally care much for Westerns, but "San Antonio" is a highly enjoyable, often laugh-out-loud example of the genre. Errol Flynn and Alexis Smith engage in a lot of snappy repartee, Smith belts out the classic "Some Sunday Morning", and S.Z. Sakall, a staple of 1940's musicals and comedies, shines here.