Console best movie i've ever seen.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . a couple of the previous year's most mendacious snooze-fests, STAGECOACH and GONE WITH THE WIND. If you can picture Humphrey Bogart playing the Ringo Kid with a cheesy Mexican accent while Scarlett O'Hara is Can-Can Dancing as a Saloon Hooker, you pretty much can visualize Warner's revisionist flick, VIRGINIA CITY. Throw in Randolph Scott anticipating Henry Fonda's Last Stand in FORT APACHE, and your VIRGINIA CITY synopsis is fairly complete. So what, may you ask, are Warner's messages here? Just as Warner warned us this month about corrupt job-killing corporate automatons, calling these Deplorable Creatures "Soul-less Replicants" in BLADE RUNNER 2049, Warner warns us against America's Racist Southern Confederate Traitor Faction with VIRGINIA CITY. These Fascist Neanderthals are no more human than Replicants, Warner suggests, as they allow their young to die like dogs in the desert if it serves their financial purpose. When "Cobby Gill, age 11" kicks the bucket in great pain after gross neglect from his adult guardians 1:37:31 into VIRGINIA CITY, it brings to mind the married Repug Party U.S. Congressman who stated this week that abortions should be illegal for ALL American women EXCEPT his own pregnant mistress! That's why Warner has Errol Flynn bury all of the Confederates' ill-gotten wealth under a man-made landslide in order to preserve it for Today's True Blue Loyal Patriotic Normal Average 99 Per Center Silent Majority Progressive Union Label Americans. Warner's scene between Fifth Columnist Quisling Julia Hayne and Abe Lincoln lays down the Law: ALL of the Heartless Racists such as Julia MUST be stripped of their American Citizenship for High Treason against our Constitution, and deported like any other Alien Traitor to Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf B, while their Gold and Other Assets are seized under the U.S. Civil Forfeiture Statutes and divvied up for Reparations and to pay off the National Debt that they've run up at the expense of the so-called Blue Donor States!

Damaris Steele I never fail to be moved by this Civil War western from 1940, ever since the first time I watched it on late night television with my father when I was in the seventh grade. Errol Flynn (representing the Union) around this time was on top form, and Randolph Scott, a native Virginian, is ideally suited for the role of Southern gentleman soldier.Miriam Hopkins, while a bit older than the usual leading lady in films of this period, is still very beautiful and is perfect as a Southern aristocrat fallen on hard times because of a war which is obviously being lost. Humphrey Bogart may at first seem a bit ridiculous as a Mexican bandit, but he could play the bad guy when he had to and you have to remember that this film was before Casablanca and his other great classics.The film does have some very corny lines, which it is hard to believe were not laughable even at the time it was made. However the score by Max Steiner is absolutely wonderful and helps to convey the sadness and desperation of both sides in early 1865. The courtroom scene towards the end with Errol Flynn, while probably not rooted in reality, is to me one of the actor's finer moments. And the portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, shown in shadow towards the end of the film, has always been my vision of Lincoln.

utgard14 After escaping from a Confederate prison, Union officer Errol Flynn is sent to Virginia City, Nevada, on a mission to prevent a gold shipment from making its way to the Rebels. But in charge of the gold shipment is Confederate officer Randolph Scott, the same man who was in charge of the prison Flynn escaped from. Complicating matters further is Scott's sister and Rebel spy Miriam Hopkins. She meets Flynn and, well, you know. Also muddying the waters is Mexican bandit Humphrey Bogart (!!!), who Scott enlists to help get the gold past Flynn without ever thinking what would happen when you wave a shipment of gold in front of an outlaw.Decent western with a Civil War backdrop directed by Michael Curtiz. It has a little bit of everything but not enough of anything of merit. It's a long movie for its time; an early example of Hollywood's wrong-headed "longer is better" approach to filmmaking that we still deal with today (it's even worse today). Flynn goes through the motions with his usual roguish charm. Miriam Hopkins has poor chemistry with him and honestly drags the movie down. But I'm not a fan of hers in general. Scott does fine in a sympathetic quasi-villain role. One of the more interesting things about the movie is its reluctance to paint either the North or South in a completely bad light, just some 75 years removed from the Civil War. The funniest part of the movie, and probably what gets it any attention today, is the miscasting of Humphrey Bogart as a Mexican, complete with a laughable accent that comes & goes and a Cesar Romero mustache. Hilarious stuff. Curiously Bogart's character shares a name with real-life bandit John Murrell, who died two decades before this movie takes place and, to my knowledge, was as white as Cool Whip.It's not a bad movie by any means. No picture can be bad with this director and these stars, as well as a supporting cast that includes Alan Ladd, Frank McHugh, John Litel, Douglas Dumbrille, Charles Middleton, and Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams. There are some nice actions scenes and some good dramatic ones. The ending is also a pip. It's just a bit overlong and feels like it was made just to mimic the success of previous Curtiz/Flynn classic Dodge City. But it's definitely worth a look for fans of the stars or director.

J C This is one of my favorite movies of all time. The only regret that I have is that I had never saw it up until 2 years ago. The movie does not take sides and gives you a neutral, fly on the wall view of a story unfolding. Randolph Scott plays a Southern officer who is sent to Virginia City, NV to obtain gold so that the South can finance the Civil War. They need to do this simply because this late in the war and with the South losing, the Confederacy no longer has financial credit with foreign powers. Errol Flynn is a Northern officer sent to stop Scott from completing his mission. There is a back story concerning these two men which adds to the tension. I left out much of the details because I do not want to ruin it for anyone who checks it out. This movie proves that who is the "bad guy" depends on which side you are on as both the main characters and those associated with them are simply doing what they feel is right. Great action, great building of the characters and you wind up not sure who to root for. Two great main actors, great supporting cast and even Bogart is here, showing that westerns should have been added to his studio lineup more often, minus the whole half-Mexican bandito thing. This movie should be given a chance and is just as good today as it was in 1940.