Errol Flynn died at the young age of 50 leaving behind him a legacy of great films and Warner Bros. has once again roused a group of five of them into another fantastic Signature Collection as Flynn plays the role of cowboy, war general, swashbuckler and the Earl of Essex.

Flynn is easily best known for his role in the wildly popular Robin Hood from 1938, but since Warners recently released a two-disc special edition of Robin Hood they couldn't include it in this set, so they have gathered a select group of five films and an 87 minute eye-opening documentary making this set well worth your while.

I was not at all familiar with Errol Flynn until this set arrived at my door, but now I cannot get enough of his ability to swoop and swoon not only the ladies on screen, but the entire viewing audience.

The Errol Flynn Collection contains Flynn's first big break here in America with Captain Blood, a film following Peter Blood, a 17th-century physician turned slave turned pirate. Blood also is the first time Flynn was seen on screen with Olivia de Havilland as the two no-names at the time turn this swashbuckler into one hell of a ride.

The sea-faring action doesn't stop there as the best film in this collection has to be The Sea Hawk, a film about Captain Geoffrey Thorpe and his brave crew who gather to commandeer a 40-gun Spanish galleon and sail the high seas in the name of England but not with her good graces. Fortunately for the Thorpe and his crew they are not strung up for their actions, instead they are sent on a mission that ends up in their capture and must find a way out to inform Queen Elizabeth of Spain's advancing armada.

Dodge City follows up The Sea Hawk as the second best film in the collection as Flynn is met once again with Olivia de Havilland in this guns blazing feature that is just as fun as any western I have ever seen. While you will soon find out on the included documentary that Flynn never felt he was right for a western he pulled off the part with flying colors, Technicolor for that matter, as this is also one of the two films in color in the collection; the other is The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

The awkward titled Private Lives is easily the worst of these five films as I am not a huge fan of Bette Davis and the film itself tends to just drag and the only big surprise is the ending, which is great, but this tale of love between Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex will probably be the only one that doesn't get repeated viewings in my player.

The final film in the collection may sound a little corny at first but this tale of General Custer on his way to being immortalized at the Battle of Little Big Horn is a good one. They Died With Their Boots On, while a really good war tale, is also probably the best film of the bunch between de Havilland and Flynn, primarily due to Olivia's performance throughout and the excellent scene in the end.

The documentary I mentioned before is the final disc in the set that journeys through the life of Flynn from a small film in Australia, his lavish adventures in New Guinea, the ups and downs of his film career and his equally rocky personal life. Narrated by Ian Holm this documentary is fabulous as it includes words from two of Flynn's wives, Olivia de Havilland, Burt Reynolds, Richard Dreyfus and many more. Flynn's story is an amazing one as it not only highlights his acting achievements, but also touches on his fall from grace thanks to phony rape charges, morphine and all the women of his life. Taking everything into consideration there is one thing that cannot be denied; Flynn lived life to the fullest.

As far as special features go, each film comes with a documentary on the movie as well as a "Warners Night at the Movies" feature, which is by far one of the coolest things they could include. Each film comes with an option to take yourself back to the year the movie was released as all the traditions of going to the movies in the 30s and 40s can be relived. "Warners Night at the Movies" includes a newsreel, a short film, a short cartoon and trailers before each movie, all to get you in the mood, the only thing missing is the Movie Butter Pop Secret and that is easy enough to get at your local grocers.

If you couldn't tell from all my rambling this is one of the greatest ways to relive one of the greatest actors of all time in some movies that could have been lost, but will now forever be intact on DVD. If movies are your thing, and you aren't afraid of black and white then don't wait to own this collection as it won't be something you will regret.