dual personalities

Last night the boys and I searched Netflix “watch it now” for a Yul Brynner movie to watch in honor of his birthday. Since we’d recently watched the movies we own (Anastasia, the King and I, Kings of the Sun) and since “The Magnificent Seven” was not available, we settled for “Taras Bulba” with Yul in the titular role of course. Now I had seen the movie before, but not since I was very young and the only thing I remembered about it the scene where they jump the horses over the gorge. That should have warned me.

Yes, it’s very nice.

Yul was hardly in the movie; it was a Tony Curtis vehicle and quite frankly, terrible! Basically, the movie consisted of scenes of horses galloping around Argentina where it was filmed (nice scenery), Cossacks thumping each other, laughing heartily, drinking and dancing even on the battlefield, and Tony Curtis looking lovelorn. Next time you’re in the mood for a Yul Brynner movie, pick something else — anything else! To think we wasted our lives on this.