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Title: Bizarre Film in Flynn's Later Career
Review: ISTANBUL is a bizarre piece of work, starring a clearly overweight and raddled Errol Flynn as a romantic hero caught up in a web of intrigue in 1950s Istanbul. He sleepwalks through the film, a pale shadow of his former self. The locations are of interest to anyone either unacquainted with the city of Istanbul, or to those who would like to know what it looked like before the developers changed its vista forever. John Bentley, a stalwart British B-Movie actor of the mid-50s, looks uncomfortable playing a Turkish police inspector, as he should be. For aficionadoes only.
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