Features our late friend Professor Lincoln D Hurst, a film historian …
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— David DeWitt
Archive for September, 2019
Hurrah and Whoopie
19
Sep
As war is again being discussed in Washington, it may be wise to listen again to the lyrics of ‘Stand by Your Glasses’ from Dawn Patrol and ‘I-Think-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag’ from Woodstock (possibly inspired by Dawn Patrol)…
Hurrah for the Next Man That Dies… (from the chorus of’Stand by Your Glasses’)
Whoopie! We’re all gonna die…(from the chorus of ‘I-Think-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag’)
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“When I was the membership chairman of the old Great War Society, we asked our new enlistees what got them interested in the First World War. I was surprised at how many mentioned the 1938 film Dawn Patrol with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, and David Niven.”
“The “show stopper” scene in that movie is not any of the combat sequences, but in the mess when the pilots drink a musical toast to the next man who dies. The lyrics used in the movie are an adaptation of a 19th-century poem out of India titled ‘The Revel’ by Bartholomew Dowling.”
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Hoorah for the next man that dies…
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It’s been said that the show stopper performance by Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock was reminiscent of ‘Stand to Your Glasses’ in Dawn Patrol (but “Louder”)
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Whoopie! We’re all gonna die…
— Tim
Errol’s Little Clock Bellied Man!
18
Sep
His clock at Mulholland and at Pat’s ranch in Jamaica …
PORTLAND, JAMAICA – CIRCA 1980: Patrice Wymore Flynn is seen at her home, the Errol Flynn Estate, circa July 1980 in Portland Jamaica. (Photo by Bette Marshall/Getty Images)
— David DeWitt
In Search of Estrella
15
Sep
Los Hijos de Errol Flynn
“During the Spanish Civil War, Errol Flynn decided to travel to Spain as an adventure, in his memoirs he tells that he met Estrella, his love. This documentary is the search for Estrella and all the broken love stories with the end of the war.”
Los Hijos de Errol Flynn will travel to the United States for the Hispanic Culture Film Festival in Saint Augustine, Florida. The festival will be held from October 4 to 6.
— Tim
The Flynnspiration of Raul
14
Sep
Being that it’s Friday the 13th, here’s a post featuring the Addams Family’s Big-Screen, Flynn-inspired Gomez, Raul Julia.
“After witnessing Errol Flynn’s performance in The Adventures of Robin Hood, he decided to pursue an acting career.”
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“A quarter-century after his death, Julia is probably best remembered as Gomez Addams, from the zippy “Addams Family” film from 1991 and its even funnier sequel, “Addams Family Values.” As Gomez, Julia is a human exclamation point: swashbuckling like Errol Flynn…”
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Quipping, grinning, and Flynning like Flynn
Flynn could have been so great a Gomez
Kissing and Making Up/Out with Errol’s Ex-Sparring Partner’s (John Huston’s) Daughter, Angelica
— Tim
Doctor, Slave, Pirate
11
Sep
Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude
Lessons in Morality From Peter Blood, the Pirate
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— Tim
Sean on the Island of the Coconut Monk
10
Sep
Per’The World According to Roger Steffens’:
Where is the most interesting place you’ve visited?
“The Island of the Coconut Monk. I went there for the first time in January of 1969 with John Steinbeck IV and Sean Flynn, Errol Flynn’s son. It was basically a mile-long sand bar in the middle of the Mekong River inhabited by thousands of drop outs from the war, led by a 4 and a half-foot hunchback monk who hadn’t lain down in the previous 20 years. Anyone who came to his island without a weapon was welcomed, no questions asked. They had deserters from the North Vietnamese communist forces, the South Vietnamese army, and daoists. They prayed to Christ, Buddha, Mohammad, Lao Tze, Confucius, Sun Yat-sen, Victor Hugo and Winston Churchill. The North bank of the river was controlled by the Americans and the South bank by the communists, and they’d fire rockets and mortars over the island, but never touch the island. It’s the only place in Vietnam that I saw happy people. It was there that I met my first wife.”
Per “The Coconut Monk” by John Steinbeck IV:
“I was happy here. Perhaps happier than I had ever been in my life. The island became my refuge for the next five years.”
——————– Roger Steffens, John Steinbeck IV, Crystal Eastin and Sean Flynn
— Tim
