Hey, fellow members--take your time and use your imagination. You could be the proud winner of a $25 wrist watch. Good luck!

http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/blog/Photos/RobertsThenandNowGallery/_archives/2010/8/25/4613884.html   more »

The article titled More Sad News for Flynn Fans was removed at the request of its Author, Xaviant.

I emailed Xaviant who tells me he was in the process of deleting his comments about Pat when he discovered the blog was down due to bandwidth problems. This is usually caused by the file size of pictures uploaded to the blog. It may be time to remind people that digital cameras produce large file sizes and to resize them to something smaller before uploading to the blog. In any case, Xaviant was speaking in the heat of the moment, and once he realized his remarks were a bit over the line he intended to delete them himself. We have comment guidelines to refer to, btw. His comments were over the top but who hasn't felt a rush of frustration like this? With all of the work he has done on his screenplay it is natural to have intense feelings about your project. However, there are folks here who know that many good projects have met roadblock after roadblock on the way to success. The difference between success or failure is often a matter of dogged determination and perseverance...

I have left the comments that followed this article in place to show blog readers what happened and what we are all about when we go off the rails a bit. Xaviant is a valued Author and  this really is a small blip on the radar screen, as far as I am concerned.

So we move on from here with smiles on our faces, and the wind in our hearts!

David
Admin/The Errol Flynn Blog

I am pleased to announce another New Author to The Errol Flynn Blog, Darren Bennett! Darren, we look forward to your comments and posts! Welcome aboard!

        

We're happy to announce New Author Diana Meredith-Brown has joined us at The Errol Flynn Blog! Diana, we look forward to your posts and are very pleased to have you join us!

                                                             

Hello everyone,

at last, my internet problems are solved, and here I am again. I missed you all a lot!

I spent part of my holidays in France and wrote an article about it. It's not very sensational, but I thought it would be nice to give others some hints when they want to travel, too. David kindly opened a new folder, "Blog author's travels", you can find it there. Hopefully, all of you who have done similar travels might contribute and write about their experiences. For example, if ever I go to the USA, what's the best way to get to this or that place related to Errol?

Also, something else "happened" during my holidays. I spoke to Waltraut Haas on the phone. Remember, Errol's co-star in "William Tell`? Five interesting minutes. If you want to know more, just drop me a line. I also got her autograph on a picture I drew of her and Errol, she kindly signed it and I attach it.

It's certainly great to be back!

Inga

Hi David;
I am back in town for a while I am gallivanting as it is summer and we have a wonderful one.  I see I have to catch up a lot but first things first. 
Your link to Jack's Radio Show with Rory Flynn is not working so here is a replacement.
http://www.latalkradio.com...
All the best to you,
Tina

Oh my, now I can't shut up.  But I've had a question bugging me for a while that one of my fellow Flynnians might be able to answer.  On TCM recently, Ben Mankiewicz related that William Wyler had approached EF to play Monty Clift's role in the Heiress.  I hadn't heard this before and was curious about the reference.  Does anybody know the source? 

As promised, here's the link for Kehr on EF's westerns. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/movies/homevideo/26dvds.html.  Great photo of Alexis, EF and the fine Warner character player John Litel. 

Strange that Warner Home Video still hasn't released Silver River to the domestic market.  I picked up my copy...in France! It's well worth seeing.  EF and Sheridan play off each other well, and the film has a great score by Max Steiner.   

Best, Sean 

Greetings, fellow Flynnians!  What a privilege to be a part of David's great site.  For my maiden post, I'm attaching Dave Kehr's recent review of the Errol Flynn Adventures boxed set in the New York Times.  In my opinion, Kehr is one of the best writers on classic film today, and this review more than supports my point.  As long as I have been watching Our Man Flynn, I had never considered Raoul Walsh's role in bending the heroic Flynn persona, making it more quietly human and believable during the war, especially after the rape acquittal. 

Kehr also wrote an excellent review of the Errol Flynn western set that came out a couple of years back.  I'll try and find that link for posting. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/movies/homevideo/08kehr.html?_r=1&ref=dave_kehr

Best to all, Sean. 

Lou Alexander saw these stories on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it:


** Errol Flynn's Cuban adventures **
Newspaper articles written by film star Errol Flynn documenting his last years in Cuba with Fidel Castro and his Communist rebels are rediscovered.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8298582.stm

Luke Flynn News:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/4339918.stm

I am pleased to announce our New Author Sean Warren to The Errol Flynn Blog! Sean, we look forward to your posts and comments...

                                   

..interviewing RORY FLYNN the daughter of the legendary actor Errol
Flynn. Listen to some wonderful stories from Rory about her Parents
and living up at Mulholland...

http://www.latalkradio.com/images/Marino-081310.mp3

As a freshman in college I saw The Adventures of Robin Hood for the first time, and zing went my heartstrings...   more »

Please be advised that a new book "Hollywood Babylon - It's Back" by Darwin Porter and Danforth Price has extensive new and original material on Errol Flynn.   This book has over 20 references to Errol Flynn including a chapter on the short, happy life of Sean Flynn and his tragic fate in Cambodia.

This book and even another by this pair of authors follows in the footsteps of Kenneth Anger who wrote those two landmark "Hollywood Babylon" books in the 1970's.

Some of this material on Flynn is true and some of it is probably false or greatly exagerated but I don't know where exactly.  The book is currently available from Amazon.com, where you can browse the Flynn passages.

Dark side or not this book does appear to be a fun read.

And by the way whatever happened to those remains discovered in Cambodia that were thought to be what's left of Sean Flynn?  Have they finished DNA testing?  

I suspect those remains where not in the end Sean Flynn.

Best wishes

Ralph Schiller

Books about Errol for sale   more »

Mulholland Drive Boys and Fellow Flynn fans:

  Today Sunday they are showing a one time screening at the Billy Widler Theater at UCLA.   This is a late notice but you will see on the big screen TOO MUCH TOO SOON 

http://www.tft.ucla.edu/calendar/screening/

Screening - Rarities from the Warner Archive Collection - "Too Much Too Soon"| Errol Flynn as John Barrymore, Dorothy Malone as daughter Diana 7:00 PM at The Billy Wilder Theater (10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards) Los Angeles, CA 90024 310.206.8013 )

The new Warner Box set of Errol's WWII films have hit the market.  This makes the 4th boxed sets of Flynn films that Warner's released.  We must buy the set so they will make another set of his comedies.

I hope to see some of you there that live in LA.

The tickets are 10.00 its a double feature and you can't buy them online.  So I don't know if it is sold out.

Jack Marino

Dale Westin of The Errol Flynn Marina in JA announces the Errol Flynn Benefit Ball for 2010!Pat Wymore Flynn of Portland is patron of the event which provides significant funds to a worthy Portland Parish charity...

                                                      
                                                       Pat Wymore Flynn

The August 2010 issue of Dale Westin's Docklines the official Newsletter of The Errol Flynn Marinia in JA is available now!

...the August Rockitt Magazine is online! www.therockittmagazine.com.au  Don't miss it!

I am pleased to announce our Newest Author Jan R. van der Vliet to The Errol Flynn Blog! Jan, we look forward to you thoughts and comments! Welcome aboard...

                                  

I just received the movie DVD "Abdul The Damned" and it really looks like very much so that Errol was an "Extra" in this movie made in 1934/35.  I would say that I definitely recognized Errol three times as an Extra. Sadly the credits do not list the movie production company where one could inquire to the absolute fact.
 
It is a good movie and I liked it very much, but it had two more surprised in addition to Errol..
Patric Knowles is in the movie and not on the bottom of the credits - he is in the middle. He plays OMAR, Hilmi Pasha's Attache and he has one speaking line "But he can abdicate" very close at the end of the movie.
I wonder if Errol and Patric knew each other already in England??? 
The other surprise - the heroin played by Adrienne Ames, a very beautiful actress, was Bruce Cabot's wife from 1933 to 1937 and it says that it was a stormy marriage.
What a small world the acting community actually is or was it just in those days?
That's all for today!