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All Hail Alan Hale

02 Aug

Alan Hale earned a very distinguished place in film history as Errol’s great cinematic “sidekick”, most notably fighting along side his real-life buddy Flynn in swashbucklers, westerns, and other action movies. That known, in what film or films, if any, was Alan an adversary of Errol??*

Prod DB © Warner Bros / DR LES AVENTURES DE ROBIN DES BOIS (THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD) de Michael Curtiz et William Keighley 1938 USA avec Alan Hale classique du film d'aventure, heros, petit jean code R

*Excepting his initial opposition against Errol as Little John, of course.

— Tim

 
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9 years ago

“Essex” and “Prince”

9 years ago

Years ago I attended a screening of “Adventures of Don Juan” with Vincent Sherman also in attendance. I met the actress who had the line “Is it true that you swam the Bosphorus
to visit the caliph’s daughter?” She said Flynn was quiet and “a real gentleman” but was still angry with Alan Hale,(though she was laughing at the memory) saying that right before every take he would whisper her line inverted to try and trip her up, something like “Is it true that you fwam the Cosphorus to swim the Baliph’s daughter?”[img]http://classiccinemaquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Errol-Flynn-center-in-Adventures-of-Don-Juan-1948.jpg[/img]

9 years ago

[img]http://www.theerrolflynnblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Annex-Flynn-Errol-Desperate-Journey_03-800w.jpg[/img]
Slightly OT, as Hale and Flynn are on the same side in it, but I just watched DESPERATE JOURNEY (it was Raymond Massey day on TCM). I’d never seen it before, but you could just tell they got along so well.

9 years ago

As I understand, there is no biography on Little Big John, but are there any anecdotes out there somewhere, from
Hale hailing Errol? Maybe told by Alan Hale Jr. ?