St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum
81 Lighthouse Avenue, Saint Augustine, FL 32080
Cinematic Swashbuckler Errol Flynn Celebration at St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum on Friday Apr 10, 2015 at 12:00AM
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CINEMATIC SWASHBUCKLER ERROL FLYNN CELEBRATION
The St. Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum presents an exciting tribute to legendary Cinematic Swashbuckler Errol Flynn — including a screening of two of the icon’s most popular films and a visit from his daughter, celebrated author and photographer
— tassie devil
Wish I could be there…I love St. Augustine and I love Errol Flynn. The fort would have made good set for one his movies :)
Amazing you say that, Paula! The famous fort in St. Augustine (Castillo de San Marcos) WAS very prominently featured in the 1951 film Distant Drums— Raoul Walsh’s “quasi-remake” of Errol’s Objective Burma!
Here’s some scenes of “Fort Infanta”, as it’s called in Distant Drums:
Castillo as Fort Infanta in Distant Drums 1951: youtu.be/SJLYWr3_oyw…
Here’s an aerial of “Castillo”, along with the city’s magnificent Colonoal Quarter, America’s oldest city, and the site of Sir Francis Drake’s legendary raid on the Spanish Main.
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Oh, how cool! I’ve never seen DISTANT DRUMS…I’ll have to check that out. OBJECTIVE: BURMA is a fave, Flynn is so very good in it.
Awesome find, Genene!