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— Tim
On Board Zaca – Overboard Movies
08
Nov
Misadventures pf Captain Fabian, The Man Who Cried, and Hello God
The film was originally known as The Bargain and was based on a script by Errol Flynn himself. Flynn entered into a multi-picture deal with William Marshall to produce the film, among others, in July 1949. It was to be produced independently with a distributor sought later. Micheline Presle was borrowed from 20th Century Fox to play the female lead. Gérard Philipe was to be in the cast but did not appear in the end. (Presle and Marshall later married.)
At one stage the film was also known as Bloodline and New Orleans Adventure. Filming started on July 15, 1950 in Paris under the title of The Bargain. Exteriors representing New Orleans were recreated in the city of Villefranche with studio scenes shot at the Victorine Studios in Nice and the Billancourt Studios in Paris.
Under Errol Flynn’s contract with Warner Bros, he was allowed to make one “outside” film a year until 1962, provided it had a major distributor. Flynn later claimed that during filming, William Marshall “secretly” committed the film to being released by Republic Pictures, one of the smaller studios. Both Warner Bros and MGM, who had films starring Flynn awaiting release, were unhappy with this. Flynn worried that Warner Bros would use this as an excuse to cancel their contract with him on the basis that Republic was not a major. On 18 December 1950 he filed suit in the Los Angeles Superior Court asking them to stop Republic from releasing the film and to stop Warner Bros from cancelling the contract until the court could determine that Republic was a “major” distributor.
The movie was meant to be the first of two films from Flynn and Marshall, the second which was to be The Man Who Cried, a psychological thriller about the perfect crime set over a four-hour period, but this wasn’t made due to a dispute between Marshall and Flynn over Hello God.
In January 1952, Flynn asked a court to formally end the partnership with Marshall.
— Tim
Amelia Oliphant
07
Nov
Here are a few discoveries about Miss Amelia Oliphant which appear in Errol MWWW.
Me and Bonnie Paraschos found a few interesting facts.
Olivia de Havilland played a role named Amelia in 1940 “my love came back”.
The River Queen was used in the movie Gone with the Wind (under a new name) and Oliphant means “olive branch” and is a Normand lastname.
We think Amelia is Olivia.
❤ open to discussion obviously
— Selene Hutchison-Zuffi
B for Baron?
06
Nov
New York Daily News, November 6, 1942
By Frederick C. Othman
Los Angeles, Nov. 5 (U.R).
Peggy Larue Satterle, 16-year-old night club charmer, testified today that film actor Errol Flynn stopped at a physician’s office “to get some vitamin B pills, or something,” before he took her aboard his yacht for the cruise on which he is accused of raping her twice. She and Flynn were having dinner at Chasen’s, she said, before boarding the Sirocco, Flynn’s yacht, for a weekend cruise to Catalina Island. She said Flynn telephoned his doctor while they were dining and that on the way to the yacht harbor he stopped at the doctor’s office. “He got some vitamin B pills, or something,” she said, to the high amusement of the courtroom crowd.
— Tim
Remember, Remember – The Fifth of November
04
Nov
The Fifth of November, 2020
A Timely Interruption
“The film V for Vendetta is a wonderful mix of Phantom of the Opera, Errol Flynn, and the Count of Monte Cristo, combined with modern day reaction to government overreach.”
“V is a beautiful spectacle of a film, with heavy doses of Shakespeare and Errol Flynn…”
“V is an anti-hero character … with an endearing Errol Flynn like persona.”
“V is dashing and sympathetic, like an anarchist Errol Flynn.”
“The film does a phenomenal job of insinuating flippant Errol Flynn…”
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Can You Hear It?
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Errol-like Repartee and Fight Scene
— Tim
Fickle Errol Switches His Lady-Loves!
04
Nov
“Errol Flynn’s wives, fiances, wives, and assorted girlfriends – in screen adventures, as well as his well-heeled real life – have tended toward the dark, sultry, exotice type. But Flynn has just changed.”
September 2, 1950
TRUTH – Brisbane, Queensland
FICKLE ERROL FLYNN SWITCHES HIS LADY-LOVES! – “WILL HE WED PATRICE??”
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September 10, 1950
TRUTH – Sydney, New South Wales
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MADERA TRIBUNE – October 23, 1950
— Tim
Errol Full of Arrows
04
Nov
November 4, 1950
New York Times
“Rocky Mountain (1950) – Errol Flynn is an ever gallant fellow, but he seems to carry gallantry too far in Warner Brothers’ “Rocky Mountain,” which came to the Strand yesterday. So far, in fact, does he carry it in guiding a beautiful dame from a horde of ravaging Indians that he ends up as full of arrows as a war-bonnet is full of feathers. And that’s about as far as one can go. The only valid explanation for (Mr. Flynn’s conclusive gallantry is that he here represents a Confederate captain and therefore a Southern gentleman. And it seems that a standing rule at Warners is that a Southern gentleman will lay down his life for a lady, even though it means disobeying Robert E. Lee.”
The Errol Flynn Rory knew…
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— Tim
