The problem with the movie is that it failed to capture the true lust for life that Errol Flynn obviously had-anyone who's read the book, the first tell all by a major star, can't help but be disappointed. The flick needed far more money, to make the scenes in the thirties and forties believable, and the director seemed to settle for first or second takes, because a lot of the scenes were pretty dreadful. It's not the actors fault, one can see some effort on their part, though Barbara Hershey is abysmal as Errol's wife. Of course the character is a take off on Flynn, who did indeed show on a similar show, see the movie if your a Flynn Fan.īut unfortunately, this film is pretty badly done. Whenever I think of Flynn I think of that line in "My Favorite Year" where the character Alan Swann says: "I'm not an actor, I'm a star!". I have a soft spot for this movie, if for nothing else it was filmed in the eighties and the subject is Errol Flynn, one of the greatest stars in Hollywood history.
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