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Entertaining and sad
This film is highly entertaining because it deals with an actor that is kind of a legend, Erroll Flynn. He is at once a success and particularly with women, especially young women, if not teenagers and girls, with his films. He marries a French actress who was also very popular. She more or less forces him into marrying her, but she cannot cope with his success and feels cheated and rejected. So she gets into a decaying approach of her own life. When she gets pregnant she decides to ask for a divorce, bringing together what could be a great joy with what is a great drama. She has never been able to cope with the success of her own husband that she married within this own success. Maybe she was hoping to make him her devotee, her "slave" and that shows she had not understood what the life of a popular actor is. The sad point of the film, and what I have just told is sad enough, is that Erroll Flynn is more or less broken in his career by these events and he loses his art, his talent, and little by little delves into marginal compensations such as alcohol and sex. This leads to a totally unfair accusation of rape. He is acquitted by a court but the stain will remain forever and he will be finished in his career, in his life, in his psyche even. Hollywood is often enough a long and dangerous pilgrimage to hell more often than to heavens.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan

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Not so wicked after all
I watched this on the heels of reading Errol Flynn's wildly entertaining yet at times hauntingly poignant "My Wicked, Wicked Ways," the book on which this movie is based. If you watch this alone without much knowledge of the swashbuckling legend--apart from the things that have entered into popular lore, of course--than it is a slickly superficial yet effectively entertaining story but seems more intent upon focusing on Flynn'a partying, bar-room brawls and womanizing ways than on the charming yet surprisingly depthful screen idol who battled his personal demons. For added measure the script throws in a fictitious and lengthy sub-story portraying Flynn and first wife Lili Damita as soulmates with she a grounding and calm influence in his life--it suppose this was meant to showcase Flynn's "sensitive" side. If youi've read the book, however, than this film falls short in focusing for the most part on the prurient aspects of Flynn's life and leaving untouched the more serious areas--his poisonous relationship with his mother, serial sexual appetite, drug and alcohol abuse, insecurities and death wishes. Somewhat-Flynn lookalike Duncan Regehr does the best he can in attempting to portray a legend; Barbara Hershey puts in a solid performance as a loving and comforting Lili Damita; and Lee Purcell makes an astonishing lookalike as Olivia de Havilland. I agree with one of the reviewers--ending with the 31-year old Flynn's rape trial is unfortunate since it left out the rest of his eventful 19 years of living. It would truly be interesting to see a no-holds-barred biopic--perhaps with modern-day lookalike Kevin Kline--although it may already be too late as he is getting along in years--which focused on the fabulous and fascinating yet flawed individual that was Flynn.

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Until they release a better version,this one will do
I thoroughly enjoyed the film, and until I see a better rendition, I will watch it again and again .If nothing else,the public gets a glimpse of Mr Flynn as his naughty best. Duncan Regehr did well as Flynn, but nobody could be Flynn but Flynn. This should be released on DVD!