Yesterday after burning the midnight oil for three days I finished Robert Florczak’s superb and meticulous book “Errol Flynn: The Illustrated Life Chronology”, reading it from cover to cover as it was impossible to put down. At 320 large-size pages, with over 800 rare photographs, this is easily the finest, best written book on Flynn, that captures his heart and his very adventurous, restlessly, troubled soul, since Earl Conrad’s masterpiece “Errol Flynn: A Memoir”
For author Florczak this was a Herculean if not impossible task but he rose to the occasion. Yes, we see Errol Flynn the screen movie star whom we loved on the big screen but also the deeply caring and adoring father to his children. Unlucky in marriage to three of the world’s most beautiful women, the readers will come to admire Errol Flynn the man thanks,to this book. Robert Florczak, who acknowledges invaluable help from Flynn scholars Inga Klein and Josef Fegerel, has unearthed an enormous treasure of never before seen new material that will astonish the readers, including Errol Flynn’s lost (except for the first adventure) radio series “The Modern Adventures Of Casanova” and his ‘ghost’ film “Hello God”.
“Errol Flynn: The Illustrated Life Chronology” is both profound and brilliant and makes for unforgettable reading. One thing is certain, Errol Flynn’s first wife Lili Damita was the most gorgeous star in Hollywood then and now.
— Ralph Schiller
