FLYNN QUIZ:
What famous writer and explorer bought a plantation from Errol?
CLUE:
In addition to writing and exploring, did a lot of bicycling, too!
— Tim
Archive for the ‘Behind the Scenes’ Category
The Unsinkable Secret of Sherwood Forest
04
Mar
First emerging from medieval ballads in the 14th century, the legend of Robin Hood was expanded during Shakespeare’s day, and Sir Walter Scott took it up in Ivanhoe in 1820. Hollywood picked up the tale with Errol Flynn’s masterpiece in 1938, and later with Disney’s popular animated 1973 version, followed by more recent versions including a film by Ridley Scott.
Oklahoma has its own inspiring connection to this timeless tale. In 1943 a band of roughnecks in their teens and early 20s volunteered for a secret mission to go abroad to assist in developing an oil field located deep in England’s Sherwood Forest. Oklahoma-based Noble Drilling Co., along with Fain-Porter signed a contract to drill 100 wells to help fuel England, mired in World War II and desperate for oil, merely for costs and expenses.
England’s oil production had shot from 300 barrels of oil a day to more than 3,000 barrels of oil a day.
By the end of the war, more than 3.5 million barrels of crude had been pumped from England’s “unsinkable tanker” oilfields.
Today, The Oil Patch Warrior, a seven foot bronze statue of an Oklahoma roughneck holding a four foot pipe wrench stands near Nottingham England.
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— Tim
Errol Flynn In Town Tonight
02
Mar
New article on when Errol appeared on In Town Tonight BBC show humorously trying to convince host John Ellison to get his cheque book out to help fund the completion of The Adventures of William Tell.
www.bbc.co.uk/archive/hollywood/10219.shtml…
“In this light-hearted interview, swashbuckling Hollywood star Errol Flynn talks with John Ellison about the filming of his current movie, which recounts the story of folk hero William Tell, and explains that he is in London to see whether anyone can lend him the £50,000 he needs to complete it.”
As Flynnmates know:”Errol was unable to raise the money he needed for his William Tell project and the film was never finished.”
For more on Errol’s William Tell,see shangheinz’ superb posts.he’s the no tell errol tell authority.
The William Tell trail- Errol Flynn`s swashbuckling swansong
— Tim
SEE ERROL FLYNN’S GHOST — IN MIAMI!
28
Feb
MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL 2019
ERROL FLYNN’S GHOST: HOLLYWOOD IN HAVANA
FLORIDA PREMIERE
SHOWTIMES:
@ The MDC Tower Theater: Wednesday March 6th @ 6:30 PM towertheatermiami.com…
@ The Silverspot Cinema: Sunday March 10th @ 1:00 PM downtownmiami.silverspot.net…
DIRECTED BY Gaspar González
Country: USA
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 50min
Film Year: 2018
Category: Documentary Achievement Award
Cuba’s pre-revolution obsession with Hollywood cinema in the first half of the 20th century led Havana to create some of the most majestic movie palaces of their time in the Americas, where millions of Cubans spent their evenings gazing at the silver screen stars of yesteryear. One of those stars, Errol Flynn, Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler, traveled to Cuba in late 1958 to overcome his stage a Hollywood comeback, but instead found himself in the middle of a real-life adventure more improbable than the plot of any film he ever made: recklessly endorsing the rhetoric of Fidel Castro and the soon-to-come revolution. Flynn self-produced a disastrous B-movie, Cuban Rebel Girls, and died soon afterwards.
Miami filmmaker Gaspar González finds in Flynn’s demise a fitting parallel to the end of Hollywood glamor in the Havana movie palaces. Although many of the great Havana movie houses are still standing, they are haunted by their long-gone heydays. With a detailed and careful eye, González reflects on the remnants of a film culture that so deeply affected and defined a nation’s collective memory.
SHOWTIMES:
CREDITS
Director: Gaspar González
Producer: Gaspar González
Screenwriter: Gaspar González
Executive Producer: Gaspar González
Production Company: Hammer and Nail Productions
Music: Mickey de Grand IV
Cinematographer: Richard Patterson
Editor: Jorge Rubiera
Cast: Scott Eyman, Megan Feeney, Christina Lane, Nat Chediak
— Tim
Errol’s Awesome Auburn
28
Jan
Errol Flynn and Marlene Dietrich tooled around Hollywood in limited-production Auburn Speedsters, the most flamboyant of the boattail breed.
— Tim
A Classical Quiz
19
Jan
What classical music is used for a theme in the first official U. S. trailer for “In Like Flynn” ?
Classical Clues:
It’s one of the most recognizable musical masterpieces in the world.
The composer was very famous in his own lifetime.
This particular composition of his, however, was not published until forty years after his death.
— Tim
For Auld Lang Syne
01
Jan
Eighty Years Ago
Featuring Errol and a host of Hollywood stars in the 7 minute short For Auld Lang Syne,
James Cagney introduced himself and proceeded to identify the attending guests as they arrived at this benefit function, most of whom stepped up to a microphone to be interviewed on the radio by George Jessel, although the only voice heard during the “arrival” sequence is that of Cagney’s.
Cagney introduced Rudy Vallee as the M.C., and Valle presented the Benny Goodman Orchestra in a swing number and then introduced Dick Powell who sang “Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride” from 1938’s “Cowboy from Brooklyn.” Donald Crisp comes on and introduces himself as the co-M.C. and then he introduces Paul Muni, who makes the appeal to the theatre audience to make donations to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital.
In order of appearance on-screen was: Cagney, Hugh Herbert, Glenda Farrell, George Jessel, Humphrey Bogart, John Barrymore, Bette Davis, Harmon Nelson, Hal Wallis, Louise Fazenda, Basil Rathbone, Marie Wilson, Freddie Bartholomew, Paul Muni, Errol Flynn, Lili Damita, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Dick Powell, Donald Crisp and Muni again.
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To Fans of Flynn Around the Globe:
— Tim
