The original Hollywood bad boy lived harder than any script dared write.
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Acting
Flynn's own archive footage—charming, damaged, irreplaceable.
Direction
Heeley weaves legend and self-destruction with no pity.
Director
David Heeley
Ian Holm
Narrator (voice)
Errol Flynn
Self / Various Roles (archive footage) (archive sound)
Charles Chauvel
Self - Producer and Director (archive footage)
Patrice Wymore
Self - Widow of Errol Flynn
Vincent Sherman
Self - Director
Burt Reynolds
Self - Actor
Rudy Behlmer
Self - Author and Film Historian
Olivia de Havilland
Self - Actress (also archive footage)
Richard Dreyfuss
Self - Actor
Delmer Daves
Self - Writer and Director (archive footage)
David Niven
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Joanne Woodward
Self - Actress
Richard Schickel
Self - Author and Time Film Critic
Basil Rathbone
Self / Various Roles (archive sound) (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Flynn's autobiography 'My Wicked, Wicked Ways' was published posthumously and became a bestseller despite—or because of—its unflinching confessions.
Ian Holm had just played Bilbo Baggins in Lord of the Rings; his narration here carries unexpected elegiac weight.
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