Errol Flynn: The Untold Story

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Summary: HigamBottom's Up!
Review: Another typical example of slandering a Celebrated person postmortem. The book is a load of Doggy-do. The author never allowed facts nor ethics to impede his need to jump on the "Make some dough by ripping a dead guy" modern bandwagon. Buy MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, or Errol Flynn: A Memior, or Errol Flynn: The Life and Career, or From a Life of Adventure, if you want to read about the real and Joyous, or even the real and not so joyous Flynn. I gave Higams book 1 star only because they did not have a lower rating.

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Summary: HigamBottom's Up!
Review: Another typical example of slandering a Celebrated person postmortem. The book is a load of Doggy-do. The author never allowed facts nor ethics to impede his need to jump on the "Make some dough by ripping a dead guy" modern bandwagon. Buy MY WICKED WICKED WAYS, or Errol Flynn: A Memior, or Errol Flynn: The Life and Career, or From a Life of Adventure, if you want to read about the real and Joyous, or even the real and not so joyous Flynn. I gave Higams book 1 star only because they did not have a lower rating.

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Summary: hmm...
Review: Charlie, you are most certainly a VERY sad man

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Summary: attn: flynn fans. like it or not...
Review: i am a flynn fan. growing up as a child i watched his films and read numerous bios on the man. i idolized him. then, this book came out. i refused to believe this crap about a star i idolized.
well, a few years later and in retrospect one must give cudos to higham. the facts are facts. whether flynn actually spied for the nazis is debatable but the evidence (and there's an overwhelming amount of it) is that flynn was vehemently anti-semetic and he was a nazi sympathizer... i still love a lot of his films and always will but thank you mr. higham for shattering my naive illusions.

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Summary: actually should rate this less than 1 star
Review: It's a pity Mr. Higham didn't explore fiction as a means to make his living, as most of his writing seems to be comprised of mostly fictional accounts and very little fact. I truly believe that Mr. Higham intends, at first, upon writing a biography, but seems to get distracted somewhere between the last hit of whatever he's smoking and actually leaving the house to do any form of research on his subject. The Flynn book, if nothing else, is entertaining in its sheer fantasy alone...particularly the scene where Flynn flees the arms of his married lover and dives several stories from her window. If you're looking for comedy, "Errol Flynn: The Untold Story" holds at least a laugh a page.

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Summary: Untold?
Review: Or rather Made Up. Higham's book is fully readable, but it lacks truth. Higham is probably the proto-James Ellroy, who takes real persons out of Hollywood history and wraps them in fiction.
This book is well written but that's it. The whole Nazi spy/homsexual angle has been exposed as a fraud by the late, great Tony Thomas. Do yourself a favor and borrow this book at the library if you want to read it. Don't buy it.
"It's not a book to be tossed aside lightly, but rather thrown with great force..." -(...)

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Summary: both barrels blazing
Review: The untold story is an eyepoping story about a bloke who lives life to the max.From the age of 5 on flynn took life by the balls .A cautionary tale about the use of drug and its distruction of potential for change .Flynn no doubt was a ... to a lot of people but at the nub hollowood bored him.Many fantasic tales of daring do this fella was no ...kisser.