It’s customary to regard the last decade or so of Errol Flynn’s career as this sad anti-climax – poor Errol, wasting it all away, The Adventures of Don Juan being his last classic-that-everyone-can-agree-on. And there’s certainly something to that – years of hard living visibly caught up with him, his material got worse once he left Warners.
However, even if Errol’s looks faded his acting ability didn’t – indeed, in some ways it improved. Errol was particularly effective when he was well cast as a person who had done a lot of living. They could be sad (Rocky Mountain, Roots of Heaven, Too Much Too Soon), or simply roguish (Against All Flags, Master of Ballantrae, The Golden Shanty). At least he remained in demand turning out varied work.
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