Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn
Date of Birth: 20 Jun 1909
Country: Australia
Biography: Errol Flynn was born to parents Theodore Flynn, a respected biologist, and Marrelle Young, an adventurous young woman and descendant of a midshipman of HMS Bounty fame. IMDB
Total Credits at Criticker: 62 (Actor), 2 (Director), 3 (Writer)
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army. (imdb)
Captain Blood
An enslaved English doctor and his comrades in chains escape and become pirates of the Robin Hood variety. (imdb)
Santa Fe Trail
The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War. (imdb)
Rabbit Hood
Rabbit Hood (1949) - Short Film
While unwittingly trespassing in the royal gardens in search of carrots, Bugs runs afoul of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who tries to apprehend him for poaching... (imdb)
They Died with Their Boots On
This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians. (imdb)
The Sea Hawk
Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship and when he comes aboard he finds Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal... (imdb)
The Prince and the Pauper
On the same day two boys are born: the pauper Tom and prince Edvard. As a kid, Tom sneaks into the palace garden and meet the prince. They change clothes with each other but the guards discover them and throw out the prince, since they are almost identical. Nobody believe them when they try to tell the truth. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne. (imdb)
Edge of Darkness
It's two years after the Nazi's invasion of Norway and in a small fishing village that is headquarters to 150 German soldiers, the 800 locals are stewing, waiting for a supply of arms so they can revolt. Leaders include Karen Stensgard, whose father is the town's doctor and not all that sure that an open revolt will accomplish much and whose brother has proven disloyal to Norway previously, and Gunnar Brogge, a fisherman who was planning to sail to England to fight but changed his mind on hearing of English arms being delivered.(imdb)
The Dawn Patrol
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip. (imdb)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children. This leaves an inextinguishable memory and Vickers promises to revenge the dead. (imdb)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
Director Michael Curtiz's period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux (Errol Flynn), the Earl of Essex... (imdb)
Four\
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert. When he finds out that Pat is dating Lorri, John Dillingwell's granddaughter, he gets involved. Robert begins to make John the most hated man and Lorri blames Pat, the publisher... (imdb)
Kim
Kim, a young boy living on his own on the streets of India, is actually the son of a British officer. He meets a lama, a holy man, and devotes himself to his tending.
Adventures of Don Juan
The great lover Don Juan comes to the assistance of his queen. (IMDb)
Dodge City
Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won't have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that's the West. (imdb)
Objective, Burma!
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle. (imdb)
The Sun Also Rises
Paris in the 1920s. The American journalist Jake and his friends spend the time at cafes. He has a special interest in his ex-fiancée Lady Ashley. They take a vacation in Pamplona to watch the bull-fights. (imdb)
It\
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her. (imdb)
Desperate Journey
When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target, they discover valuable information, about a hidden German aircraft factory, that must get back to England. In their way across Germany, they try and cause as much damage as possible. Then with the chasing Germans about to pounce, they come up with an ingenious plan to escape. (imdb)
Gentleman Jim
As bareknuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world. (imdb)
Virginia City
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy. (imdb)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Eddie Cantor insists upon being chairman of the Cavalcade of Stars benefit show, in return for the use of his vocalist, Dinah Shore. Cantor disrupts the producers' plans with his own egocentric ideas. When they discover a talented bus driver named Joe Simpson, who can't get an acting job because he too closely resembles Eddie Cantor, a scheme is hatched to put the show back on track. (imdb)
San Antonio
Tough dance hall girl working for the local villain falls for a cowboy trying to clean up the town. (imdb)
Dive Bomber
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive. (imdb)
The Sisters
Three western girls make unhappy marriages at the turn of the century. (TCM.com)
Against All Flags
In 1700, the pirates of Madagascar menace the India trade; British officer Brian Hawke has himself cashiered, flogged, and set adrift to infiltrate the pirate "republic." There, Hawke meets lovely Spitfire Stevens, a pirate captain in her own right, and the sparks begin to fly; but wooing a pirate poses unique problems. Especially after he rescues adoring young Princess Patma from a captured ship. Meanwhile, Hawke's secret mission proceeds to an action-packed climax. (imdb)
The Master of Ballantrae
Buckle on your swashes for this swashbuckling adventure with a highlander who fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie who, after various escapades, becomes a pirate. (imdb)
Montana
An Australian sheepman comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman. (imdb)
Rocky Mountain
A Confederate troop, led by Captain Lafe Barstow, is prowling the far ranges of California and Nevada in a last desperate attempt to build up an army in the West for the faltering Confederacy. Because the patrol saves a stagecoach, with Johanna Carterr as one of the passengers, from an Indian attack, and is marooned on a rocky mountain, it fails in its mission but the honor of the Old South is upheld. (imdb)
Adventures of Captain Fabian
A daring sea captain risks both his life and the lives of his crew as he attempts to rescue a lovely servant girl who was falsely imprisoned for murder. After his plan succeeds, his real troubles begin.
Uncertain Glory
Jean Picard is a criminal who is about to be executed, but an air raid interrupts it and allows him to escape. Inspector Bonet brings him back. But along the way, they hear that a railway bridge vital to the Germans has been destroyed. The Germans take 100 Frenchmen and are threatening to execute them unless the saboteurs come forward. Picard who would rather die at the hands of the firing squad as oppose to the guillotine, offers to go to the Germans and say that he is the saboteur (imdb)
Cry Wolf
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family. (TCM.com)
Silver River
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends. (imdb)
That Forsyte Woman
The Forsytes, Soames and Irene Forsyte is a marriage of covenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife's death. Teenager June Forsyte has found love with an artist, Phillip Bosseny. The interactions of these Forsytes and the people and society around them is the truss for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age. (imdb)
The Roots of Heaven
A final condemnation of violence and intolerance through the story of Morel's adventures. Morel lives in Africa and can not stand the massacre of the elephants. He starts to fight to banish this hunt and to awake the world's consciousness. As he starts, nobody supports him, but thanks to American reporter Sedgwick, he becomes famous. (imdb)
Northern Pursuit
Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
Never Say Goodbye
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 8-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous. (imdb)
The Perfect Specimen
Gerald Wicks is being groomed by his dictatorial millionaire grandmother to be a responsible pater familias in total seclusion from the world, "a lily in a hothouse", he calls it. Then one day Mona, a tough-as-nails female reporter, comes crashing through the gates and before long Gerald takes off on his own to seek out his newfound friend and they set out to explore life together. (imdb)
The Case of the Curious Bride
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry Mason plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. Even though she says that she is asking for a friend, Perry can see right through her. It seems that her husband Moxley, who had been allegedly dead for four years, is alive and demanding money as she has married into wealth. The case escalates when the police find the body of Moxley and charge her with the murder. (imdb)
Green Light
An idealistic doctor sacrifices his career to protect an elderly surgeon.
Don\
A bookmaker insures a man against his daughter's marriage within three years and goes to all lengths to prevent it.
Footsteps in the Dark
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out. (imdb)
King\
Richard, raffish heir to the throne of Laurentia, accepts exile in order to live with the woman he loves - Marta Karillos. After seven years, however, on the death of his father, he is persuaded to return, to succeed to the throne, and to accept a proxy marriage to Princess Cristiane of Norseland.
Escape Me Never
An erratic but talented composer is torn between two women, his wife who loves him for what he is, and the one who loves him for what she hopes he will become.
Lilacs in the Spring
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
Mara Maru
An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
Istanbul
Adventurer James Brennan returns to Istanbul five years after being ejected under suspicion of diamond smuggling. In flashback, he recalls his last days there, his torrid love affair with Stephanie Bauer, the efforts of shady characters to obtain a strange ornament he received from a friend, and Stephanie's disappearance during a fire. Now that Brennan is back, Stephanie (or her double) reappears, and there's still the question of where the supposedly smuggled diamonds are...
Another Dawn
An officer's wife at a British outpost in Africa falls for another man.
The Dark Avenger
The son of the king, Prince Edward is given control of Aquitaine, a French area recently conquered by the British. But, he has his hands full when his skeleton army of men might face a rebellion from the French.
The Big Boodle
In pre-Castro Cuba, Ned Sherwood is caught between police and counterfeiters.
In the Wake of the Bounty
Staged sequences re-enact the final voyage of the Bounty as angry sailors, led by Fletcher Christian (Errol Flynn), rise up against brutal Captain Bligh (Mayne Lynton), expelling the captain from the ship and eventually settling on Pitcairn Island, near Tahiti. In addition, documentary footage visits Pitcairn Island in 1933, offering a look at the place where Christian and his men took shelter and visiting with several islanders who are descendants of the Bounty's crew members.
The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution
Film about the Cuban revolution
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family. (imdb)
Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol, but there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba (imdb)
Crossed Swords
Story of adventures of Renzo and his companion in medieval Italy. (imdb)
Cuban Rebel Girls
Errol Flynn , playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . The film was shot, with Castro's cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista. (imdb)
Too Much, Too Soon
The movie tells the true story of Diana Barrymore, a theatrical actress who acted on both stage and screen was once part of the legendary Barrymore family. Behind the cameras and backstage, Diana Barrymore would suffer through alcohol and drugs. (imdb)
Cruise of the Zaca
Actor Erroll Flynn takes a group of scientists from the California Institute of Oceanography on an expedition to the South Seas aboard his schooner, The Zaca. (imdb)
Always Together
Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Turner gets better and wants his money back, opening conflict for the newlyweds. Throughout the movie Jane imagines her own experiences as if they were taking place in movies with real movie stars in them. (imdb)
Breakdowns of 1944
Warner Bros bloopers from 1944.
Peeks at Hollywood
Two young beautiful starlets use the Griffith Observatory telescope to find stars in Hollywood.
Deep Sea Fishing
A ten-minute short film that shows actor Errol Flynn and archer Howard Hill fishing for marlin and sail fish near Acapulco.