Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980
In Like Flynn
By James Wolcott
Errol Flynn: The Untold Story
by Charles Higham
Doubleday, 370 pp., $12.95
Stamped across Errol Flynn's face on the cover of Errol Flynn: The Untold Story is a large red swastika. Inside, the author Charles Higham is visited by Flynn's ghost, who congratulates him for slashing through a curtain of lies. 'You know what?' says Flynn's ghost in the prologue. 'I don't give a God damn. Where I am, there are no politics, no sex, no death, no contraband, no theft, no greed—though I've got to admit there are one hell of a lot of Nazis.' So even before the evidence has been spread upon the table, Errol Flynn is convicted of treason and sentenced to spend eternity swashbuckling in the company of Nazi ghouls.
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