Sample: on board a liner he meets a beautiful Japanese woman who is being accompanied by her Swiss husband to Europe as she is seriously ill. There is much less here about the films than about the selfish personal life. It has proved remarkably popular as a warts-and-all (mostly genital), if unreliable, account of the actor’s restless life. Produced with ghostwriter Earl Conrad, who was apparently constantly drunk and chasing women during drafting – so perfectly in sympathy with his collaborator – Flynn had died, aged only 50, by the time My Wicked, Wicked Ways was published. Normally one would expect such preliminary words to be uplifting, but remarkably these verses have been included as a mission statement for what follows, as if implying justification by divine sanction, and they prove uncannily accurate it is a remarkable act of swagger which is amply fulfilled in the following 380 pages. ‘Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.-’ Errol Flynn’s ‘autobiography’ has an epigraph taken from Romans 1:29-30:
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