Cuban Story

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Aug 25 02:32:50 PDT 2002


On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Max B. Sawicky wrote:


> I thought Flynn was a nazi symp in WWII.
> ?

The Charles Higham biography (_Errol Flynn: The Untold Story_) that made this argument seems now to be universally denounced as a fraud.

Fwiw, the 1938 film "The Adventures of Robin Hood" that Flynn starred in is usually regarded as a transparent allegory of freedom fighters overthrowing totalitarianism. Someone argued somewhere that every big Robin Hood movie transparently reflected its era. The 70s got Sean Connery's revisionist anti-Vietnam one, and the 90s got Kevin Costner's multicultural celebrationist one.

Michael



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