Bibliography:

The Films
of Errol Flynn
by Tony Thomas,
Rudy Behlmer,
& Clifford McCarty
Pub: Citadel Press

The Warner
Brothers Story
by Clive Hirschhorn
Pub: Crown

Hollywood at War:
The American Motion
Picture and WWII
by Ken D. Jones &
Arthur F. McClure

Please note that this is in release order. Will enter more actual release dates as they become available. If you have sources for more dates, don't hesitate to e-mail (please note that the date of a preview screening does not count as the day of release). Errol Flynn has star billing unless otherwise noted. An asterisk ("*") beside the title means it is available on video in North America; in time I'll have a page with assorted video access info as well:

• In the Wake of the Bounty*

  Expeditionary Films Production · dir. Charles Chauvel

  Comments: Filmed in Sydney, Australia & Tahiti.
  

• Murder at Monte Carlo

  Warner Bros. First National (Europe) · dir. Ralph Ince

  Comments: 2nd billing · Filmed in England · Believed to be missing.

• The Case of the Curious Bride

  Warner Bros. - First National (WB-FN)
  · dir. Mike Curtiz

  w/Warren William & Claire Dodd

  Comments: 13th billing · Bit parts include brief appearance as a corpse

• Don't Bet on Blondes

  Warner Bros. · dir. Robert Florey

  Warren William, Guy Kibbee, Clair Dodd

  Comments: 8th billing

• Captain Blood* · December, 1935

  Cosmopolitan/Warner Bros. · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone,
  Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee

  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  Comments: Character based in part on legendary pirate Captain Morgan
  · Academy Award Nominee for Best Picture
  

• Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

  MGM · Technicolor · Continuity: Alexander Van Dorn

  Short film incorporating entertainment with stock footage of celebrities; Flynn appears briefly with wife Lili Damita.

• The Charge of the Light Brigade*

  Warner Bros. · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles,
  David Niven, Donald Crisp

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Shot at studio & in Chico, CA
  · Set in the Crimean War · Spot the wedding ring!
  

• The Green Light

  Cosmopolitan/Warner Bros. · dir. Frank Borzage

  Anita Louise, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Spring Byington

  Music by Max Steiner

• The Prince and the Pauper*

  Warner Bros. · dir. William Keighley

  Mauch Twins, Claude Rains, Alan Hale

  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  Comments: This is really the Twins' film.

• Another Dawn

  Warner Bros. · dir. William Dieterle

  Kay Francis, Ian Hunter

  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

• The Perfect Specimen

  Warner Bros. · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert, Edward Everett Horton

  Comments: Spot the wedding ring!
  

• The Adventures of Robin Hood *

  WB-FN · Technicolor · dirs. M. Curtiz & W. Keighley

  Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Alan Hale, Una O'Connor, Eugene Pallette, Ian Hunter, Melville Cooper

  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  Comments: Winner Academy Awards for Art Direction & Best Original Score
  · Filmed at studio & on location in Chico, CA
  · Regarded as the definitive film version of Robin Hood. · (there's a car in a shot - e-mail me for details)

• Four's a Crowd

  Warner Bros. · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles, Walter Connolly, Hugh Herbert, Franklin Pangborn, Margaret Hamilton, Melville Cooper
  

  Comments: Spot the wedding ring!

• The Sisters*

  Warner Bros. · dir. Anatole Litvak

  Bette Davis, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Donald Crisp,
  Alan Hale, Beulah Bondi, Patric Knowles

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: This is really a Bette Davis film.

• The Dawn Patrol*

  Warner Bros. · dir. Edmund Goulding

  David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp,
  Melville Cooper

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Not a single female appears in this film
  

• Dodge City* · April 1st, 1939

  Warner Bros. · Technicolor · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Cabot, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Flynn's first western

• The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
  aka Elizabeth the Queen · December 1st, 1939
  

  WB-FN · Technicolor · dir. Mike Curtiz
  

  Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp,
  Alan Hale, Vincent Price

  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  Comments: 2nd billing

• Virginia City*

  WB-FN · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Frank McHugh,
  Alan Hale, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Charters, Ward Bond, George Reeves

  Comments: Check out Bogey trying to play a Mexicano · Look for George Reeves if you can - he's in there somewhere!

• The Sea Hawk* · August, 1940

  WB-FN · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Una O'Connor, Gilbert Roland

  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  Comments: Released with extended epilogue (now avail. on video) · Released in B+W with New World sequences in sepia (also on video)
  · Based on Sir Francis Drake and the "Sea Dog" privateers of the 1500s (NOT the Sabatini novel!).

• Santa Fe Trail*

  WB-FN · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, Van Heflin, Alan Hale,
  Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Twisted account of Jeb Stuart and Abolitionist John Brown, with de Havilland as Kit Carson and Ronald Reagan as George Custer
  

• Footsteps in the Dark*

  WB-FN · dir. Lloyd Bacon

  Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins,
  Alan Hale, William Frawley

• Dive Bomber * · August 15, 1941

  WB-FN · Technicolor · dir. Mike Curtiz

  Alexis Smith, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy,
  Allen Jenkins, Gig Young, Alan Hale Jr.

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Shot in part on location at San Diego Naval Air Station
  

• They Died With Their Boots On*
  · January 1st, 1942 ·

  WB-FN · dir. Raoul Walsh

  Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Hattie McDaniel, Anthony Quinn,Sydney Greenstreet

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Final film with de Havilland
  · Divorce from first wife Lili Damita during filming
  · Largely fictional account of the career of George Armstrong Custer

• Desperate Journey* · August 18, 1942

  WB-FN · dir. Raoul Walsh

  Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey,
  Arthur Kennedy, Alan Hale

  Music by Max Steiner

• Gentleman Jim*

  WB-FN · dir. Raoul Walsh

  Alexis Smith, Alan Hale, Ward Bond, Jack Carson, William Frawley

  Comments: In first-run theatres during statutory rape trial· Based on boxer James J. Corbett; Ward Bond as John L. Sullivan · Flynn reportedly collapsed on the set from a mild heart attack during climactic fight

• Edge of Darkness* · March 23, 1943

  WB-FN · dir. Lewis Milestone

  Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston

  Music by Franz Waxman

  Comments: First film shot after the statutory rape trial

• Thank Your Lucky Stars*

  WB-FN · Flynn's musical sequence dir. Raoul Walsh

  Eddie Cantor film with all-star cast

  Comments: Flynn sequence was filmed during statutory rape trial

• Northern Pursuit* · October 25, 1943

  WB-FN · dir. Raoul Walsh

  w/ Gene Lockhart
  

• Uncertain Glory*

  WB-FN · dir. Raoul Walsh

  Paul Lukas, Jean Sullivan

  Comments: Signs of declining health from substance abuse VERY noticeable in shots
  

• Objective, Burma!* · February 15, 1945

  WB-FN · dir. Raoul Walsh

  w/George Tobias

  Music by Franz Waxman

  Coments: Effective semi-documentary style, but portrayal of Japanese soldiers is unconvincing and borders on cartoony

• San Antonio*

  WB-FN · Technicolor · dir. David Butler
  

  Alexis Smith, S. Z. Sakall, Doodles Weaver

  Music by Max Steiner
  

• Never Say Goodbye*

  WB-FN · dir. James V. Kern

  Eleanor Parker, S. Z. Sakall, Forrest Tucker,
  Hattie McDaniel
  

• Cry Wolf*

  WB-FN · dir. Peter Godfrey

  Barbara Stanwick, Gerladine Brooks,
  Richard Basehart

  Comments: Campy noir film

• Escape Me Never*

  WB-FN · dir. Peter Godfrey

  Ida Lupino, Eleanor Parker, Gig Young,
  Reginald Denny

  Music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

  Comments: Most likely filmed right after Never Say Good-bye

• Always Together

  WB · dir. Frederick de Cordova

  Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Ernest Truex

  Comments: Miscellaneous notable Warner stars including Flynn appear in fantasy flashbacks throughout the film.
  

• Silver River*

  WB-FN · dir. Raoul Walsh

  Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell

  Comments: Music by Max Steiner
  

• Adventures of Don Juan*

  WB-FN · Technicolor · dir. Vincent Sherman

  Viveca Lindfors, Alan Hale, Robert Douglas,
  Una O'Connor, Raymond Burr

  Music by Max Steiner (used again for Zorro, The Gay Blade)

  Comments: Cameo appearance by second wife Nora Eddington-Flynn
  · Shots recycled from Adventures of Robin Hood
  and The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex

• It's a Great Feeling*

  WB-FN · Technicolor · dir. David Butler

  Doris Day, Jack Carson, Dennis Morgan,
  and an all-star cast

  Music by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn

  Comments: Flynn appears in cameo for the film's punchline
  

• That Forsyte Woman*

  MGM · Technicolor · dir. Compton Bennett

  Greer Garson, Walter Pigeon, Robert Young,
  Janet Leigh
  

• Montana*

  WB-FN · Technicolor · dir. Ray Enright

  Alexis Smith, S. Z. Sakall

• Rocky Mountain

  WB-FN · dir. William Keighley

  Patrice Wymore, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams,
  Slim Pickens

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Flynn meets and eventually marries co-star Wymore · Flynn's final western
  

• Kim*

  MGM · Technicolor · dir. Victor Saville

  Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas

  Music by André Previn

  Comments: Some locations shot in India

• Hello God

  Written, produced, & directed by William Marshall

  Comments: Shot in USA and Italy between location and local shooting schedules for Kim · Released sporadically in Europe

• Adventures of Captain Fabian

  Silver Films/ Republic · dir. William Marshall

  Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead

  Comments: Screenplay by Flynn
  

• Mara Maru

  WB-FN · dir. Gordon Douglas

  Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr

  Music by Max Steiner

  Comments: Shots filmed around So. California

• Against All Flags

  Universal-International · Technicolor
  · dir. George Sherman

  Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn

  Comments: Broke ankle during shooting

• Cruise of the Zaca

  Warner Bros. · dir. Errol Flynn

  Prof. Theodore Flynn (Errol's Dad),
  2nd wife Nora Eddington-Flynn-Haymes,
  artist John Decker, archer Howard Hill,
  Prof. Carl Hubbs of Scripps Institute

  Comments: Documentary and travelogue from footage filmed in 1946 · Flynn narrates

• Deep Sea Fishing

  Distributor uncredited · Supervision: Howard Hill

  Howard Hill with Flynn et al

  Comments: A home movie demonstrating the legendary archer's finesse with bow and arrow while at sea · Allegedly filmed during the excursion for The Cruise of the Zaca
  

• The Master of Ballantrae*

  Warner Bros. · Technicolor · dir. William Keighley

  w/Roger Livesey

  Comments: Filmed in England
  

• Crossed Swords

  Viva Films/United Artists · Pathécolor
  · dir. Milton Krims

  w/Gina Lollobrigida

  Comments: Filmed in Italy

• William Tell

  (no distributor) · dir. Jack Cardiff

  Bruce Cabot, Antonella Lualdi

  Comments: Incomplete and unreleased
  · Filmed in Italy
  

• Let's Make Up*
  aka Lilacs in the Spring

  Everest Pictures/United Artists · Eastmancolor · dir. Herbert Wilcox

  Anna Neagle, David Farrar, Peter Graves

  Comments: Released in the USA in B+W
  Filmed in England

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• The Warriors*
  aka The Dark Avenger

  Allied Artists/20th Century Fox · Eastmancolor
  · dir. Henry Levin

  Joanne Dru, Peter Finch

  Comments: Filmed in Hertfordshire, England

• King's Rhapsody*

  Everest Pictures/United Artists · Eastmancolor
  · dir. Herbert Wilcox

  Anna Neagle, Patrice Wymore

  Comments: Filmed in England in CinemaScope
  

• Istanbul*

  Universal-International · Technicolor
  · dir. Joseph Pevney

  Cornell Borchers, Peggy Knudsen, Nat King Cole,
  Werner Klemperer

  Comments: Nat King Cole's screen debut
  · Filmed in CinemaScope
  

• The Big Boodle*
  aka Night in Havana

  Monteflor/United Artists · dir. Richard Wilson

  Rossana Rory, Gia Scala

  Comments: Filmed on location in Havana
  

• The Sun Also Rises

  20th Century Fox · Color by DeLuxe · dir. Henry King

  Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Eddie Albert

  Comments: 4th billing · Filmed in CinemaScope
  · Filmed in Paris, Pamplona, Biarritz, as well as
  in Mexico in Morelia & Mexico City
  

• Too Much, Too Soon

  Warner Bros. · dir. Art Napoleon

  Dorothy Malone, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

  Comments: Flynn does an exceptional portrayal of John Barrymore · Receives 2nd billing

• The Roots of Heaven

  20th Century Fox · color by DeLuxe · dir. John Huston

  Juliette Greco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert,
  Orson Welles, Paul Lukas, Herbert Lom

  Comments: Filmed in Africa and Paris in CinemaScope
  

• Cuban Rebel Girls*
  aka Attack of the Cuban Rebel Girls

  Exploit Films/Joseph Brenner Associates · dir. Barry Mahon

  w/Beverly Aadland

  Comments: Filmed in Cuba and New York City · Flynn also narrates · (It would be cool if Bad Brains did an MST3K to this one)
  

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