Errol Flynn: The Untold Story [Hardcover]

Charles Higham (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 370 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (January 1, 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385134959
• ISBN-13: 978-0385134958
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,094,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A mean, hateful book that doesn't come close to truth, June 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Errol Flynn: The Untold Story (Hardcover)

This book is so full of riduculous, unsupported accusations that it becomes comical to see what Mr. Higham will think of next. There is not one decent piece of evidence to assert that Flynn was a Nazi spy, homosexual, or murderer. Keep writing about dead people, Charlie. They can't sue!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Untold?, July 12, 2004

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earthwormgym "earthwormgym" (Fort Washington, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Errol Flynn: The Untold Story (Hardcover)

Or rather Made Up. Higham's book is fully readable, but it lacks truth. Higham is probably the proto-James Ellroy, who takes real persons out of Hollywood history and wraps them in fiction.
This book is well written but that's it. The whole Nazi spy/homsexual angle has been exposed as a fraud by the late, great Tony Thomas. Do yourself a favor and borrow this book at the library if you want to read it. Don't buy it.
"It's not a book to be tossed aside lightly, but rather thrown with great force..." -(...)

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars actually should rate this less than 1 star, June 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Errol Flynn: The Untold Story (Hardcover)

If you want a good book about Errol Flynn, DON'T buy this one. Higham belabors Flynn's supposed homosexuality and status as a spy ad nauseum - and with very little, if any at all, fact to back the allegations up. Most sources, when they're named at all, are dead now so they can't be questioned; very few paper references are cited; and the book sounds much more like a work of fiction than an autobiography. A much better book is the newest one, Inherited Risk, by Jeffrey Meyers.