Actresses like Olivia De Havilland (Lee Purcell) and Damita, along with bigwigs like Jack Warner (Hal Linden) and John Barrymore (Barrie Ingham) are mentioned by name. When Flynn walks the WB backlot it’s the real WB backlot.

There’s no overt changing of names or fictional studios used.

I was very surprised to actually see acknowledgment of actors and studios. There’s no description of his origins and the movie falls into a pattern of womanizing, filming, womanizing, filming. The movie captures the films leading from Flynn’s début up to the late thirties-early forties and ending with the scandal of Flynn’s dalliance-and possible rape-of an underage girl of which he was later acquitted. My Wicked, Wicked Ways details the exploits of actor Errol Flynn (Duncan Regehr) and his torrid marriage to actress Lili Damita (Barbara Hershey).įor a two-hour and seventeen minute TV movie there’s a very small window of time covered, or the few events of Flynn’s life took several years to unfold. The acting isn’t terrible, but it’s hard to swallow a tale wherein the world apparently begins and ends with Flynn (then again, don’t all biopics?). (Let’s all think about the fact Gable and Lombard was released to theaters at all.) I compare the two because My Wicked, Wicked Ways, loosely based on Errol Flynn’s autobiography is only fascinated in showing life as Flynn perceived it (or as the screenwriters perceived Flynn to have lived his life), turning the movie into one misogynistic fantasy.

My Wicked, Wicked Ways is the bastard cousin of Gable and Lombard, if Gable and Lombard was a TV movie instead of a big-screen presentation.

My wicked wicked ways movie