AustLit

'The name still has an aura about it – “Errol Flynn”, an unusual appellation, even in his lifetime. It evokes another time and place – not just the Golden Years of Hollywood but the worlds they created on the backlot: pirates in the Caribbean, lancers in Imperial India, merry men in Sherwood Forest. He remains one of the great classical movie stars, with an image and private life that has few rivals in terms of exotica. His personal narrative has a Grecian mythology aspect about it: the stunningly beautiful man who was worshiped like a God, only to disintegrate physically, morally, mentally and professionally through his own hubris. Brilliant, vain, insecure, anti-Semitic, ephebophilic, charming, alcoholic, Australian.'

Source: Introduction.