Sunday, June 20, 2010

Cuban Rebel Girls

Belated RIP: Beverly Aadland - Errol Flynn's girlfriend and co-star in a film called Cuban Rebel Girls - one of the most fascinating movies ever made.

And one of the worst in some ways. I went into great detail in the second link above.


It's Errol Flynn's love poem to Castro and it's virtually impossible to find! It accentuates a fictional story with documentary-style narration and actual footage of the Cuban revolution, including rare shots of Fidel (beardless!) and Che.

See the first ten minutes below. The first eight minutes consist of Flynn in Havana, and are too boring to watch without a fast-forward button, but go to 8:10 to see where the fictional part begins! It's bad movie heaven that would make Ed Wood envious! The blond in that scene is Beverly Aadland.

Beverly had just turned 17 when Errol Flynn died - and she had been his girlfriend for more than two years! Oh, that old rascal! He was 48 when they met. An old 48. 48 going on dead.


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