Food fights and bar-room brawls fail to produce a chuckle, while the continual appearance of screaming young girls becomes annoying rather than farcical.Īpart from charting the first seven years of the Aussie actor’s career in Hollywood, the biopic also spends a good deal of time covering his off-screen escapades, including his stormy marriage to actress Lili Damita and his acquittal on the charge of statutory rape. Yet the film’s attempts to manufacture a light touch invariably result in a resounding thud. Duncan Regehr portrays screen idol Errol Flynn (1909-59) in a film based on the actors autobiography. Duncan Regehr has the looks and pedigree to be a half-decent swashbuckler, having been a figure skater and Olympic boxing contender before training as a Shakespearean actor. What it does conceal though, is any semblance of the star’s devil-may-care charm. In telling his side of the story, the biopic does not shy away from depicting the actor as a reckless, womanising rogue. Filmed at a time when the public’s perception of Errol Flynn had been tainted by author Charles Higham’s allegations that the matinee idol was a Nazi spy, My Wicked, Wicked Ways takes its title from Flynn’s posthumously released autobiography.
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