[MD] What's up, Doc?

[Ant McWatt]

Ant McWatt stated Sept 22nd:

"Errol Flynn... can always be trusted to let you down at critical moments!"
 

Craig then asked Sept 22nd:


Ant,

Is this what you're referring to?
 
"During pre-war operations from an aircraft carrier off Hawaii.... LT Doug Lee (Errol Flynn), convinces the Senior Surgeon (Moroni Olsen) 
to operate but the pilot dies on the operating table. After Blake blames
 Lee for rushing the surgery, the doctor decides to become a flight 
surgeon, and winds up being trained at the U.S. Naval Air Station in San
 Diego by a number of instructors..."

[Wikipedia, Dive Bomber (film)]
 

Ant responds:

I guess it could have been this film that I was referring to but it was actually a quote from one of David Niven's books:

“The great thing about Errol, was
 you always knew precisely where you stood with him because he always 
let you down.”

That quote always makes me smile though Flynn's portrayal of Robin Hood is still my favourite one, and as Michael pointed out elsewhere, there was a little more to him than just a hard drinking womaniser:

"A talented writer himself, he had worked as a journalist and, in 
addition to his autobiography, published a novel and an account of a 
voyage he took around the coast of Australia. He said that writing 
relieved him of the sense of futility his film career gave him, and 
claimed he would rather have written three good books than made all of 
his movies."

http://www.movietone-news.com/2011/02/errol-flynn-colourful-fragment-in-drab.html


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