It is hard to tell whether there was any truth to this, or just the boastings of an egomaniac. Someone he escapes an Indonesian tribe at the beginning. Nearly everyone else is killed, including a native. Then he gets in a fight with a man clearly way out of his league and somehow wins. In addition, he later gets in a fight with someone who nearly kills him, but somehow he gets up and wins. No permanent scars or damage, eh? Finally, the movie settles down when Erroll Flynn and three other men sail on a sloop to find gold in New Guinea. In the end, we find a little bit more finally about who these four men are, and their stories and personalities. Even then there was a ridiculous seen where one of them men gets stuck on a sail in the ocean. He is wearing shoes. From personal experience, don't try swimming with shoes on. These are supposed to be hardy men, but this man does not just take off his shoes and probably disentangles himself from the sail just by doing so. Seems hard to believe that a very good swimmer would drown this way. The scenery was great, and I believe this was the rough and hardy Australia and New Guinea of the 1920s. But then again, hard to believe four men could escape two dozen police officers.
Review of In Like Flynn
