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Errol Flynn Slept Here (Good Knight) is a voyage into a dark past... A fascinating, and thoroughly unexpected slice of cultural history.
[Full Review]
— Scott Eyman, book editor of the Palm Beach Post and
author of Louis B. Mayer: Lion of Hollywood and
Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford
Just when you think every bit of Hollywood history and
lore has been explored, along comes a book that's inventive,
surprising and impossible to put down... This handsomely produced
volume is the kind of book I intended to browse but wound up reading
from cover to cover. It stands as a tribute to the authors' enthusiasm
and perseverance...but we who love stories of vintage Hollywood are the
real beneficiaries.
[Full Review]
— Leonard Maltin, film critic
and historian,
reporter for Entertainment Tonight
, and
author of Leonard
Maltin's Movie Guide
Numerous books have been written about Errol Flynn, including
[Errol Flynn Slept Here,] a brilliant account of his house in 11
acres of ground on Mulholland Drive which boasted two-way mirrors,
secret staircases and sliding panels.
— Turner Classic Movies/UK
June 2009
This is the work of two researchers who document the facts
like good journalists, and I guarantee the journey will take your
breath away. As a reviewer I can offer nothing less than unbridled
enthusiasm for this haunting but majestic book.
— Thomas McNulty, author of Errol Flynn: The Life & Career
I first saw the outside of Mulholland house in 1977. It wasn't until 1987 that I was lucky to get inside. Now, with this book, everyone can get into the house and see before, during, and after photos. This book is a definite keeper for all who want to learn about Errol Flynn.
— Jack Marino, filmmaker and Errol Flynn historian
Take my advice. If you're at all interested in Flynn or how
he lived, who his buddies were, who were the glamorous women who
flitted in and out of his bedroom, then run don't walk to buy it!
[Full Review]
— Steve Hayes, friend of Errol
Flynn and author of
Googie's: Coffee Shop
to the Stars
I never thought at this stage I would discover a new volume on
the incomparable Errol Flynn that presented a vast collection of
intriguing photos and information that, to a large degree, have not
been previously available in book form. But Errol
Flynn Slept Here accomplishes just that — and in a
particularly engaging manner.
— Rudy Behlmer, co-author of
The Films of Errol Flynn
and author
of Inside Warner Bros.
Thanks for documenting a place impossible to describe without this
book. An Interesting and totally creepy read that was akin to taking a
trip back into the darker recesses of my adolescence...I actually went
back and felt the house...smelled that pinewood den...saw the linoleum
checkerboard dining room floor. The attic. That insanely deep swimming
pool...the thoughts of the parties hosted at the house where the luminaries
of Hollywood's Golden Age cast away their inhibitions...saw my bedroom
where I rehearsed my first real band and forged my musical dreams...relived
my parent's divorce and my father's last days. I have to admit — I
feel strange after the visit back to 3100 Torreyson Place — I am at
the same time saddened by the thought of what could have been combined
with the bittersweet reality of what was. It admittedly was a big part
of my life.
— Matthew Nelson, son of Rick
Nelson and founding member of
the platinum-selling rock band Nelson
This book does its job too well for my liking. It puts me right
back there, and I never want to go there again. But I'm glad I read
it... And I'm glad I was reminded of the fact that a house is just a
pile of stones and sticks, no matter how famous it is. It's the love
inside it that can turn any man's hovel into a castle, and the lack of
it that turned one man's castle into this man's prison.
[Full Review]
— Gunnar Nelson, son of Rick
Nelson and founding member of
the platinum-selling rock band
Nelson
There have been many books written about Errol Flynn, some of them
pretty good, but none to approach this newest from Robert Matzen and
Michael Mazzone. These authors seem to understand him perhaps best of
those (many) who've tackled this most enigmatic of subjects. They don't
shrink from aspects of Flynn that are dark, even disillusioning for many
of us who've admired him, but neither do they revel in that which must be
told in order to get the clearest—and rest assured, this book is all of
that—realization of who Flynn was and what brought him to places high and
low. I'm still not believing the man lived but fifty years! I read and
wondered how one person could take so much out of a single lifetime.
Such cosmic matters had not troubled me from previous Flynn readings. Is
it just that I'm older and wistful for having lived a by comparison
uneventful life, or is this a book so accomplished as to finally put Flynn
in a perspective long overdue me? I suspect it's Matzen and Mazzone who
finally brought it all home for this lifelong fan, and for that, I'm
eternally beholden. Where insight, humor, and compassion have seldom been
vested in treatments of this great star (and actor, by golly!), here's a
rich account with all of them in abundance. Errol Flynn Slept Here is a
man's life viewed through the portico of a dream home he loved and lost.
Read it and chances are you'll come away wishing to have lived in a place
half so fascinating.
— John McElwee, proprieter of
the popular blog,
Greenbriar Picture Shows
The authors researched an area that has not been written about often:
Flynn's homes and particularly his famous Mulholland House. The book
also covers who else lived at Flynn's house. This volume is a fresh look
at the times of Errol Flynn, a view that fans and historians will equally
enjoy as they view new facets of Flynn's life.
— Marc Wanamaker, film historian and
president of
Hollywood Heritage, Inc.