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116-462: The series' hero is aged movie star Jonathan Lord, nicknamed "The Lord of Hollywood" by the press. He is based on swashbuckling actors Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power , and back-matter in the comics showed the three being contemporaries and friends. He is also compared at moments to Boris Karloff , Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney , for playing various monsters. Lord's most famous film was the fictional 1940 adventure/horror The Silver Blade , where he played

232-475: A Hispanic American college student from Ivy Town. She is revealed to be working as a reluctant spy for Amanda Waller and Steve Trevor , gathering intel on the new Justice League recruits. She is noted to be "the most important member of the Justice League of America" by Steve Trevor. At the conclusion of the " Trinity War " storyline, she is revealed to in fact be betraying both teams; she hails from

348-740: A naturalised American citizen on 14 August 1942. With the United States fully involved in the Second World War, he attempted to enlist in the armed services but failed the physical exam due to recurrent malaria (contracted in New Guinea ), a heart murmur, various venereal diseases and latent pulmonary tuberculosis. Flynn was mocked by reporters and critics as a "draft dodger" because the studio refused to admit that their star, promoted for his physical beauty and athleticism, had been disqualified due to health problems. Flynn started

464-513: A pre-code 1930 drama of the same title about Royal Flying Corps fighter pilots in World War I and the devastating burden carried by officers who must send men out to die every morning. Flynn and co-stars Basil Rathbone and David Niven led a cast that was all male and predominantly British. Director Edmund Goulding 's biographer Matthew Kennedy wrote: "Everyone remembered a set filled with fraternal good cheer.... The filming of Dawn Patrol

580-546: A 15-year contract with Warner Bros. for $ 225,000 per film. His income totalled $ 214,000 that year, and $ 200,000 in 1948. After a cameo in Warner Bros.' Technicolor musical comedy It's a Great Feeling (1949), Flynn was borrowed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to appear in That Forsyte Woman (1949), which made $ 1.855 million in the U.S. and $ 1.842 million abroad which was the eleventh-biggest hit of

696-605: A copy was discovered in the basement of the surrogate court of New York City. Two of seven cans of the movie had deteriorated beyond hope, but five survived and were sent to the George Eastman House film archive for restoration. Flynn wrote and co-produced his next film, the low-budget Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951), directed by Marshall and shot in France. (Flynn wrote articles, novels and scripts but never had

812-636: A dashing nobleman that was cursed to become a gargoyle at night. His co-stars were leading lady Sandra Stanyon and child actor Bobby Milestone. The movie ends with Stanyon's character crying over the body of the gargoyle, her tears being the "magic potion" that frees Silver Blade from the curse and revives him. Forty-seven years later, in 1987, Jonathan Lord is a Hollywood recluse living in his mansion named Shangri-la. Lord and Sandra Stanyon had married, but sometime after 1950 their relationship soured and he committed adultery, causing her to divorce him. Bobby Milestone could not find work as an adult actor, so he became

928-699: A different kind of role, and so when ill health made Leslie Howard drop out of the screen adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' inspirational novel, Flynn got the lead role in Green Light (1937), playing a doctor searching for a cure for Rocky Mountain spotted fever . The studio then put him back into another swashbuckler, replacing Patric Knowles as Miles Hendon in The Prince and the Pauper (1937). He appeared opposite Kay Francis in Another Dawn (1937),

1044-550: A guest bedroom for surreptitious viewing. Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood toured the house as a prospective buyer in the 1970s and reported, "Errol had two-way mirrors... speaker systems in the ladies' room. Not for security. Just that he was an A-1 voyeur." In March 1955, the popular Hollywood gossip magazine Confidential ran a salacious article titled "The Greatest Show in Town... Errol Flynn and His Two-Way Mirror!" In her 1966 biography, actress Hedy Lamarr wrote, "Many of

1160-531: A light-hearted mystery, Footsteps in the Dark (1941). Los Angeles Times ' Edwin Schallert wrote: "Errol Flynn becomes a modern for a change in a whodunit film and the excursion proves eminently worth-while... an exceptionally clever and amusing exhibit ..." The film was not a big success; far more popular was the military drama Dive Bomber (1941), his last film with Curtiz. In later years, Footsteps in

1276-465: A long life?' Errol was his usually apparently unconcerned self: 'I'm only interested in this half,' he told her. 'I don't care for the future. ' " Flynn collapsed on set on 15 July 1942, while filming a boxing scene with Ward Bond. Filming was shut down while he recovered; he returned a week later. In his autobiography, My Wicked, Wicked Ways , Flynn describes the episode as a mild heart attack. In September 1942, Warners announced that Flynn had signed

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1392-691: A major player in Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again as part of Batman's resistance. He was taken prisoner by Lex Luthor and made to live in one of his own petri dishes for a period of months until his rescue by Catgirl . in Dark Knight III , He was then instrumental in the liberation of Kandor until killed by their leader, Baal. In the Tangent Comics imprint, the Atom is " Arthur Harrison Thompson ",

1508-422: A melodrama set in a mythical British desert colony. Warners then gave Flynn his first starring role in a modern comedy, The Perfect Specimen (1937), with Joan Blondell , under the direction of Curtiz. Meanwhile, Flynn published his first book, Beam Ends (1937), an autobiographical account of his experiences sailing around Australia as a youth. He also travelled to Spain, in 1937, as a war correspondent during

1624-593: A member of the Black Lantern Corps alongside several other fallen Suicide Squad members. Following his reanimation, Adam and the other Black Lanterns travel to Belle Reve and attack Bane and Black Alice . Adam is apparently destroyed by the Manhunter 's self-destruct mechanism, unleashing an explosion of Green Lantern energy that eradicates the Black Lanterns. In DC Rebirth , Adam Cray

1740-478: A new contract with the studio for four films a year, one of which he would also produce. In Edge of Darkness (1943), set in Nazi-occupied Norway, Flynn played a Norwegian resistance fighter, a role originally intended for Edward G. Robinson . Director Lewis Milestone later recalled, "Flynn kept underrating himself. If you wanted to embarrass him, all you had to do was to tell him how great he

1856-530: A new long-term relationship with a director when he teamed with Raoul Walsh in They Died with Their Boots On (1942), a biopic of George Armstrong Custer . De Havilland was his co-star in this, the last of eight films they made together. The movie grossed $ 2.55 million in the U.S. alone, making it Warner Bros.' second-biggest hit of 1942. Flynn's first World War II film was Desperate Journey (1942), directed by Walsh, in which he played an Australian for

1972-473: A performer and his contempt for studio operation". Despite the troubles behind the scenes, the film was a huge success, making a profit of just under $ 1 million. Flynn's next film had been planned since 1936: another swashbuckler taken from a Sabatini novel, The Sea Hawk (1940), but only the title was used. A reviewer observed in Time 19 August 1940, " The Sea Hawk (Warner) is 1940's lustiest assault on

2088-586: A private screening of Elizabeth and Essex , an astounded Davis had exclaimed, "Damn it! The man could act!" Warners put Flynn in another Western, Virginia City (1940), set near the end of the Civil War. Flynn played Union officer Kerry Bradford. In an article for TCM, Jeremy Arnold wrote: "Ironically, the Randolph Scott role [as Captain Vance Irby, commandant of the prison camp where Bradford

2204-637: A professional actor for seven months. He performed at the 1934 Malvern Festival and in Glasgow , and briefly in London's West End. In 1934, Flynn was dismissed from Northampton Rep. after he threw a female stage manager down a stairwell. He returned to London. Asher cast him as the lead in Murder at Monte Carlo , a " quota quickie " made by Warner Brothers at their Teddington Studios in Middlesex. The movie

2320-458: A quick learner". The success of The Adventures of Robin Hood did little to convince the studio that their prize swashbuckler should be allowed to do other things, but Warners allowed Flynn to try a screwball comedy , Four's a Crowd (1938). Despite the presence of de Havilland and the direction of Curtiz, it was not a success. The Sisters (1938), a drama showing the lives of three sisters in

2436-463: A reappearance and it is discovered that neither the falcon spirit nor Executioner can be killed. The falcon takes control of Lord and returns his magic powers to have another confrontation with the Executioner. Everyone now free from the false reality, Milestone realizes a giant movie set on Catalina island is actually something more. Lord's friends, as well as enemy Vincent Vermillion, converges on

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2552-689: A role in Lolita , but nothing came of it. Flynn went to Cuba in late 1958 to film the self-produced B film Cuban Rebel Girls , where he met Fidel Castro and was an enthusiastic supporter of the Cuban Revolution . He wrote a series of newspaper and magazine articles for the New York Journal American and other publications documenting his time in Cuba with Castro. Flynn was the only journalist who happened to be with Castro

2668-679: A subject of radiation testing on human beings. The first hero in the Tangent timeline, he inadvertently caused the Cuban Missile Crisis to escalate into a limited nuclear exchange that obliterated Florida and Cuba in 1962, unknown to his fellow Americans. Thompson was succeeded by his son, who was killed by the Tangent Comics version of the Fatal Five , and a grandson named Adam, who, in Tangent: Superman's Reign ,

2784-475: A swashbuckler in Italy, Crossed Swords (1954). This inspired him to produce a similar movie in that country, The Story of William Tell (1953), directed by Jack Cardiff with himself in the title role. The movie fell apart during production, was never finished, and ruined Flynn financially. Desperate for money, he accepted an offer from Herbert Wilcox to support Anna Neagle in a British musical, Lilacs in

2900-516: A thief and killer. One night after killing two cops, they are cornered on the roof of S.T.A.R. Labs during a storm. Lightning hits a satellite, electrocuting Johnny and granting him speed powers. Rhonda falls inside the building and lands near Ray Palmer's Atomico work, gaining size- and density-changing powers. During the final battle with the Crime Syndicate, Atomica reduces her size and is killed when Lex Luthor steps on her. Following

3016-411: A time in the 1940s, narcotics abuse. He was addicted to alcohol, tobacco, drugs and sex. He was linked romantically with Lupe Vélez , Marlene Dietrich and Dolores del Río , among many others. Carole Lombard is said to have resisted his advances but invited him to her extravagant parties. He was a regular attendee of William Randolph Hearst 's equally lavish affairs at Hearst Castle , though he

3132-567: A war film set during the Burma Campaign . Although popular, it was withdrawn in Britain after protests that the role played by British troops was not given sufficient credit. A Western, San Antonio (1945), was also very popular, grossing $ 3.553 million in the U.S. and was Warner Bros.' third-biggest hit of the year. Flynn tried comedy again with Never Say Goodbye (1946), a comedy of remarriage opposite Eleanor Parker , but it

3248-464: Is a classic, echoing the battle on the beach in Captain Blood where Flynn also kills Rathbone's character after a long demonstration of fine swordplay, in that case choreographed by Ralph Faulkner . According to Faulkner's student, Tex Allen, "Faulkner had good material to work with. Veteran Basil Rathbone was a good fencer already, and Flynn, though new to the school of fence, was athletic and

3364-610: Is a name shared by five superheroes appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics . The original Golden Age Atom, Al Pratt , was created by writer Bill O'Connor and artist Ben Flinton and first appeared in All-American Publications ' All-American Comics #19 (October 1940). The second Atom was the Silver Age Atom, Ray Palmer , who first appeared in 1961. The third Atom, Adam Cray,

3480-719: Is being held captive by Superman. It is suggested in the Tangent series that the Atom's name was at least in part chosen because of the abbreviation of his full name "Arthur Harrison Thompson" on his barracks door to simply "A. Thom." Also in the Tangent series, the Atom's presence as America's first superhero during the 1960s has led to a huge cultural impact, and in this world many significant points in pop culture have been effected by his presence; for instance The Beatles choose to be called "The Atomiks", further more TV shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies became The Superman Hillbillies , The Dick Van Dyke Show became The Dick Van Hero Show and Get Smart became Get Powers . In

3596-406: Is impaled through the chest with a screw by Blacksnake, a Micro Squad member who believes him to be Palmer. After the unanticipated murder of Cray, Palmer reveals himself and defeats Cray's murderer. The ruse ended, Palmer explains himself to the Justice League, who had been searching for him after hearing rumors of a new Atom. During the events of Blackest Night , Adam's corpse is reanimated as

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3712-482: Is joined by his spirit son Adruu, then accidentally by everyone else. The higher realm is believed to the Akashic Record, an astral plane where all thoughts and dreams are made manifest. Milestone creates a dream-scape of Hollywood, and everyone is witness to the spirits' never-ending battle. Vincent Vermillion has a negative reaction to the spirits, and it is revealed he is meant to be the new mortal vessel for

3828-580: Is saved by Lord. Realizing Lord has supernatural powers, he intends to keep an eye on Lord to uncover his secrets. Later, a séance is held in a haunted home led by a mysterious Native-American, Blackfeather, who had also been searching for the magical Maltese Falcon. The ghost haunting the residence is the spirit of actor Brian Vane, who played a television super hero in the 1950s called the Winged Avenger. Vane suffered through career and personal problems before dying under mysterious circumstances, making

3944-450: Is the most prominent theme. Jonathan Lord gains the power to transform into his movie roles, effectively "acting" them in the real world. The false reality close to the end of the series has the characters question what is real and what is an illusion. Much of the text-pieces and back-matter in the comics go into philosophy and meta-physics, with the most common idea being that there might be other planes of reality. This finally comes true when

4060-441: Is the reincarnation of his father, and warns him that the falcon spirit is itself not a benevolent spirit. Meanwhile, Sandra Stanyon comes to terms with knowing her ex-husband is young again, Milestone reads books on the supernatural and metaphysics in order to understand everything that is happening, and the ghost of Brian Vane joins the group to assist. The Executioner destroys the falcon, but working together Lord and Adruu destroy

4176-481: Is the son of Senator Cray and Ryan Choi's roommate at Ivy University. Senator Cray also attended Ivy and expected Adam to attend Ivy as well. He first meets Ryan when he walks into their dorm with heavy luggage and kindly introduces himself. Adam teaches Ryan how to play rugby and video games. Ryan Choi , as described by DC solicitations, is "a young hotshot professor who's filling the extra spot on Ivy University's teaching staff. .. and who inadvertently ends up filling

4292-669: The Justice League , the Suicide Squad , and the Justice Legion Alpha . The original Atom, Al Pratt , first appeared in All-American Comics #19 (October 1940). He initially had no superpowers; instead, he was a diminutive college student and later a physicist who was depicted as a tough guy, a symbol of all the short kids who could still make a difference. Pratt was a founding member of

4408-633: The Justice Society of America , later gaining limited super-strength, and an energy charged 'atomic punch'. He died in the charge against Extant during the Zero Hour . The Atom introduced during the Silver Age of comic books in Showcase #34 (1961) is physicist and university professor Raymond Palmer, Ph.D. (He was named for real-life science fiction writer Raymond A. Palmer , who

4524-530: The Morobe Goldfield . He spent the next five years oscillating between living in New Guinea and Sydney. In January 1931, Flynn became engaged to Naomi Campbell-Dibbs, the youngest daughter of Robert and Emily Hamlyn (Brown) Campbell-Dibbs of Temora and Bowral , New South Wales . They did not marry. Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel was making a film about the mutiny on the Bounty , In

4640-555: The Spanish Civil War , in which he sympathised with the Republicans . Flynn followed this with his most famous movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), playing the title role, opposite de Havilland's Marian . This movie was a global success. It was the 6th-top movie grosser of 1938. It was also the studio's first large-budget colour film using the three-strip Technicolor process. The budget for Robin Hood

4756-519: The "set". The movie set is actually Atlantis, returned to existence by the Executioner and falcon's magic. Artificial life-forms that guard Atlantis mortally wound Lord while using the gargoyle persona, while the Executioner and falcon spirit clash and disappear. The others arrive and Adruu learns the history of Atlantis and the true nature of the spirits: Atlantis' Queen Veega tries to perfect herself and her society by discarding all negative aspects of her soul. This doomed Atlantis, however, and resulted in

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4872-568: The Dark co-star Ralph Bellamy recalled Flynn at this time as "a darling. Couldn't or wouldn't take himself seriously. And he drank like there was no tomorrow. Had a bum ticker from the malaria he'd picked up in Australia. Also, a spot of TB. Tried to enlist but flunked his medical, so he drank some more. Knew he wouldn't live into old age. He really had a ball in Footsteps in the Dark . He was so glad to be out of swashbucklers". Flynn became

4988-466: The Executioner is a malevolent spirit, and the falcon has gifted Lord with powers to extinguish it. Blackfeather, who possesses powers similar to Lord by changing into animals, reveals that the falcon is not telling the entire truth. Four hundred years ago Blackfeather was named Adruu. Adruu's father was chosen by the falcon spirit to be its champion then, but Adruu killed his father to take the supernatural powers for himself. Adruu realizes that Jonathan Lord

5104-405: The Executioner. Stanyon magically regains her youth to match Lord, and the two live happily ever after in what is revealed to be a movie. The characters from the comic are revealed to be actors with different names and identities, and the preceding story was all fictitious. But cracks begin to show in this reality, with Milestone being the most aware from his knowledge of metaphysics. The falcon makes

5220-722: The London stage". His first appearance was a small role in The Case of the Curious Bride (1935). Flynn had two scenes, one as a corpse and one in flashback. His next part was slightly bigger, in Don't Bet on Blondes (1935), a B-picture screwball comedy . Warner Bros. was preparing a big-budget swashbuckler, Captain Blood (1935), based on the 1922 novel by Rafael Sabatini and directed by Michael Curtiz . The studio originally intended to cast Robert Donat , but he turned down

5336-757: The Spring (1954). Also shot in Britain was The Dark Avenger (1955), for Allied Artists, in which Flynn played Edward, the Black Prince . Wilcox used him with Neagle again in King's Rhapsody (1955), but it was not a success, ending plans for further Wilcox-Flynn collaborations. In 1956 he presented and sometimes performed in the British-filmed television anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre . Flynn received an offer to make his first Hollywood film in five years: Istanbul (1957), for Universal, which

5452-468: The U.S. plus $ 2.452 million abroad, on a budget of $ 2.056 million) while making it MGM's fifth-biggest movie of the year by box office and eleventh biggest overall for Hollywood. It was shot partly in India. On his way home, he shot some scenes for a film he produced, Hello God (1951), directed by William Marshall; it was never released. For many years, this was considered a lost film, but in 2013,

5568-440: The U.S., making it Warner Brothers' second-biggest hit of 1940. At the zenith of his career, Flynn was voted the fourteenth most popular star in the U.S. and the seventh most popular in Britain according to Motion Picture Daily . According to Variety , he was the fourth-biggest star in the U.S. and the fourth-biggest box-office attraction overseas as well. Flynn consistently ranked among Warner Bros.'s top stars. In 1937, he

5684-504: The Wake of the Bounty (1933), a combination of dramatic re-enactments of the mutiny and a documentary on present-day Pitcairn Island . Chauvel was looking for someone to play the role of Fletcher Christian . There are different stories about the way Flynn was cast. According to one, Chauvel saw his picture in an article about a yacht wreck involving Flynn. The most popular account is that he

5800-612: The accusation. One such group, the American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn—ABCDEF—accumulated a substantial membership that included William F. Buckley Jr. The trial took place in late January and early February 1943. Flynn's attorney, Jerry Giesler , impugned the accusers' character and morals and accused them of numerous indiscretions, including affairs with married men and, in Satterlee's case, an abortion (which

5916-407: The added benefit of effectively regaining his youth by portraying Silver Blade. Jonathan Lord returns to show business pretending to be his own son, Jonathan Lord Jr. He lands the role of Silver Blade in a new science-fiction update/remake while still disliking the project. The producer for the film is one Vincent Vermillion who knows Lord and Milestone well; Vermillion was another child on the set of

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6032-619: The age of nine, did not yet possess that magic for extracting money from the public which so distinguished his career as an actor. Our cause gained no apparent advantage from his presence in my entourage; we gained only third place in a field of seven." From 1923 to 1925, Flynn attended the South West London College, a private boarding school in Barnes , London. In 1926, he returned to Australia to attend Sydney Church of England Grammar School (known as "Shore"), where he

6148-541: The alternate universe of Earth-3 , where she is a member of the Crime Syndicate operating under the name Atomica. She also reveals that by placing a sliver of Green Kryptonite in Superman's optic nerve, she caused him to accidentally kill Doctor Light , with the added effect of severely weakening and almost killing Superman over time. Atomica originally worked on Earth-3 with Jonathan Allen / Johnny Quick as

6264-637: The attention of the Cabal as the new Atom so that no one would notice Palmer assuming the identity of a fallen Micro Squad member. Adam Cray remained with the Suicide Squad briefly, serving as a secret weapon whose existence was unknown to others of the Squad. Cray saves Amanda Waller from a group of assassins. At one point, Cray approaches Deadshot about his role in Senator Cray's murder. Later, Cray

6380-665: The back window of a bus promoting Silverblade Returns for release on "10.13.06". Silverblade is referenced in the Young Justice episode "Image", with Jonathan Lord and his former co-star and lover, Sandra Stanyon appearing in the sitcom Hello, Megan! as the titular Megan's parents. They also both appeared in the Young Justice: Outsiders digital comic. Johnathan Lord is mentioned in DC Showcase: The Phantom Stranger as

6496-486: The bathrooms have peepholes or ceilings with squares of opaque glass through which you can't see out but someone can see in." He had a Schnauzer dog named Arno, which was specially trained to protect him. They went together to premieres, parties, restaurants and clubs until the dog's death in 1941. On 15 June 1938, during filming, Arno bit Bette Davis on the ankle in a scene where she struck Flynn. Atom (comics) (Ray, Cray, & Ryan) : (Pratt) : The Atom

6612-599: The best swashbuckling role he has had since Captain Blood. For Hungarian Director Michael Curtiz, who took Flynn from bit-player ranks to make Captain Blood and has made nine pictures with him since, it should prove a high point in their profitable relationship." It was not, but The Sea Hawk made a profit of $ 977,000 on that budget of $ 1.7 million. Another financial success was the Western Santa Fe Trail (1940), with de Havilland and Ronald Reagan and directed by Curtiz, which grossed $ 2,147,663 in

6728-530: The butler to a bitter Lord. The story opens with Milestone collecting Maltese Falcon replicas for a tree display in Shangri-la. The latest addition turns out to have magic properties when it comes to life. The falcon wraps Lord's old film reels around himself, transforming him into the Silver Blade he portrayed years ago. Lord can now transform into any of his movie roles and possess their powers, with

6844-418: The character a thinly-veiled stand-in for the story of Superman actor George Reeves. Vane's Winged Avenger costume is used as a means to summon Vane, but instead a hostile spirit known as the Executioner possesses the costume and kills everyone present in a fire except for Blackfeather. Lord and the Executioner clash on several occasions, and the falcon spirit partly explains what is happening. The falcon claims

6960-400: The characters reach the astral plane where all dreams and illusions can become real. A direct comparison is made between the astral plane and Hollywood, a place where dreams are made real on the screen. Wholeness : The central problem is revealed to be a spirit that divided itself into two, causing the two halves to battle for centuries without realizing they were not whole. Likewise, during

7076-521: The couple when they marry, and he offers Hoben his size-changing belt so that Hoben can protect Ivy Town after Ray returns to the Morlaidhans. Adam Cray would later steal this belt; Hoben never uses the costume or name of the Atom. Adam Cray , son of the murdered Senator Joseph Cray, first appeared as the Atom in the pages of Suicide Squad #44 by John Ostrander (August 1990). Cray was initially believed to be Ray Palmer in disguise by members of

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7192-520: The discipline to turn it into a full-time career. ) Flynn wound up suing Marshall over both movies. For Warners, he appeared in an adventure tale set in the Philippines, Mara Maru (1952). That studio released a documentary of a 1946 voyage he had taken on his yacht, Cruise of the Zaca (1952). In August 1951, he signed a one-picture deal to make a movie for Universal in exchange for a percentage of

7308-480: The double feature. It cost $ 1,700,000 and exhibits Errol Flynn and 3,000 other cinema actors performing every imaginable feat of spectacular derring-do, and lasts two hours and seven minutes... Produced by Warner's Hal Wallis with a splendour that would set parsimonious Queen Bess's teeth on edge, constructed of the most tried-and-true cinema materials available, The Sea Hawk is a handsome, shipshape picture. To Irish [ sic ] Cinemactor Errol Flynn, it gives

7424-432: The falcon spirit and Executioner warring with one another, not realizing they were yin and yang, two halves to the same soul. Stanyon cries over the gargoyle's body, accidentally recreating their scene at the end of The Silver Blade. This returns Lord to life, who witnesses that the spirits' war in a higher realm is still having cataclysmic results on theirs. Lord resolves to enter the other world through beams of light when he

7540-554: The false reality Jonathan Lord is split into his "old" and "young" personas, and only regains his powers when they are joined. Adruu likewise is split in the false reality and regains his supernatural powers when made whole. Recent references to the Silverblade story in the DC Universe include The All-New Atom #4, which features a movie theatre which is showing Silver Blade II , and 52 #22 which has an advertisement on

7656-409: The film embodies the type of imaginative family adventure tailor-made for the silver screen". In 1995, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry . Years later, in a 2005 interview, de Havilland described how, during the filming, she decided to tease Flynn, whose wife

7772-428: The final issue of 52 , a new Multiverse is revealed, originally consisting of 52 identical realities. Among the parallel realities shown is one designated "Earth-2". As a result of Mister Mind "eating" aspects of this reality, it takes on visual aspects similar to the pre-Crisis Earth-2, including the Atom among other Justice Society of America characters. The names of the characters and the team are not mentioned in

7888-475: The first time. It was another big hit. The role of Gentleman Jim Corbett in Walsh's Gentleman Jim (1942) was one of Flynn's favourites. Warner Bros. purchased the rights to make a film of Corbett's life from his widow, Vera, specifically for their handsome, athletic and charming leading man. The movie bears little resemblance to the boxer's life, but the story was a crowd-pleaser. Despite—or perhaps because of—its departure from reality, Gentleman Jim packed

8004-565: The former owner of a mansion before he allegedly gave it to Seth. He is also implied to have been murdered by him. Errol Flynn Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American actor who achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood . He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland , and reputation for his womanising and hedonistic personal life. His most notable roles include Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), which

8120-445: The innate equivalent powers within his own body. After the events of Identity Crisis , Ray shrank himself to microscopic size and disappeared. Finding him became a major theme of the Countdown year-long series and crossover event. Prior to Ray Palmer's trip to the Amazon Jungle , he learns his wife Jean Loring has had an affair with her colleague, Paul Hoben. Palmer and Loring got a divorce. Later, Palmer offers his blessing to

8236-405: The motion pictures and television industry in 1960. Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was born on 20 June 1909 at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Battery Point, Tasmania . His father, Theodore Thomson Flynn , was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of marine biology and zoology at the University of Tasmania and Queen's University of Belfast where he served as the Chair of Zoology. His father

8352-500: The name the Atom and joining the Justice Legion Alpha when he helped them defeat the Bizarro-Legion. This Atom's powers differ from his predecessors in that he doesn't shrink but breaks up into several smaller duplicates of himself divided amongst his mass. At atomic size, these duplicates can mimic elements such as gold and oxygen. Each of the versions of Atom have their own enemies: Frank Miller portrayed Ray Palmer as

8468-529: The night Batista fled the country, and Castro learned of his victory in the revolution. Many of these pieces were lost until 2009 when they were rediscovered in a collection at the University of Texas at Austin 's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History . He appeared in a short titled Cuban Story: The Truth About Fidel Castro Revolution (1959), his last-known work. Flynn developed a reputation for his womanising , hard-drinking, chain smoking and, for

8584-492: The old Atom's super-heroic shoes". This new Atom is based on a redesign by Grant Morrison . He debuted in the Brave New World one-shot, a preview of projects, and then appeared in the series The All-New Atom , written by Gail Simone . He is later murdered by Deathstroke and his Titans. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, a new, female Atom is introduced, Rhonda Piñeda ,

8700-455: The original The Silver Blade movie who served as Milestone's stunt double near the climax. The gargoyle threw Vermillion off the top of a castle, but the safety net broke and Vermillion suffered broken bones. Vermillion had been an excellent dancer and planned to become the next Fred Astaire in film, but instead is confined to crutches and blames the two for his ruined dream. Vermillion kidnaps Milestone and hires assassins to kill him, but Milestone

8816-582: The panel in which they appear, but the Atom is visually similar to the Al Pratt Atom. Based on comments by Grant Morrison , this alternate universe is not the pre-Crisis Earth-2. In Countdown #30, the Challengers from Beyond encountered Earth-15, a world where the sidekicks had taken their mentor's places. On this Earth, the Atom is Jessica Palmer , a genius who graduated from MIT at age eight. The Search for Ray Palmer - Red Son features

8932-410: The part, afraid that his chronic asthma would make it impossible for him to perform the strenuous role. Warners considered a number of other actors, including Leslie Howard and James Cagney , and also conducted screen tests of those they had under contract, like Flynn. The tests were impressive, and Warners finally cast Flynn in the lead, opposite 19-year-old Olivia de Havilland . The resulting film

9048-412: The profits: this was Against All Flags (1952), a popular swashbuckler. In 1952, he was seriously ill with hepatitis , resulting in liver damage. In England, he made another swashbuckler for Warners, The Master of Ballantrae (1953). After that, Warners ended their contract with him and their association that had lasted for 18 years and 35 films. Flynn relocated his career to Europe, starting with

9164-434: The reboot of the multiverse after Dark Nights: Death Metal , a new Earth 3 and Atomica are created. Atomica is the lover of speedster serial killer Jonathan Chambers / Johnny Quick and accompanies him on his high-speed murder spree across Central City. An unnamed scientist in the 853rd Century performed experiments in superstring theory that creates a singularity and whose radiation alters his physical make-up. When

9280-561: The sea originated. Both of his parents were Australian-born of Irish, English and Scottish descent. Despite Flynn's claims, the evidence indicates that he was not descended from any of the Bounty mutineers . Flynn received his early schooling in Hobart. Future World Correspondence Chess Champion Cecil Purdy was one of his classmates. He attended The Hutchins School , Hobart College , The Friends School and Albuera Street Primary School and

9396-403: The singularity threatened to expand and destroy his universe, he enters it in an attempt to save the universe but instead finds himself on an interdimensional bridge to another universe as his own is wiped out, unable to stop it. At the end of the bridge, he finds Superman Prime who came to help but was too late. Stranded, he searches this universe for remnants of the one he lost, in time taking

9512-435: The supernatural and metaphysics. Adruu/Blackfeather is happy to live with Jonathan Lord, the reincarnation of his father. Unlike the false "happy ending" earlier in the series, Sandra Stanyon does not regain youth to match Lord, but lord says that paradise, Shangri-la, is a state of mind, the two kiss and decide to stay together despite the apparent age difference. Reality : The nature of reality and its comparison to fiction

9628-467: The team. Cray had been recruited by Palmer (who faked his own death) to apprehend the Micro Squad, a group of villains that had been reduced in size. Palmer intended to use Cray to uncover a shadowy government cabal which was using Palmer to discover the secret identities of other costumed heroes (Palmer's own identity no longer being secret). While Palmer infiltrated the Micro Squad, Cray would attract

9744-552: The theatres. According to Variety , it was the third Errol Flynn movie to gross at least $ 2 million for Warner Bros. in 1942. Flynn eagerly undertook extensive boxing training for this film, working with Buster Wiles and Mushy Callahan . Callahan's remembrances were documented in Charles Higham's Errol Flynn: The Untold Story . "Errol tended to use his right fist. I had to teach him to use his left and to move very fast on his feet...Luckily, he had excellent footwork, he

9860-436: The two halves of Queen Veega's spirit. Lord and Adruu take a chance on throwing Vermillion into the spirits' fray, which dissipates them, heals Vermillion and allows him to fulfill his dream of being a dancer. Vermillion dances off into other existences. The others are returned to Earth, with Atlantis now gone from Catalina Island. The ghost of Brian Vane works with Milestone on writing a book about their accumulated knowledge on

9976-509: The war in "That's What You Jolly Well Get", the only musical number that was ever performed by Flynn on screen. In late 1942, two 17-year-old girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, separately accused Flynn of statutory rape at the Bel Air home of Flynn's friend Frederick McEvoy , and on board Flynn's yacht Sirocco , respectively. The scandal received immense press attention. Many of Flynn's fans founded organisations to publicly protest

10092-491: The year for MGM. He went on a three-month holiday then made two medium-budget Westerns for Warners, Montana (1950), which made $ 2.1 million and was Warner Bros.' fifth-biggest movie of the year, and Rocky Mountain (1950), which made $ 1.7 million in the U.S. and was Warner Bros.' ninth-biggest movie of the year. He returned to MGM for Kim (1950), one of Flynn's most popular and profitable movies from this period, grossing $ 5.348 million ($ 2.896 million in

10208-467: The years from 1904 to 1908, including a dramatic rendering of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, was more popular. Flynn played alcoholic sports reporter Frank Medlin, who sweeps Louise Elliott ( Bette Davis ) off her feet on a visit to Silver Bow, Montana. Their married life in San Francisco is difficult, and Frank sails to Singapore just hours before the catastrophe. The original ending of the film

10324-399: Was a Western with Walsh and Ann Sheridan , Silver River (1948). This was a hit, although its high cost meant it was not very profitable. Flynn drank so heavily on the set that he was effectively disabled after noon-hour, and a disgusted Walsh terminated their business relationship. Warners tried returning Flynn to swashbucklers and the result was Adventures of Don Juan (1948). The film

10440-505: Was a magnificent success for the studio and gave birth to two new Hollywood stars and an on-screen partnership that would encompass eight films over six years. The budget for Captain Blood was $ 1.242 million, and it made $ 1.357 million in the U.S. and $ 1.733 million overseas, meaning a huge profit for Warner Bros. Flynn had been selected to support Fredric March in Anthony Adverse (1936), but public response to Captain Blood

10556-461: Was a minor character present in Suicide Squad stories. The fourth Atom, Ryan Choi , debuted in a new Atom series in August 2006. Another Atom from the 853rd Century first appeared as part of Justice Legion Alpha in August 1999. The Atom has been the star of multiple solo series, and four of the five have appeared as members of various superhero teams, such as the Justice Society of America ,

10672-503: Was a prisoner of war] was originally conceived for Flynn.... In fact, Virginia City was plagued with script, production and personnel problems all along. Shooting began without a finished script, angering Flynn, who complained unsuccessfully to the studio about it. Flynn disliked the temperamental Curtiz and tried to have him removed from the film. Curtiz didn't like Flynn (or co-star Miriam Hopkins) either. Humphrey Bogart apparently didn't care for Flynn or Randolph Scott. Making matters worse

10788-624: Was a war film set in Canada. He then made a film for his own production company, Thomson Productions, where he had a say in the choice of vehicle, director and cast, plus a portion of the profits. Uncertain Glory (1944), a war-time drama set in France with Flynn as a criminal who redeems himself, was not a success, earning only a modest gross of $ 1.5 million. Thomson Productions made no more movies. Still, Flynn earned $ 175,000 in 1943. With Walsh he made Objective, Burma! in 1944, released in 1945,

10904-457: Was an unusual experience for everyone connected with it, and dissipated for all time the legend that Britishers are lacking in a sense of humor.... The picture was made to the accompaniment of more ribbing than Hollywood has ever witnessed. The setting for all this horseplay was the beautiful English manners of the cutterups. The expressions of polite and pained shock on the faces of Niven, Flynn, Rathbone et al., when (women) visitors were embarrassed

11020-568: Was discovered by cast member John Warwick . The film was not a strong success at the box office, but Flynn was the lead role, leading him to travel to Britain in late 1933 to pursue a career in acting. Flynn got work as an extra in a film, I Adore You (1933), produced by Irving Asher for Warner Bros. He soon secured a job with the Northampton Repertory Company at the town's Royal Theatre (now part of Royal & Derngate ), where he worked and received his training as

11136-445: Was dodgy, [and] he could duck faster than anybody I saw. And by the time I was through with him, he'd jab, jab, jab with his left like a veteran". Flynn took the role seriously and was rarely doubled during the boxing sequences. In The Two Lives of Errol Flynn by Michael Freedland , Alexis Smith told of taking the star aside: "'It's so silly, working all day and then playing all night and dissipating yourself. Don't you want to live

11252-445: Was expelled from each one. He made one of his first appearances as a performer in 1918, aged nine when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queen carnival . In her memoirs, Lyons recalled Flynn as "a dashing figure—a handsome boy of nine with a fearless, somewhat haughty expression, already showing that sang-froid for which he was later to become famous throughout the civilised world". She further noted: "Unfortunately, Errol, at

11368-404: Was himself quite short.) After stumbling onto a mass of white dwarf star matter that had fallen to Earth, he fashioned a lens which allowed him to shrink down to subatomic size. Originally, his size and molecular density abilities derived from the white dwarf star material of his costume, controlled by mechanisms in his belt, and later by controls in the palms of his gloves. Much later, he gained

11484-554: Was illegal at the time). He noted that the two girls, who said they did not know each other, filed their complaints within days of each other, although the episodes allegedly took place more than a year apart. He implied that the girls had cooperated with prosecutors in hopes of avoiding prosecution themselves. Flynn was acquitted, but the trial's widespread coverage and lurid overtones permanently damaged his carefully cultivated screen image as an idealised romantic leading player. Northern Pursuit (1943), also with Walsh as director,

11600-515: Was in a scene he'd just finished playing: He'd blush like a young girl and muttering 'I'm no actor' would go away somewhere and sit down". With a box office gross of $ 2.3 million in the U.S., it was Warner Bros.'s eighth-biggest movie of the year. In Warners' all-star musical comedy fund-raiser for the Stage Door Canteen , Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), Flynn sings and dances as a cockney seaman boasting to his pub mates of how he's won

11716-762: Was later named by the American Film Institute as the 18th-greatest hero in American film history , the lead role in Captain Blood (1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and the hero in a number of Westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail , Virginia City (both 1940) and San Antonio (1945). Flynn was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to

11832-454: Was not a success, grossing $ 1.77 million in the U.S. In 1946, Flynn published an adventure novel, Showdown , and earned a reported $ 184,000 (equivalent to $ 2,870,000 in 2023). Cry Wolf (1947) was a thriller with Flynn in a seemingly more villainous role. It was a moderate success at the box office. He was in a melodrama, Escape Me Never (1947), filmed in early 1946 but not released until late 1947, which lost money. More popular

11948-709: Was not well received. He made a thriller shot in Cuba, The Big Boodle (1957), then had his best role in a long time in the blockbuster Ernest Hemingway adaptation The Sun Also Rises (1957) for producer Darryl F. Zanuck , which made $ 3 million in the U.S. Flynn's performance in the latter was well received and led to a series of roles where he played to type, assaying drunks. Warner Bros. cast him as John Barrymore in Too Much, Too Soon (1958), and Zanuck used him again in The Roots of Heaven which made $ 3 million (1958). He met with Stanley Kubrick to discuss

12064-580: Was not widely seen (it is a lost film ), but Asher was enthusiastic about Flynn's performance and cabled Warner Bros in Hollywood, recommending him for a contract. Executives agreed, and Flynn was sent to Los Angeles. On the ship from London, Flynn met (and eventually married) Lili Damita , an actress five years his senior whose contacts proved invaluable when Flynn arrived in Los Angeles. Warner Bros. publicity described him as an "Irish leading man of

12180-438: Was on the set and watching closely. De Havilland said, "And so we had one kissing scene, which I looked forward to with great delight. I remember I blew every take, at least six in a row, maybe seven, maybe eight, and we had to kiss all over again. And Errol Flynn got really rather uncomfortable, and he had, if I may say so, a little trouble with his tights." The final duel between Robin and Sir Guy of Gisbourne ( Basil Rathbone )

12296-526: Was once asked to leave after becoming excessively intoxicated. The expression " in like Flynn " is said to have been coined to refer to the supreme ease with which he reputedly seduced women, but its origin is disputed. Flynn was reportedly fond of the expression and later claimed that he wanted to call his memoir In Like Me . The publisher insisted on a more lurid title, My Wicked, Wicked Ways . ) Flynn had various mirrors and hiding places constructed inside his mansion, including an overhead trapdoor above

12412-521: Was quarrelsome; Davis allegedly slapped him across the face far harder than necessary during one scene. Flynn attributed her anger to unrequited romantic interest, but according to others, Davis resented sharing equal billing with a man she considered incapable of playing any role beyond a dashing adventurer. "He himself openly said, 'I don't know really anything about acting, ' " she told an interviewer, "and I admire his honesty because he's absolutely right." Years later, however, de Havilland said that during

12528-520: Was so enthusiastic that Warners instead reunited him with de Havilland and Curtiz in another adventure tale, this time set during the Crimean War , The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936). The film was given a slightly larger budget than Captain Blood , at $ 1.33 million, and it had a much higher box-office gross, earning $ 1.454 million in the U.S. and $ 1.928 million overseas, making it Warner Bros.' No. 1 hit of 1936. Flynn asked for

12644-696: Was the best part of the nonsense." In 1939, Flynn and de Havilland teamed up with Curtiz for Dodge City (1939), the first Western for both of them, set after the U.S. Civil War . Flynn was worried that audiences would not accept him in Westerns, but the film was Warner's most popular film of 1939, and he went on to make a number of movies in that genre. Flynn was reunited with Davis, Curtiz and de Havilland in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), playing Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex . Flynn's relationship with Davis during filming

12760-452: Was the classmate of a future Australian prime minister, John Gorton . His formal education ended with his expulsion from Shore for theft, although he later claimed it was for a sexual encounter with the school's laundress. After being dismissed from a job as a junior clerk with a Sydney shipping company for pilfering petty cash, he went to Papua New Guinea at the age of eighteen, seeking his fortune in tobacco planting and gold mining in

12876-472: Was the first biology professor in Tasmania . His mother was born Lily Mary Young, but shortly after marrying Theodore at St John's Church of England, Birchgrove , Sydney , on 23 January 1909, she changed her first name to Marelle. Flynn had a younger sister Nora Rosemary Flynn (1919-1981). Flynn described his mother's family as "seafaring folk" and this appears to be where his lifelong interest in boats and

12992-424: Was the highest ever for a Warner Bros. production up to that point—$ 2.47 million—but it more than made back its costs and turned a huge profit as it grossed $ 2.343 million in the U.S. and $ 2.495 million overseas. It also received lavish praise from critics and became a world favourite; in 2019, Rotten Tomatoes summarised the critical consensus: "Errol Flynn thrills as the legendary title character, and

13108-473: Was the same as the book: Louise married a character named William Benson, but preview audiences disliked the ending, and a new one was filmed in which Frank comes to Silver Bow to find her, and they reconcile. Apparently, audiences wanted Errol Flynn to "get the girl" or vice versa. (Bette Davis preferred the original ending.) Flynn had a powerful dramatic role in The Dawn Patrol (1938), a remake of

13224-438: Was the steady rain that fell for two of the three weeks of location shooting near Flagstaff, Arizona. Flynn detested rain and was physically unwell for quite some time because of it. As Peter Valenti has written, "Errol's frustration at the role can be easily understood: he changed from antagonist to protagonist, from Southern to Northern officer, almost as the film was being shot. [This] intensified Errol's feelings of inadequacy as

13340-429: Was the studio's No. 1 star, ahead of Paul Muni and Bette Davis . In 1938, he was No. 3, just behind Davis and Muni. In 1939, he was No. 3 again, this time behind Davis and James Cagney . In 1940 and 1941, he was Warner Bros.'s No. 1 top box-office draw. In 1942, he was No. 2, behind Cagney. In 1943, he was No. 2, behind Humphrey Bogart . Warners allowed Flynn a change of pace from a long string of period pieces in

13456-525: Was very successful, becoming Warner Bros.' 4th-biggest hit of the year. As with some other Flynn films, it was more popular in Europe than the States, grossing $ 3.1 million there and $ 2.1 million in the U.S., with total earnings of $ 4.7 million on an approximate budget of $ 3.25 million. However, from this point on, Warner Bros. reduced the budgets of Flynn's films. In November 1947, Flynn signed

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