Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)

Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland, John MacKay

Flynn plays himself in his last film which is a semidocumenatary, that he also wrote and co-produced. Flynn who was impressed with Castro, shot this film during the revolution, which includes skirmishes in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, burning of sugar-cane fields, and a raid on a sugar mill. His current girl friend at the time sixteen-year-old Beverly Aadland leads those lovely mercenaries, the Cuban Rebel Girls. Some say the film is an unfitting epilogue to a great career, but one should look at as an ambitious home movie of Flynn’s fascination with the tropics, politics, and Castros revolution.

1959, B&W, 68 minutes