Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)

CUBAN REBEL GIRLS  (1959)  1/2 ¢
    D: Barry Mahon
    Errol Flynn, Beverly Aadland, John McKay,
    Jackie Jackler, Marie Edmund, Ben Ostrowsky
Errol Flynn's monumentally awful last movie, with Flynn playing himself as a Hemingway-style journalist and his underaged girlfriend, Beverly Aadland, cast as an American girl who joins the rebels fighting for Fidel. As an unfortunate note to go out on, this rivals Bela Lugosi in "Plan 9 From Outer Space", but where "Plan 9" is fun in a bad movie way, this one's more like just sad and ploddingly, painfully dull. Flynn, who was almost 50, looks heavy and tired. Aadland, who was just 16, affectionately calls him an ox. Flynn wrote the misguided script and died before the picture's release. "Captain Blood" and "Robin Hood" seem a million light years away.