Popularity

Errol Flynn's wild oat (TIME, Oct. 26) may flower into a greater popularity than he has ever known. While Los Angeles justice pondered the case of Cinemactor Flynn (charged with statutory rape), the verdict of the cinemasses was warm, spontaneous and ribald. An audience that crowded San Francisco's Fox Theater to see Flynn's Desperate Journey had the time of its life.

Fans cheered and applauded Flynn's first appearance on the screen. Later, when he murmured dreamily of the Girl Back Home, they gave the wolf cry--a long-drawn woooo-woooo-ooo! When Flynn offered a fellow pilot "a few good telephone numbers," the house broke into a dionysiad of whistles, wolf calls, boos, belly laughter. This was not only true of San Francisco: at the end of many a showing of Desperate Journey, cinemaudiences have endorsed Cinemactor Flynn with loud & long applause. Probably unnecessary, in fact, is Warner Bros.' already famed deletion--from the Desperate Journey trailer--of one line about Flynn and his RAFish companions: "They know but one command: Attack."

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