'Cuban Rebel Girls' aka 'Assault of the Rebel Girls' is the last film that Errol Flynn ever made, he died a few months before it's December 1959 release. Also written by Flynn the married 50 year old actor appears in it beside his then 16 year old girlfriend Beverly Aadland, Aadland needless to say can't really act, that's not why she was on set in a country with less strict statuary rape laws. This pro Castro film was made with the cooperation of then insurgent forces in an actual war zone, this is before Castro came out as a communist. Done in a semi documentary style, Flynn appears as himself, for some reason on assignment from the Hurst Newspaper Syndicate to cover the fighting in Cuba. Aadland plays an American teen who comes to the island because her boyfriend is there fighting, it's not long before she too is sporting khaki's and working with a kind of women's auxiliary force. The movie was directed by Flynn's former personal pilot turned manager Barry Mahon whose last film credit is 'Nudes, Nudists, and Nudism Vol. 2' (1994). This movie is bad, but at times strangely fascinating in its shear improbability of existence. *1/2
Flynn and Aadland's story is told in the 2013 movie 'The Last of Robin Hood' where they are played by Kevin Kline and Dakota Fanning.
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