Beam Ends is a 1937 semi-autobiographical novel by Australian actor Errol Flynn. Upon publication, reviews positioned the book variously as fiction and non-fiction. It was understood as "a graphic account of an adventurous and almost fatal trip that [Flynn] made in a small schooner from Australia to New Guinea." Another reviewer purported that it "deals at length on [Flynn's] Sydney days, and his subsequent voyage up the east coast of Australia." Beam Ends was Flynn's first novel, although he had written nonfiction for many years. An anonymous book reviewer in Smith's Weekly wrote: "Beam Ends" is sufficient proof that [Flynn] would have made a very good journalist.
Adaptations (1)
Beam Ends was adapted into a 2018 film.
In Like Flynn2018 · film · 106 min · dir. Russell Mulcahy · IMDb ↗A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to Papua in search of gold, along with his best friend Rex, a former Canadian smuggler; Dook, a handy English gentleman; and Charlie, a grumpy old sailor.
