When you imagine the classic leading man, names like Paul Newman, Cary Grant, or Dirk Bogarde Spring to mind. These guys were intense, clean cut and dependable. Their thrusting chins and fast paced dialogue powering plenty of two fisted detective tales and epics with casts of thousands. If there is a deep down manly essence that sums up classic era Hollywood, then it probably smells like Clark Gable. If you look really closely though, you’ll notice a dissenter in the ranks; Errol Flynn. This borderline Nazi sheep’s bollock-biter (Honestly!-prairie oysters, wiki it!) from Queensland had one crucial advantage over his fellows that eventually gave rise to the phrase ‘In like Flynn’. What could it be? What was John Wayne missing that let our Errol slip between the sheets of a thousand starlets? Answer: The ‘tache.
