The Golden Shanty

"The Golden Shanty"
	Goodyear Theatre episode
Episode no.	Season 3; Episode 5
Directed by	Arthur Hiller
Written by	Jameson Brewer
Based on	story by Edward Dyson
Produced by	Winston O'Keefe
Production code	Screen Gems
Original air date	9 November 1959
Guest appearance(s)
	Errol Flynn

The Golden Shandy is a 1959 episode of the TV series Goodyear Theatre.

It marked the last filmed performance of Errol Flynn and was broadcast after he died.[1]

Plot

Traveling medicine man Doc Boatwright goes through Nugget City. The female co-owner of a saloon throws a brick of the saloon at him. Boatwright realises the brick contains gold and tries to con her out of it.

Cast

Errol Flynn as Doc Boatwright
Patricia Barry as Adie Walker
Peter Hansen as Mike Walker
James McCallion as Hermise Schneider
Fred Sherman as Clyde Murrow
Juney Ellis as Henrietta

Production

The script was based on a short story by Australian writer Edward Dyson which was first published in 1889.[2] Dyson later turned it into a play.[3]

In August 1959 Hedda Hopper reported that Patricia Barry turned down the chance to appear in Line Up to go to New York to make the production. "She must have wanted a trip to New York," wrote Hopper.[4]

The production was shot in three days. Director Arthur Hiller said Flynn had a great deal of trouble remembering his lines.[5]

References

Flynn's Last Fling L.L. The Washington Post, Times Herald 8 Nov 1959: G3.
Graeme Davison, 'Dyson, Edward George (Ted) (1865–1931)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dyson-edward-george-ted-6073/text10397, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 7 November 2019.
"THE GOLDEN SHANTY". The Sydney Morning Herald (23, 601). New South Wales, Australia. 1 September 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 7 November 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
Looking at Hollywood: Timmy Everett Is First Cast in 'Exodus' Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune (31 Aug 1959: a6.
McNulty, Thomas (2015). Errol Flynn: The Life and Career. McFarland. p. 291. ISBN 9781476609720.

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[1] Flynn's Last Fling L.L. The Washington Post, Times Herald 8 Nov 1959: G3.

[2] Graeme Davison, 'Dyson, Edward George (Ted) (1865–1931)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dyson-edward-george-ted-6073/text10397, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 7 November 2019.

[3] "THE GOLDEN SHANTY". The Sydney Morning Herald (23, 601). New South Wales, Australia. 1 September 1913. p. 3. Retrieved 7 November 2019 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] Looking at Hollywood: Timmy Everett Is First Cast in 'Exodus' Hopper, Hedda. Chicago Daily Tribune (31 Aug 1959: a6.

[5] McNulty, Thomas (2015). Errol Flynn: The Life and Career. McFarland. p. 291. ISBN 9781476609720.