"By instinct I’m an adventurer; by choice I’d like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I’m an actor."
– Errol Flynn
That is the hotel that was once owned by Errol Flynn in Jamaica.
Titchfield Hotel, Port Antonio, Jamaica por The Caribbean Photo Archive Por Flickr: THE TITCHFIELD HOTEL The growth of this hotel in Portland is directly linked to the banana trade which expanded in the late 1800s to make Portland the second most important town in Jamaica. By 1902 Capt. Lorenzo Dow Baker's Boston Fruit Company (which later became the United Fruit Company) controlled the island's entire banana trade and Baker began to use his steamships to carry tourists as well as bananas. Baker built the Titchfield Hotel in the early 1900s. In 1905 the hotel boasted 600 feet of piazza and 400 rooms. It was said that no hotel this side of the Atlantic is provided with more of those conveniences that minister so largely to the pleasure of travellers. The hotel and the parish suffered greatly with the decline in the banana industry in the 1930s. One of its great claims to fame is that it was once owned by famous Hollywood swashbuckler Errol Flynn who died before he could put any of his plans to develop the hotel into place. In the late 1960s the hotel was destroyed by fire. Today only the ruins of this great landmark still stand
To Errol Flynn.
The man who changed forever the face of adventure. The minute he stepped into his “Captain Blood”, audiences reacted like a thunderstorm. Not only for his looks, but for his charm, his audacity, his nobleness, his slyness and his great talent. I don’t think I have ever seen anything so moving on screen than his pairings with Olivia de Havilland and this particular line from “They Died with Their Boots On” is my all-time favorite:
George Armstrong Custer: Walking through life with you, ma'am, has been a very gracious thing.
No matter how much time passes, no matter how many movies we watch, there are memories and people that we carry along the way. Forever.