Have I been wrong all these years???
Bagster
Outstanding!
Summary: Flynn knew Fibbies had falsified 302 as well as withholding exculpatory evidence. Big crimes!
As someone else said: He’s “In like Flynn” (a crude reference to the Erroll Flynn rape trial—in which the swashbuckling actor was acquitted—and in which the alleged victim said the act in question took over an hour).
Have I been wrong all these years???
Bagster
In Like Flint (1967) is a film directed by Gordon Douglas, the sequel to the parody spy film Our Man Flint (1966).
Bagster
"Another possible figure who could plausibly have been the source of the phrase is the political organizer Edward J. Flynn. He was a campaign manager for the Democratic party during the 1930s and 40s and was well-known to be highly effective at arranging political successes.
Such Machiavellian organizers were known as bosses. Flynn, with some irony, called his autobiography 'You're the Boss', in a reference to the American voting public. Edward J. Flynn had not been associated with the phrase 'in like Flynn' prior to the efforts by etymologists to explain it though and no records from the 1940s make any such link.
It seems very much more likely that Errol Flynn is the Flynn in question and, although the phrase may have been used before he was at the peak of his celebrity, it became well-known by association with him."
Bagster