TLS signed “Errol,” four pages, 6 x 8.5, Hotel El Rancho, Gallup, New Mexico letterhead, June 18, 1950. A typically testy letter from Flynn to his business partner, William Marshall, in Paris. In part: “I understand … that you have agreed to absolve me from all financial responsibility by the putting up of tangible collateral, and to this I am agreeable. No other procedure will be satisfactory, for I have never at any time agreed to put up or be responsible for one penny for the making of this film. On the contrary, you have placed me in the invidious position of being responsible for large sums of money, which you have arranged to borrow by the use of my name…. You know, as well as I, that it was always agreed that any deal for the picture, ‘The Bargain,’ had to be submitted to my attorneys before any deal was made…. You were to supply the money—I was to make the picture. Your part has not been consummated…. I find myself, due to your not having kept to our bargain, in a dangerous and most invidious financial situation…. And what the hell is ‘full control?’ I was to make the picture, wasn’t I?… Are you contemplating playing the role of Fabian, perhaps? To this I would not be disagreeable—but please tell me if this is so…. I am not going to fool around with such double-talk nonsense any longer. Keep to your agreement with me. I personally am fed up and disgusted with trying to penetrate such obscure clouds of misunderstanding…. So … come on, Bill, let’s get cracking.” Flynn’s relationship with the recipient, William Marshall, began when the two costarred in Michael Curtiz's Santa Fe Trail (1950). Flynn and Marshall soon teamed up to form a production company, Silver Productions. After the release of a mere handful of films, none of which was successful, the partnership was dissolved amid a bitter legal battle. Staple holes, and slightly irregular ink flow to signature, otherwise fine condition. PSA/DNA Auction LOA and R&R COA.
