Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood in the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing Technicolor adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard’s absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, “steal from the rich and give to the poor.” Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin’s loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas (click here for further information)
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Mr. Hood
come to the tables every one and stuff yourselves!!!!! food! glorious food! no veggies solamente here.
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Marginally better than the DVD
The Adventures of Robin Hood is my all time favourite movie, having first seen it about 1950, when I was just a kid. I already had the DVD, which was an excellent transfer.
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Robin Hood Blu Ray a disappointment
I own an HDTV set and a copy of the two disk edition of Robin Hood. It was such a well done project that when I saw a Blu Ray version was available I decided to buy it also to see…
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The first Technicolor masterpiece.
In the late 30’s, color film was expensive, and controversial. Many actors refused to be filmed in color, and some audience members found color film tasteless.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (Blu Ray)
The Adventures of Robin Hood [Blu-ray]
Warners needed this movie to work after spending huge amounts of cash to not only make the movie but to also justify using the…
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Rollicking Matinee Fare
I would have to say that “The Adventures of Robin Hood” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark” are probably the two greatest matinee movies of all-time.
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A Real Man
I love, love, love this movie and especially the lead character. Everything is perfect. Flawlessly beautiful setting, real characters, crisp acting.
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Flynn leaves Bruce Lee standing
This is the classic tale of Sherwood. There have been many Robin Hoods and this is the one that they show again and again on Saturday afternoon television and for good reason…
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Best movie of this type ever
This is the only filmed version of the Robin Hood saga that I know of that sticks to the traditional legend and does not offer a new slant on the story.
5.0 out of 5 stars
“Welcome to Sherwood, my lady!”
The two-disc edition of one of the best Technicolor costume adventures ever made is superb. If you want only the best Hollywood film productions for your permanent collection,…