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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: October 5, 2010
- Originally Released: 1938
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Commentary by historian Rudy Behlmer
- Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1938:
- Vintage newsreel
- Musical short Freddie Rich and His Orchestra
- Classic cartoon Katnip Kollege
- Trailers of this plus 1938's Angels With Dirty Faces
- Errol Flynn trailer gallery
- Music-only audio track showcasing Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Oscar-winning score
- Dual Layer
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- English, French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland | |
| Performer: | Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles & Una O'Connor | |
| Directed by | Michael Curtiz & William Keighley | |
| Edited by | Ralph Dawson | |
| Screenwriting by | Norman Reilly Raine & Seton I. Miller | |
| Composition by | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | |
| Art Direction by | Carl Jules Weyl | |
| Produced by | Henry Blanke | |
| Director of Photography: | Sol Polito & Tony Gaudio |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1938 -
Best Film Editing
Academy Awards 1938 -
Best Interior Decoration (b&w)
Academy Awards 1938 -
Best Original Score: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Entertainment Reviews:
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The Adventures of Robin Hood has the fine sweep and action of the best silent days, and all the sound and splendor of the modern screen. One of the season's finest films.
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Maclean's Magazine
...A treat for the eye and ear....An action-packed romantic take on the old legend...
Los Angeles Times
[T]he dialogue is delectable Hollywood fustian at is best; the period Technicolor glows like a jewel...
Total Film
[A] Technicolor swashbuckler.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 10/10 --
A rousing and fun popcorn movie of the highest order.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Rating: A- --
One of the best swashbucklers ever.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It is cinematic pageantry at its best, a highly imaginative telling of folklore in all the hues of Technicolor.
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Variety
Product Description:
In Michael Curtiz's swashbuckling spectacle about the infamous outlaw and his band of merry men who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor," Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone) while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland).
Flynn joyously embraces the role widely considered the best of his bountiful array of swashbuckling legends. Delivering his lines and performing dashing acrobatics (he did most of his own stunts) with breezy élan, he darts across the intricate sets of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD as if there are rocket boosters secreted in his tights. It was one of the earliest films to use three-color Technicolor and, at the time, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had produced. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's outstanding score won an Oscar, as did the art direction and the editing.
Flynn joyously embraces the role widely considered the best of his bountiful array of swashbuckling legends. Delivering his lines and performing dashing acrobatics (he did most of his own stunts) with breezy élan, he darts across the intricate sets of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD as if there are rocket boosters secreted in his tights. It was one of the earliest films to use three-color Technicolor and, at the time, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had produced. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's outstanding score won an Oscar, as did the art direction and the editing.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Medieval
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Swashbuckler
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Classic Fight Scenes
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Epic
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Recommended
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Legends
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Essential Cinema
Production Notes:
- THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1995.
- One of the earliest films to use three-color Technicolor and, at the time, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had produced ($2 million).
- William Keighley started directing the film, but Curtiz finished the filming. According to Variety, Curtiz took the helm because Keighley became ill but, according to Halliwell, Curtiz became director because "it was felt that the action lacked impact."
- The film is based on, according to the credits, "ancient Robin Hood legends."
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- Sales Rank: 722
- UPC: 883929153473
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