Adventures of Robin Hood

MOVIE 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.

DVD FEATURES:

• Blu-ray Disc Features:
  Full Frame - 1.33
  Full Frame - 1.37
  
• Audio:
  Dolby Surround 2.0 - Spanish
  Mono - English, Spanish
  Mono 1.0 - French
  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Awards:

   

  Best Interior Decoration (b&w), Best Film Editing, Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Academy Awards Best Original Score

• Director:

   

  Michael Curtiz, William Keighley

• Star:

   

  Patric Knowles, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Una O'Connor, Olivia de Havilland

• Producer:

   

  Henry Blanke

• Screenwriter:

   

  Seton I. Miller, Norman Reilly Raine

• Composer:

   

  Erich Wolfgang Korngold

• Costume Designer:

   

  Milo Anderson

• Director of Photography:

   

  Sol Polito, Tony Gaudio

• Production Designer:

   

  Carl Jules Weyl

• Editor:

   

  Ralph Dawson

• Makeup:

   

  Perc Westmore

• Source Writer:

   

  Walter Scott

REVIEWS:

• "[A] Technicolor swashbuckler." — Sight and Sound
• "...A treat for the eye and ear....An action-packed romantic take on the old legend..." — Los Angeles Times
• "...Visually, screen reds were never redder nor greens greener, and this was the screen adventure for the era..." — USA Today
• "[O]ut of all the embodiments of derring-do played by Flynn, his nobelman-turned-defender-of-the-poor-and-oppressed is the most purely joyous." — Premiere
• "[T]he dialogue is delectable Hollywood fustian at is best; the period Technicolor glows like a jewel..." — Total Film

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