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  1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
Errol Flynn is eternally charming as Robin, defender of the poor, in this rousing family adventure that co-stars Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains.
The movie was directed by Michael Curtiz (taking over after William Keighley proved unable to make the action exciting), just a few years before he made Casablanca, and you can feel the man's undying love of cinema.
It's not an accurate depiction of medieval times, it's an over the top adventure in a fairy tale world in which men prance around in bright colored tights and hats, in which there is trouble and danger, but also a HERO nearby who is there to save and protect the good people of England.
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Robin Hood kills officers that are oppressing Saxons.
At night Robin sneaks in to see Marian and says that he is in love with her.
Robin blames Richard for leaving England to be held by outlaws like himself.
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 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) - Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The legends of Robin Hood and his merry men have been part of English culture since the first surviving ballads were written down in the mid-fifteenth century.
The Adventures of Robin Hood may be a textbook example of the reliability of proven formulas, but one can only wish that more movies had been as successful.
The Adventures of Robin Hood is one of those rare studio system movies that started out as a regular genre film and somehow surpassed itself, feeding off a creative energy that generated its own sweeping artistry.
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 The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
Any doubts I had about this movie were immediately dispelled when there's a commotion at the castle door during dinner and when they open it up, we see Robin Hood smacking guards upside the head with the carcas of the deer everyone made such a big to-do about killing.
John tries to have Robin Hood captured, but since there were only a hundred and fifty or so of his men in the castle and because Robin was a whole two feet away from them at the table, the odds weren't excatly in their favor and Robin escapes.
Robin and his group are presented as a carefree bunch that sit around in the forest having big feasts, occasionally going to archery matches and condcucting ambushes when they get bored and no one in this movie really feels like a person so much as an ideal.
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 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone - Three Movie Buffs ...
Robin Hood escaping from the castle early in the movie had my youngest son cheering.
When you think about it, Robin Hood was the first true superhero and 1938 was the perfect year for the most famous movie about him to be made.
Errol Flynn's Robin Hood combines the majesty and intrigue of the romantic past with the modern-day attitude of a comicbook hero.
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 Basil Rathbone: Master of Stage and Screen - The Adventures of Robin Hood
The script for "The Adventures of Robin Hood" was based on the traditional legends and ballads of Robin Hood and Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe.
It's not a remake of the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks movie "Robin Hood," although there is an emphasis on stunts similar to ones in the 1922 movie (e.g.
Robin Hood is a hero of Saxon resistance against the ruling Normans who misuse and abuse their power and who oppress the poor folk who farm the land.
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 The Adventures of Robin Hood - Rotten Tomatoes
One of the few great adventure movies that you can pretend you are treating the kids to when you are really treating yourself.
Movie pageantry at its best, done in the grand manner of silent spectacles, brimming over with the sort of primitive energy that drew people to the movies in the first place.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is noted as one of the greatest, most colorful costume dramas, swashbucklers, and adventure films in film history.
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 Adventures Of Robin Hood The Reel Image Features
The idea for this version of "Robin Hood" was first raised in 1935 when working on "Captain Blood", Dwight Franlin (costume and set consultant), sent a memo to studio head Jack L. Warner suggesting James Cagney for the lead.
Well I think most of us "Robin Hood" fans would agree with that, as it was released it is perfectly constructed, and I think it is in only the odd line of dialogue that the film can be faulted (or dated)....
The edited versions of Robin Hood that Derann released (and I was lucky to become involved with) were the best seller of the UA deal and just about the most popular film they have ever issued.
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 The Adventures of Robin Hood: Special Edition (1938)
Errol Flynn is eternally charming as Robin, defender of the poor, in this rousing family adventure that co-stars Olivia de Havill and and Claude Rains.
The Adventures of Robin Hood appears in an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
The movie enjoyed a broad and vivid palette, and the hues came across as vibrant and dynamic at all times.
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 The Robin Hood Picture Gallery
I first collected Robin Hood comics for an academic paper which I delivered at the 1998 SEMA conference and a modified version of it at the 1999 Robin Hood conference in Nottingham.
Errol Flynn and Patric Knowles in the 1938 movie The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Robin Hood in the caves beneath the Salutation Inn
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 "Adventures Of Robin Hood The" Subtitles
While Richard is bent on adventure in foreign lands...
I noticed when Robin Hood's name is mentioned...
Arise, Robin, Baron of Locksley, Earl of Sherwood and Nottingham...
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 Robin Hood Festival - Home
The Robin Hood Legend belongs to the downtrodden.
Inspired by the recent re-release of the 1938 Robin Hood classic, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Sherwood's town-fathers took the Legend and made it the most successful public relations venture in the town's history.
He floated the idea of having a Robin Hood Festival in his newspaper, the "Sherwood Valley News." A crew of World War II veterans (Elks and Kiwanis mostly) rolled up their sleeves and dyed their long johns green and showed up at movie houses wherever the Robin Hood movie was showing.
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 The DVD Journal | Reviews : The Adventures of Robin Hood: Special Edition
Like his descendants — Zorro, the Shadow, and Batman — Robin Hood is a man of means who uses his ethical and material bounty to protect those who would otherwise be ground beneath the heels of bad men.
Flynn is, of course, Sir Robin of Locksley, the charismatic Saxon knight who forsakes his comfortable manor to hide in the forest and lead a populist uprising.
Robin's rakish derring-do would be for naught without backup from his troops, his band of fellow outlaws.
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 The Adventures of Robin Hood
But every now and again, I'm lured back into days of old, when men were truly merry and wore their tights with pride, and jolly Robin was played with wit and panache by the dashing Errol Flynn.
Robin's quiver seems to refill itself no matter how many arrows he shoots.
Matching wits with Robin are the haughty Guy of Gisbourne (a polished Basil Rathbone), the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham (an oafish Melville Cooper) and the smooth and oily Prince John (Claude Rains).
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IMDb > The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
While filming Robin Hood's escape from the castle, actor Basil Rathbone was knocked down and trampled by extras, causing a spear wound in his right foot which required eight stitches to close.
But several years back she attended a revival of both The Adventures of Robin Hood and Dodge City two very different type films she did with Errol Flynn.
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 Home Theater & Sound -- The Adventures of Robin Hood - ****
This movie might be nearly 60 years old, but when it was made, it was filmed with the latest state-of-the-art techniques.
The Adventures of Robin Hood was an A movie in Technicolor and nothing was spared to make it a success.
The movie is offered on two discs, which might bother some, but there was an intermission for this very long film so the two parts fall just right on the discs.
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 The Adventures of Robin Hood : filmcritic.com Movie Review
In 12th century Britain, Robin of Locksley (Errol Flynn) gives up his Saxon life of ease and privilege to wage a small-scale war on those evil Normans, lead by the fatuous Prince John (Claude Rains) and the shrewdly unctuous Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone).
Robin’s Merry Men of Sherwood Forest are a combination of Keystone Cops and disciplined army who and win and win but sure go through some clumsy shenanigans to do it.
The movie also gets a boost from Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Academy Award winning score, the Robin Hood March, used as a leitmotif of grandeur and adventure in stirring the Merry Men into action.
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 Hood Canal Cottages at the Robin Hood Village - Hood Canal Cottages at the Robin Hood Village History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Robin Hood was built in 1934 by Don Beckman, a famous Hollywood set designer.
Hood Canal was discovered by Capt. George Vancouver in 1792 and named, "Hood's Channel".
Over the years the name changed to "Hood Canal" which is a gross misconception since a canal is a narrow, dirty, and artificial stretch of water.
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 Amazon.com: The Adventures of Robin Hood (Two-Disc Special Edition): DVD: Melville Cooper,Errol Flynn,Alan Hale,Ian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood, and his easygoing manner is a marvelous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction.
Errol Flynn is eternally charming as Robin, defender of the poor, in this rousing family adventure that co-stars Olivia de Havilland and Claude Rains.
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD was Warners' biggest box office hit of 1938, became a multiple Academy Award winner (with the most statuettes of any film that year), and it's luster has only increased through the years, being named as one of the AFI's 100 Greatest Films of All Time.
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 DVD Breakdown | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
It was a prestige picture that marked a departure from the gritty urban thrillers for which the studio was best known, and was by far the most expensive picture ever produced at Warner.
'Robin Hood through the Ages' is actually a six-minute encapsulation of the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks filim, with Behlmer offering direct comparisons to the 1938 version and some historical background tidbits.
The funniest is Rabbit Hood, a real vintage 'toon with Bugs Bunny trying to outsmart the Sheriff of Nottingham after stealing a carrot, and it includes a clever cameo at the end.
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 Adventures Of Robin Hood DVD Movie
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1995.
The best Robin Hood move ever made, and one of the best complete reviews of a move and the actors in it.
This is still the best Robin Hood film of all time and it's packed to the bursting with extras.
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 Download Adventures of Robin Hood Game DOS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I really liked the movie "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," but this game was not exactly based on the movie, though it does have a picture of Kevin Costner on the cover.
While along his adventure, young Robin Hood will go from a mere "boy in tights" to a real "prince" if you catch my drift.
It’s your job to control the bandit of Sherwood Forest and his merry men through level after level of treacherous gameplay, improving your ranking to that of "hero." The ultimate object of the game is to reclaim your castle and kill the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham.
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 The Jujube Spotlight - The Adventures of Robin Hood
Not only are Robin and his men exceedingly merry (who knew living in trees, getting shot at daily, and subsisting on animal haunches was such a hoot?), but the movie plays like a 1950s public awareness piece warning boys not to fall in with the wrong crowd.
The one major deviation from the usual telling is that Robin's chief rival is not the Sheriff of Nottingham (who appears as a doughy wimp), but the arrogant Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone), who, of course, fancies Marian for himself.
That said, however, "Robin Hood" does feature perfectly splendid costumes (although even Flynn barely keeps his dignity in the tights and feathered cap), and the action sequences get the job done, despite looking rusty by our "Matrix"-driven standards.
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 Adventures of Robin Hood Movie: Adventures of Robin Hood DVD is available from Bestprices.com
The Adventures of Robin Hood [TV Series] - This 1950's TV series is based on the legendary Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest and his men, who try to keep Prince John from usurping Richard the Lionhearted's throne while he is off fighting in the Crusades.
The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Youngest Outlaw
The Adventures of Robin Hood: The Deserted Castle
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 Robin Hood Links
Fifth Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies is being held from September 29 to October 2, 2005 at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware.
Robin Hood is often considered the archetypal outlaw hero.
As a result, many cultural heroes are referred to as the Robin Hoods of their respective countries.
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 Errol Flynn: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
HE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD was an international sensation, and replaced Fairbanks' ROBIN HOOD as the definitive film of its genre - a distinction it carries to this day.
Robin defiantly strolls into the great hall with a deer carcass on his shoulders to engage Prince John in rebellious banter.
The Mel Brooks film Robin Hood: Men in Tights might have been inspired into production by Kevin Costner's version, but anyone who has seen the Errol Flynn version KNOWS that it clearly shares equal time in this amusing spoof.
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 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Obviously William Keighley, the primary director of The Adventures of Robin Hood, felt this certainty of purpose.
For Keighley to consider tackling the arc of Robin Hood's life in less than two hours, he must have hoped to channel and tap the power of cinema.
Surprisingly, only a few liberties are taken with the legend of Robin Hood, enough to ensure a fast-paced adventure.
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 Movie Posters: Adventure, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Brothers, 1938). Three Sheet (41" X 81"). Warner ...
Movie Posters: Adventure, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Brothers, 1938).
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Brothers, 1938).
Errol Flynn performed the role with such relish that he created the standard for all future Robin Hoods, and created for himself Hollywood immortality.
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