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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 5

  horses do not know they're in a movie

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  Review by Gabriel Gundacker 6

  Makes me miss pre-COVID, when me and my merry band of outlaws and thieves rode deep into the forest and danced around tables of heavy mutton, spilling goblets of splendid ale all over our leather greaves!

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  Review by BRAT ★★★½ 7

  shrek vibes as fuck

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 5

  It's kind of embarrassing how much better this is than every other Robin Hood movie from the past 80 years.

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  Review by Quinn 7

  Drinking game: take a shot whenever a character in this film throws their head back and laughs.

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  Review by Paul Elliott ★★★★★

  The productive employment of Technicolor used in The Adventures of Robin Hood still manages to mesmerise, and it unquestionably remains an unforgettable swashbuckler. It is directed by Michael Curtiz who visually contrasts extreme high and low angles while the lushly composed score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold helped to set a new high standard for film music.

  Its runtime involves some bold strokes which are strikingly rendered by superb art direction by Carl Jules Weyl along with dramatic cinematography by Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio. The across-the-board splendour also encompasses some outstanding stunt work, and there’s genuine enjoyment in the sword and archery battles. It’s all rapidly paced and its themes of political intrigue, class struggle, male bonding and romance, which unsurprisingly climaxes with good triumphing over evil, help to make this the authoritative version of the mythology of Robin of Loxley.

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  Review by Christopher Moore ★★★★★ 14

  She's gone.

  At the grand old age of 104, Olivia de Havilland has passed away, which, to me, symbolizes the end of an era: the truly final connection who could tell us what an age was really like, knew all of its major players, and someone who experienced more than her fair share of its trials and tribulations.

  With all due respect to those actors and actresses still living from the era, none of them were as emblematic of the Golden Age of Hollywood - or as big a star during it - as Olivia de Havilland was.

  It's fitting then that I should decide to watch The Adventures of Robin Hood to commemorate Olivia's passing. The film is a…

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★½

  (Criterion Laser Disc Collection)

  With all the bright colors, clashing swords, and hardy laughter ... they say the story of Robin Hood doesn't get more classic than this.

  "Well, sir rascal, tell me, who are you? ... I'm called Robin Hood ... It seems I've heard of you ... Nothing good, I hope."

  I can appreciate the popular opinion that The Adventures of Robin Hood shot in vivid Technicolor is the definitive version of this story. Heck, its influence can clearly be seen in every version that I have seen. But for me just now seeing it for the first time, I thought it was just a really good classic adventure story, and it did not really amaze me.

  (Quick…

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  Review by Evan ★★★★ 8

  This was way better than I was expecting. For my film class, I have to write a 5-8 page paper comparing and contrasting this film, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and Robin Hood (2010). It's due in exactly one week -___-. So in other words, it will be 5 pages lol.

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  Review by eely 🌻 ★★★½ 6

  I understand that the rumors that cary grant worked as a spy for the allies and outed errol flynn as a nazi sympathizer come from a not-so-reputable source, all I’M saying is that errol flynn does the nazi salute THREE TIMES in this movie and having that information in the back of my head while watching this really did not help his case. errol flynn’s autobiography being titled “my wicked, wicked ways” doesn’t do much to help his case either.

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  Review by Cormac 👑 ★★★★ 12

  Cooped up in bed with the dreaded virus and the swashbuckling, Technicolor adventures of Sherwood Forrest were the ice cold pick to my over-enflamed heart. With the unwavering warmth of Flynn and De Havilland tailor-made to keep the stuffy shivers at bay. Even a prickly fire in the bellies of Sir’s Rathbone and Rains did its due part — and then some. My apologies in advance for when all immediate logs devolve into the snot-nosed ravings of an deluded madman. I can only promise so much to be 100% accurate.

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  Review by Rich ★★★★★

  10/10

  This is certainly the best Robin Hood film ever made, even by today’s standards. Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland are absolutely incredible!

  The film is a funny and entertaining adventure with some great action scenes. It is never dull or boring, quite the contrary, it is always enjoyable. Flynn’s Robin is noble but also hilarious. The way he treats all his enemies with sarcasm and disrespect is amazing.  

  Such a great film! Must watch for anyone!  One of my all-time favorites now!