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Excitement... Danger... Suspense... as this classic adventure story sweeps across the screen!
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
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Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone Claude Rains Patric Knowles Eugene Pallette Alan Hale Melville Cooper Ian Hunter Una O'Connor Herbert Mundin Montagu Love Leonard Willey Robert Noble Kenneth Hunter Robert Warwick Colin Kenny Lester Matthews Harry Cording Howard Hill Ivan F. Simpson Carole Landis
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Robin Hood - König der Vagabunden, Les aventures de Robin des Bois, 罗宾汉历险记, O Roben ton dason, La leggenda di Robin Hood, 로빈 훗의 모험, As Aventuras de Robin dos Bosques, Vatan Kurtaran Aslan, Robin Hoods äventyr
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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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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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One night, after a long day at work, I made my way home through the cold, wintery streets of Toronto. Tired and hungry, I wanted nothing more than to be safe inside my own house, eating a hot bowl of soup.
My walk brought me through a particularly rough neighbourhood. I usually made it a habit to stick to the safety of the main road, but my fatigue and rumbling stomach reminded me of a short cut a friend once pointed out, and the temptation was just too great.
It was a dark alleyway; appearing empty, but full of ominous doorways, explicit graffiti, and the miscellaneous debris of urban decay. Eerie whispers escaped from the shadows, and the disturbing meow…
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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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Drinking game: take a shot whenever a character in this film throws their head back and laughs.
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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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(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.
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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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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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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.