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

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.

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

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.

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!

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For some stupid reason I had very low expectations of The Adventures of Robin Hood, but actually it was so much fun. It's pure classic Hollywood; the hero is a cheeky bastard, the lady is beautiful, the villains are despicable, the line between good and bad is drawn clearly, it's filled with cheesy romance and fun action, and the hero and the good wins at the end. The story is simple yet exciting, the acting is campy yet perfectly so, the costumes and sets are wonderful and works well with the colors, and the dialogue is witty and most certainly purposeful. What more can you possibly want? This film is really worth a watch; it's a purely fun, innocent, exciting, delightful and timeless film that makes it difficult not to smile throughout, and is the ideal version of the tale of the legendary Robin Hood.

"Why, you speak treason!"
"Fluently"

The Adventures of Robin Hood is the definition of a fun time. It's colorful, adventurous, has some really exciting action sequences and a truly satisfying happy ending. What more could one wish in a movie? What impressed me most is how dynamic it felt considering it was made in 1938. There is no stiffness to the stunts and the sets feel so alive. It's no surprise that so many of the movies I love were influenced by it.

horses do not know they're in a movie

Robin Hood freaking rocks! The costumes and rich colors were wonderful! I would like to have Maid Marian’s outfits and also I would like to know what da heck da horses must’ve been thinking.

shrek vibes as fuck

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!

Beautiful technicolor spectacle rooted in character.

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army(IMDb)

One of the most fun Robin Hood movies. Flynn is at his most daring, Rathbone at his most dastardly and de Haviland at her most fetching.

As an early Technicolor movie, it is very colorful and bright - much more than makes sense. But what the hell, this is so much fun - who cares.

Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Writers: Norman Reilly Raine (original screenplay: based upon ancient Robin Hood legends), Seton I. Miller (original screenplay: based upon ancient Robin Hood legends)
Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone

Such an exciting, colorful, silly romp. What I wouldn’t give for the confidence of Errol Flynn parading around in his bright green, sequined tunic, laughing like there’s no tomorrow. A Rascal Robin will always be the best interpretation of Robin Hood. 
 
This could very well be the most influential movie ever made.

If Robin Hood was around in 2020 they would just drone strike him, wouldn’t they.

A fantastic adventure film. The story and performances always entertain and the sets and stunts always dazzle me.

What a delight to watch this one on the big screen.

I'm a huge fan of the Disney version, it's my favorite adaptation of Robin Hood, but this one for sure comes in second. Super fun and beautifully shot in Technicolor

bitches just want errol flynn in tights and a bomb ass score. we are all bitches, please stop kidding yourself

The best of Olivia de Havilland's eight cinematic collaborations with Errol Flynn, a glorious masterpiece of Technicolour entertainment that still looks incredible today -- which gives you a sense of how impressive it would have been to people in the 1930s used mainly to black-and-white films.

Robin Hood is one of those perennial figures in media, but he's never been done better in live action than here, and the studio knows to just deliver the story straight, rather than the exhausting range of would-be revisionist and gritty narratives we've gotten in recent years (though I have a soft spot for the goofiness of Prince of Thieves).

This isn't de Havilland's best acting role, by any means, though it may be my favourite film that she appeared in; but she's engaging, and she's got a terrific wardrobe (which, incidentally, includes period-appropriate veils, something that hardly any Hollywood films in subsequent decades bother with).