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  Review by demi adejuyigbe 5

  horses do not know they're in a movie

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 7

  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 brat pacino ★★★½ 8

  shrek vibes as fuck

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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 comrade_yui ★★★★

  groups of cool dudes slapping each other's backs and laughing for hours while running around the woods & beating the shit out of royals

  pretty much the ideal d&d campaign

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  Review by Justin Peterson ★★★½ 1

  (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 Kian Henderson-Cowley ★★★★

  Nothing like unwinding to a breezy classic at the end of a piss poor week, huh? Hard to believe I’ve only just gotten around to watching the OG, and undoubtedly the most uplifting iteration of British folklore’s ultimate philanthropist, considering how Prince Of Thieves and Disney’s adaptation bequeathed unto me a lifelong obsession with the legend. Today’s viewing has contributed to some creative research for a neat little script idea I’m developing, but more on that later eh. ;)

  The Adventures Of Robin Hood is such a weighted blanket of technicolour excellence. The kind you can just curl up with and zone out to its wealth of wily charms. An immaculate Old Hollywood production steeped in all manners of corrupted…

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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 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 threepenny ★★★½ 1

  I thought Robin Hood was about stealing from the rich and giving to the poor! But no - it's about the Normans vs. the Saxons! Those Norman bastards are treating the Saxons like second class citizens in their own lands! Go back to France! For some reason this angle of the story doesn't get a lot of play in any of the other adaptations I've seen.

  Lighthearted swashbuckling fun where the stakes are high but never so high as to not be a rabble-rouser in good humor. Errol Flynn and Eugene Pallette are definitive as Robin Hood and Friar Tuck, while Claude Rains and Basil Rathbone give the villains the necessary gravitas, counterbalancing Flynn's elan and je ne sais quoi…