Adventures of Robin Hood (Blu-ray) (1938)

Editor's Note In Michael Curtiz's swashbuckling spectacle about the infamous outlaw and his band of merry men who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor," Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone) while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland). Flynn joyously embraces the role widely considered the best of his bountiful array of swashbuckling legends. Delivering his lines and performing dashing acrobatics (he did most of his own stunts) with breezy élan, he darts across the intricate sets of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD as if there are rocket boosters secreted in his tights. It was one of the earliest films to use three-color Technicolor and, at the time, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had produced. Erich Wolfgang Korngold's outstanding score won an Oscar, as did the art direction and the editing.

	Olivia de Havilland
	Basil Rathbone
	Claude Rains
	Errol Flynn
	Patric Knowles
	Una O'Connor
	Ralph Dawson - Editor
	Milo Anderson - Costume Designer
	Seton I. Miller - Screenwriter
	Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Composer
	Norman Reilly Raine - Screenwriter
	Sir Walter Scott - Source Writer
	Tony Gaudio - Director of Photography
	Sol Polito - Director of Photography
	Perc Westmore - Makeup
	Carl Jules Weyl - Production Designer
	Henry Blanke - Producer
	Michael Curtiz - Director
	William Keighley - Director

Los Angeles Times
"...A treat for the eye and ear....An action-packed romantic take on the old legend..." 10/06/2003 p.C12

USA Today
"...Visually, screen reds were never redder nor greens greener, and this was the screen adventure for the era..." 10/03/2003 p.6E

Total Film
"[T]he dialogue is delectable Hollywood fustian at is best; the period Technicolor glows like a jewel..." 02/01/2004 p.114-5

Premiere
"[O]ut of all the embodiments of derring-do played by Flynn, his nobelman-turned-defender-of-the-poor-and-oppressed is the most purely joyous." 04/01/2004 p.70

Sight and Sound
"[A] Technicolor swashbuckler." 04/01/2004 p.74