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The Adventures Of Robin Hood [1938] [DVD]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 0732190065131
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 2004-01-26
Title : The Adventures Of Robin Hood [1938] [DVD]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Parental Guidance
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Original release date : 1938-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 97
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1938-05-14
Number of discs : 2

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood in the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing Technicolor adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor." Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks's silent version), Eugene Palette plays the portly Friar Tuck and Melville Cooper is the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood and his easygoing manner is a marvellous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls. I--Sean Axmaker/I

Amazon.co.uk Review
Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin in 1938's IThe Adventures of Robin Hood/I, the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing technicolour adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold--music that became a template for countless later movies, notably John Williams' IStar Wars/I and IIndiana Jones/I scores. p The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor". Stocky Alan Hale Sr plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks' silent version), Eugene Palette plays the portly Friar Tuck and Melville Cooper is the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin and his easygoing manner is a marvellous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls. --ISean Axmaker/I

Customer reviews

review by: Steve M date: 2009-06-17 rating:

Buckle My Swash!!
Got this for our boys, and to take with us on holiday, we were with another family with two boys as well, I thought it'd be good for a rainy day; for adults it's as corny as hell, but they all thought it was great, age range 5-10. Good clean family fun, would be good to set the scene if you were taking children to a castle, which we did whilst on hols, made it a bit more real. Remastered so looks good. Recommended.

review by: date: 2009-03-03 rating:

Classic Robin Hood
A classic myth/legend given classic film treatment. Still the best film version of the stories available.

review by: Scott Burrows date: 2009-02-11 rating:

Best buy
The adventures of Robin Hood 1938. br /When I first saw this film on television in the days when it was just analogue. br /The film was in its original colour. br /The colour has now been made better than ever and looks great. br /Many films of Robin Hood have been made but I still regard this film as the best version of all time. br /Its a timeless classic and the costumes in the film are classic yet original and the film sets are wonderful. br /The film stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland who teamed up together in five films.

review by: date: 2009-02-08 rating:

adventures of robin hood
quite one of errol flynn's best second only to the sea hawk made in 1938 it can hold it's own with any modern adventure film

review by: date: 2008-12-19 rating:

Turning Lincoln green - castor oil, nurse!
Errol Flynn gets bad wig, dresses in green tights and reckons it's time he made Marion. Filmed in an England with no drizzle or fog - Warner Bros' back lot - here is a land where the Technicolor never dimmed and everyone laughed through the most dire adversity. Thick or what? They had so much fun back in those days, they didn't even know they were starving. Even the nobility was stupid - fancy Prince John and cronies falling for that old 'Let's get by the guards dressed as friars' trick! Enter Rasil Bathbun, arch-fiend and all-round bad egg, intent on robbing the poor and generally acting like McEnroe 40-love down. "Come now, Sir Guy," says Robin, "you wouldn't kill a man for telling the truth, would you?" Bathbun replies, "If it amused me, yes!" Now that's my kind of villain!

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