Adventures of Robin Hood

Adventures of Robin Hood

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 the portly Friar Tuck, and Melville Cooper the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood, and his easygoing manner is a marvelous 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. --Sean Axmaker

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1938
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Robin Hood:
Men, if you're willing to fight for our people, I want you!

Robin Hood:
I'll organize revolt, exact a death for a death, and I'll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up free men and strike a blow for Richard and England.

Prince John:
Are you finished?

Robin Hood:
I'm only just beginning. From this night forward I'll use every means in my power to fight you!

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
Why, you speak treason!

Robin Hood:
Fluently.

Sir Guy of Gisbourne:
You've come to Nottingham once too often!

Robin Hood:
When this is over, my friend, there'll be no need for me to come again.

Robin Hood:
It's injustice I hate, not the Normans.

Prince John:
Any objections to the new tax, from our Saxon friends?

Prince John:
Ho, varlets, bring Sir Robin food! Such insolence must support a healthy appetite!

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
Robin!

Robin Hood:
Yes?

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
Please.

Robin Hood:
Then you do love me, don't you? Don't you?

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
You know I do.

Robin Hood:
Well, that's different. (Robin re-enters the window and they share an embrace and kiss.)

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
You know you're very impudent.

Robin Hood:
Me?

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
You are. And when my real guardian King Richard finds out about your being in love with me...

Robin Hood:
I know, he'll make me court jester.

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
He won't. He'll stick your funny head on London's Gate.

Robin Hood:
A very fine decoration it will be, my bold Norman beauty.

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
I'm not bold.

Robin Hood:
But you're a Norman... And you are a beauty. You are the most beautiful...

Lady Marian Fitzswalter:
And you're leaving here at once. Please darling! Every minute you're here, you're in danger.

Robin Hood:
I know...

Town Crier announcing capture of Richard:
News has come from Vienna: "Leopold of Austria has seized King Richard on his return from the Crusades. Our king is being held prisoner. Nothing further is known. His Highness Prince John will make further public pronouncement tomorrow."

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