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 elan, 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-colour Technicolor and, at the time, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had produced.
Directed by
Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Written by
Norman Reilly Raine (original screenplay); and Seton I. Miller (original screenplay); Rowland Leigh (screenplay construction contributor (uncredited)).
Starring
Errol Flynn (Robin Hood); Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian); Basil Rathbone (Sir Guy of Gisbourne); Claude Rains (Prince John); Patric Knowles (Will Scarlett); Eugene Pallette (Friar Tuck); Alan Hale (Little John); Melville Cooper (High Sheriff of Nottingham); Ian Hunter (King Richard the Lion-Heart); Una O'Connor (Bess); Herbert Mundin (Much-the-Miller's-Son); Montagu Love (Bishop of the Black Canons); Leonard Willey (Sir Essex); Robert Noble (Sir Ralf); Kenneth Hunter (Sir Mortimer). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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