The adventures of Robin Hood [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. presents a First National picture ; directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley ; original screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller.
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FilmPublisher number: 65131 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: engfrespa Summary language: engfrespa Original language: English Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2003.Edition: Special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790745410
- 9780790745411
- Adventures of Robin Hood (Motion picture).
- Produced by Hal B. Wallis ; music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold ; cinematography, Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito ; editing, Ralph Dawson.
- Winner of three Academy Awards: Best Film Editing, Interior decoration and Original Score.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several legendary episodes that had never before been filmed, notably the battle between Robin and Little John (Alan Hale Sr., who played this part three times in his long career) and the "piggy-back" episode between Robin and Friar Tuck (Eugene Pallette). The film ties together the various ancient anecdotes with a storyline bounded by the capture in Austria of Richard the Lionheart (Ian Hunter) on one end and Richard's triumphant return to England on the other. Robin Hood is already an outlaw at the outset of the film, while Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) is initially part of the enemy camp, as one of Prince John's (Claude Rains) entourage. Marian warms up to Robin's fight against injustice (and to Robin himself), eventually becoming a trusted ally. James Cagney was originally announced for the role of Robin Hood, just before Cagney left Warner Bros. in a salary dispute. William Keighley was the original director, but he worked too slowly to suit the tight production schedule and was replaced by Michael Curtiz (both men receive screen credit). A lengthy opening jousting sequence was shot but removed from the final print; portions of this sequence show up as stock footage in the 1957 Warners film The Story of Mankind. The chestnut-colored Palomino horse ridden by de Havilland in the Sherwood Forest scenes later gained screen stardom as Roy Rogers' Trigger. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on ancient Robin Hood legends.
Special features: outtakes; 1949 Looney Toon short Rabbit Hood; featurettes on Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone.
Videodisc release of the original 1938 feature film.
Produced by Hal B. Wallis ; music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold ; cinematography, Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito ; editing, Ralph Dawson.
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Una O'Connor.
Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived as an outlaw in Sherwood Forest dedicated to a fight against tyranny.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD, Region 1, digitally re-mastered; Dolby Digital mono.
English, French or Spanish language soundtrack with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish ; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Winner of three Academy Awards: Best Film Editing, Interior decoration and Original Score.