The Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS]

The Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS]
by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley

The Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS]

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Actor: Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Producer: Henry Blanke
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Writer: Norman Reilly Raine
Writer: Rowland Leigh
Writer: Seton I. Miller
Edition: VHS Tape
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 102 minutes
Release Date: 2001-05-08
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Movie Reviews of The Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS]

Movie Review: A Classic
Summary: 5 Stars

An excellent transfer to blu-ray. This disc is Region Free and does play on UK blu-ray players.

Movie Review: Great, simply great
Summary: 5 Stars

This is one of the greatest films of all time, folks. I don't know if I've ever seen such cast camaraderie in a film cast before (the only other occurrence that comes to mind is "Rio Bravo" with John Wayne, Dean Martin, Rick Nelson, Angie Dickenson, and Walter Brennen). It permeates through this film and it is one of the reasons that this film in particular has become a classic and probably one of the top ten best movies of all time. It is beautifully shot, perfectly acted, and the score is gorgeous. If you are a fan of cinema, this belongs in your collection, especially on blu-ray. I will admit that I do like the Costner version as a guilty pleasure, but THIS is the cornerstone, the truest representation of Robin Hood on film.

**Postscript** Also recommended as a sequel to this film is "Robin & Marian" with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn. Trust me.

Movie Review: You haven't seen the classic Robin Hood until you have seen it in Blu-Ray!
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this as a gift for someone who loves the classic films. Together we must have seen this film before at least a dozen times. I wasn't expecting a lot of difference between the DVD version and the blu-ray version but I was wrong. The colors and details of the imagery just pop out at you! Blu-ray is the perfect showcase for this classic!

Movie Review: The Greatest
Summary: 5 Stars

Not just the greatest Robin Hood movie ever made, but one of the greatest movies ever made!

Movie Review: "Damn their black hides! I'll lash them till they bleat!" Robin Hood
Summary: 5 Stars

We are watching a 1.4 million dollar early production of "Robin Hood" (1922).
The sets were the most expensive at the time.

King Richard the Lion-Hearted (Wallace Beery) oversees a tournament just before the great crusades. The winner of course is a knight, The Earl of Huntingdon (Douglas Fairbanks.) What does he win? The right to be Richards's right hand man in the Crusades. Richard knowing that the Earl is woman shy forces the winner to be surrounded by every female available.

While the king is away on the Crusades, his brother has a plan in process to usurp the thrown and practices his evil ways on the people of England.

Can no one save them? Is there no leader to champion their cause against oppression?

This is the KINO international film.
We are al familiar with the most popular version of Robin Hood and this film pretty much follows form. However (it just may be from watching it nearly a century later) Lady Marian Fitzwalter (Enid Bennett) looks like a sixties hippy. Who ever picked the music? The film is almost better off without it; this is some sort of electronic concoction.

Of course after the fact better versions of the story were filmed. However that can not distract that this one was a biggie in its day; the premiere was held at Grauman's brand new Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.

To get a better background on the story I suggest you read about the cinematic history of Robin.
Robin Hood: A Cinematic History of the English Outlaw and His Scottish Counterparts by Scott Allen Nollen (May 1999)

Robin Hood: A Cinematic History of the English Outlaw and His Scottish Counterparts

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Summary of The Adventures of Robin Hood [VHS]

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 clich? 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

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 clich? 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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