Tagline: Excitement… Danger… Suspense… as this classic adventure story sweeps across the screen!
The Adventures of Robin Hood movie storyline. With King Richard the Lionhearted away fighting wars in the Holy Land, his brother Prince John seizes the Regency. The Normans are hard on the Saxon peasants, and when Prince John learns that Richard is being held for ransom in Vienna, he taxes them beyond all reasonable limits supposedly to pay for his release. Sir Robin of Locksley, a Saxon lord, rebels against the Prince and his principal henchman,
Sir Guy of Gisbourne. Declared an outlaw, he takes up residence in Sherwood Forest and begins to surround himself with those who are loyal to King Richard: Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet and all the rest. When the Prince and Gisbourne manage to capture him by staging a archery contest, it’s the beautiful Maid Marion who arranges his escape. When Robin and his men learn that Richard is in England, they protect him and ensure his evil brother is removed from power.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) is one of the largest, most colorful costume dramas, swashbucklers, adventure films and romantic tinged film history. After the restrictions placed on the ice film industry following the creation of the Production Code Administration (Breen Office) in the mid-1930s, Warner Bros. Studios has decided to find relief from censorship, leading a renaissance Film history adventure and fantasy, with swords, the sweeping action, and romantic charm.
The film skillfully tells the story of the heroic Robin Sherwood Forest and his followers, who saved England from the treachery of the king by the noble intrigues during the absence of the crusade and captured, ransomed King Richard the Lion Heart. And he tells the tale of chivalry nostalgic novel, the colorful pageantry, triumphant on the strength and simple justice ugly evil, and spectacular action.
There were at least six attempts during the silent era to history. The Reginald De Koven, Harry B. Smith comic opera version of Robin Hood was introduced in 1890. And Douglas Fairbanks starred as the infamous outlaw hero and Wallace Beery as Richard the Lion Heart in a silent version of the film directed by Allan Dwan – Robin Hood (1922), which was the most expensive film made up to that time (at $ 1.6 – 2 million). In addition to his daring stunt work (drag a drapery, engage in archery and fencing, and other tricks), Fairbanks wrote the screenplay (with a pseudonym Elton Thomas) for fast moving epic silence filled pageantry of the Middle Ages.
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Directed by: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Una O’Connor, Herbert Mundin, Kenneth Hunter
Screenplay by: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller, Rowland Leigh
Cinematography by: Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito
Film Editing by: Ralph Dawson
Costume Design by: Milo Anderson
Art Direction by: Carl Jules Weyl
Music by: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
MPAA Rating: PG for adventure violence.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: May 14, 1938
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