Adventures of Robin Hood

Pros: Top notch acting by all concerned
Cons: None

Errol Flynn IS Robin Hood, as Johnny Weissmueller IS Tarzan, as Sean Connery IS Bond, James Bond. Once these people played the roles, they were theirs forever. As long as there is celluloid, VHS, DVD, or other media, there will be a Robin Hood, and it ...

Pros: Flynn. Rains. de Havilland. Rathbone. Energy. Set-pieces. Technicolor. Korngold's score. Great DVD
Cons: None

It seems odd now, but Errol Flynn was not Warner Brothers intended choice to play the title character in their seminal 1938 classic The Adventures of Robin Hood . Rather than having the dashing Tasmanian, studio executives originally wanted to ...

Pros: one of the most entertaining movies of all time
Cons: none

The 1938 Technicolor action masterpiece, The Adventures of Robin Hood, has received an outstanding 2-disc special edition DVD release. The film won three Academy Awards: music, editing, and art direction. This version of Robin Hood is the only one worth ...

Pros: Marion's costumes, campy dialogue and acting.
Cons: Lack of tension or suspense, hokey action scenes and dialogue.

My local theater, for some odd reason, was showing a restored print of this film on its big screen. ...

Pros: ErrolFlynn, Olivia De Haviland, Basil Rathbone, et al
Cons: Does show it's age

Simply the definitive movie about Robin Hood. And the best, bare none. And that includes Kevin Costner's overrated hymn to 90's political correctness.

The story is well known, King Richard the Lionhearted has fallen into the clutches of his...

Pros: costumes, sets, direction, cast, flair, action
Cons: simplistic characters and story

One of the first technicolor spectaculars, "The Adventures of Robin Hood" was an enormous commercial and critical success. The sets, costumes and cast were the best that Warner Brothers could provide. There was only one problem: in a successful...

Pros: A magnificent spectacle that gets better each time you see it.
Cons: Tinseltown has forgotten how to make pictures like this.

With those words a sentence of death is decreed by Basil Rathbone; (Sir Guy of Gisbourne) against the righteous outlaw Robin Hood. The Adventures of Robin Hood; (1938) is a true gem from Hollywood's golden age of films. Errol Flynn shines as the ...

Pros: Flynn and great supporting cast; production values
Cons: oversimplistic plot situations

Rarely in life is good and evil so clearly delineated as it is in this 1938 Warner Brothers film--by 1191, King Richard the Lion-Hearted, the Norman Conqueror, has left England to fight in the Crusades and in his absence, his brother Prince John...

Pros: Grand-scale Hollywood production. Robust acting and action from the top down. Glorious Technicolor.
Cons: Probably not the most realistic depiction of medieval English life. Mish-mosh of accents.

This won't take any awards as best picture ever made, but what a specimen of Hollywood's Golden-Age dream factory working at peak efficiency to make marvelous entertainment for young and old alike. Errol Flynn is every inch Sir Robin of Locksley, a...

Pros: Flynn's and DeHavilland's on-screen chemistry. Timeless story. Gorgeous sets and costumes. Great score
Cons: Don't look for historical accuracy...it's not here

I love Errol Flynn...To me he epitomizes the Swashbuckling hero with his roguish smile and dashing good looks. No matter how many times they make or re-make this classic tale, they will always be compared to this 1938 Errol Flynn classic. The on-screen...

Pros: Very entertaining, great scenery, color, and costumes
Cons: Sequence showing physical assault of a priest, as well as (almost) sexual assault

"The Adventures of Robin Hood", starring Errol Flynn, is easily one of the most enjoyable films ever created for family viewing. From start to finish, it proves to be full of rip-roaring, swashbuckling fun.

This movie would best be...