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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Release date 14th May 1938
Country:  USA
Running time: 102 minutes
Genre : Action/Adventure
Starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains
Screenplay by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I Miller
Directed by Michael Curtiz


Robin of Locksley becomes an outlaw in Sherwood Forest when Prince John oppresses the Saxons. King Richard is captured in the Holyland while on the Crusades and John schemes to replace him as king. 

Lavish sets, Erich Wolfgang Korngold's rich score, and Michael Curtiz's robust, quick-cutting direction make this film the greatest swashbuckler ever made.The cost was enormous for 1938, more than $2 million but in the end it was worth it because this is a timeless classic with Errol Flynn the definitive Robin.

Flynn's overnight success with Captain Blood in 1935 made him the obvious choice for Robin Hood but the film was almost made with James Cagney in the title role but Cagney walked off the lot in a contract dispute. 

The film was begun by director William Keighley but when Jack Warner viewed Keighley's rushes, he decided that more vigor was needed and brought in his top action director, Curtiz.

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