Posted on 06/16/2023 5:23:43 PM PDT by simpson96
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) was directed by Michael Curtiz, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, and Alan Hale. The film is noted for its Academy Award-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Both she and her sister, Joan Fontaine, were beautiful young women. Their sibling rivalry was legendary.
Turner Classic Movies had a show on how color was developed in the movies. I thought it was very good.
I love that movie!
The sword fight between Flynn and Rathbone was epic in the history of cinema. And yes, Olivia DeHavilland was lovely and warm
There were great directors, excellent screen writers, imaginative costume designers, fantastic music composers!
Who doesn't remember Maurice Jarre’s score as the sun drenched desert sweeps before you in Lawrence of Arabia? Or the cinematography of the POWs as they march to attention as Col. Bogey is playing in the background in The Bridge Over the River Kwai? Who doesn't remember the beginning minutes of both Star Wars and Raiders of the Ark? Those were movies moments that hundreds of millions of movie goers enjoyed all within weeks of each other. Now Hollywood has become boringly repetitive with less than exciting actors, directors, etc.
I love this movie. I have the “Sherwood Forest” fanfare as a notification sound on my iPhone.
Absolutely agree.
Best version ever!
This and Captain Blood are two of my favorites with Flynn, de Havilland and Rathbone in them.
When king Richard reveals himself to the Sherwood Forest group and their Immediate response is to drop to their knees in unison honoring their king, I think of how it will be when we see our King of Kings and Lords of Lords as we drop to our knees in adoration of Him! It gives me goosebumps!
That scene where the man was shot while walking down the steps was real. He WAS being hit with arrows by an expert marksman. Was wearing padding to keep from getting killed.
And in the opening scene, those men were really jumping through the branches.
My mother said my dad and his friends would do that until one of them broke an arm.
Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess! What an eternity it will be!
I have Becky Sharp (1935) and The Black Pirate (1926), two early colour productions, in my DVD collection.
Jarre’s score of Witness (1985) made that movie even more better. And he also did Ghost (1990).
but where’s the heroic noble black muslim morgan freeman character?
The horse that Olivis rides in the movie was later sold to Roy Rogers, who renamed him “Trigger.”
Errol Flynn tried to get into Olivia’s pants when they were filming the movie but she says she was uninterested.
“There were great directors, excellent screen writers, imaginative costume designers, fantastic music composers!“
There are “reaction videos “ on you tube wherein young people view acts from the past for the first time. Sometime the reactors are in the arts, sometimes they are just folks. There is one where five early twenties black guys are the reactors. Listening to their comments as they go it is surprising both what they know as well as what they don’t know. These five viewed Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers and were absolutely blown away by the sophistication and complexity and sheer athleticism of the 1930s/1940s performers . One said “Man we don’t do NUTHIN today, jus walk out bla bla bla …”
( Viewing a destruction via Larry Bird highlights of their cement hard cultural belief that what men can’t jump was a riot.)
“but where’s the heroic noble black muslim morgan freeman character?”
We weren’t so woke back in 1938.
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