Review of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) by Adam S — 15 May 2010
Glorious swashbuckling cheese from Warner Brothers and their Hungarian craftsman Michael Curtiz, who blends all of the Robin Hood fables into one ball of colorful mayhem, with a hammy Errol Flynn presiding over the rebellion with a rakish charm that only Errol Flynn could get away with.
Excellent supporting work from classic baddie Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, the Technicolor radiance of Olivia de Havilland, Eugene Pallette, and Una O'Connor, and if ever there was a score that deserved it's Oscar more for setting a film's cheery, adventurous mood, it's Erich Wolfgang Korngold's trumpets aplenty orchestrations, which nicely complement the cheeky acting and adventure.
An American classic.
This review of The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) was written by Adam S on 15 May 2010.
The Adventures of Robin Hood has generally received very positive reviews.
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