The Adventures of Robin Hood
Of the 12 films Errol Flynn made with director Michael Curtiz, The Adventures of Robin Hood is easily their most beloved, and one of the great swashbucklers from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Under the guidance of producer Hal B. Wallis, the film was Warner Brothers’ first Technicolor feature, and the studio spared no expense to make it a lush, vibrant extravaganza, renting all 11 Technicolor cameras in existence at the time. Wallis was responsible for casting Errol Flynn after original star James Cagney walked off the film, and for bringing on Michael Curtiz to replace the film’s first director William Keighley when he felt the film’s action sequences lacked “punch.” With a star-studded supporting cast—which includes Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, and Alan Hale Sr.—the film proved to be a huge box office hit, grossing more than $4 million at a time when movie tickets cost less than a quarter. But the film’s true legacy is Flynn’s performance, which has become so iconic that all other actors who play the green-clad archer are judged against him. TCM's Robert Osborne will introduce the screening
Cast & Crew
Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Editor: Ralph Dawson
Screenwriter: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller
Cinematographer: Sol Polito, Tony Gaudio
Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Principal Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale
Filmography: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); King Creole (1958); White Christmas (1954); The Jazz Singer (1952); The Breaking Point (1950); Night and Day (1946); Mildred Pierce (1945); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); Casablanca (1942); The Sea Hawk (1940); Angels with Dirty Faces (1938); Captain Blood (1935); Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
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