The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Directors:

Michael Curtiz
William Keighley

Drehbuchautoren:

Norman Reilly Raine (screenplay) and
Seton I. Miller (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

14. Mai 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Abenteuer | Romanze

Werbezeile:

Only the rainbow can duplicate its brilliance!

Plot:

When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

Plot Keywords:

Live Music | Robin Hood | Source Music | Men In Tights | Leitmotif

Filmpreise:

Won 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Errol Flynn VS Basil Rathbone, Round 2 I think

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Besetzung

Errol Flynn	...	Robin Hood
Olivia de Havilland	...	Maid Marian
Basil Rathbone	...	Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Claude Rains	...	Prince John
Patric Knowles	...	Will Scarlett
Eugene Pallette	...	Friar Tuck
Alan Hale	...	Little John
Melville Cooper	...	High Sheriff of Nottingham
Ian Hunter	...	King Richard the Lion-Heart
Una O'Connor	...	Bess
Herbert Mundin	...	Much
Montagu Love	...	Bishop of the Black Canons
Leonard Willey	...	Sir Essex
Robert Noble	...	Sir Ralf
Kenneth Hunter	...	Sir Mortimer

Alternativ:

Abenteuer des Robin Hood, Die (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]
Robin Hood, König der Vagabunden (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]
Robin Hoods Abenteuer (Österreich) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG for adventure violence.

Länge:

102 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

South Korea:12 (DVD rating) (2003) | USA:Approved (original rating) (PCA #3790) | West Germany:6 (nf) | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Canada:G (video rating) | Portugal:M/6 | Germany:6 (video rating) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Canada:F (Ontario) | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Chile:TE | Finland:K-16 (1938) | Ireland:G | Norway:7 | Peru:PT | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:PG (re-rating) (2003)

Drehorte:

Bidwell Park - Manzanita Avenue, Chico, California, USA

Firma:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Dies und das:

Originally planned with James Cagney playing the title role, but he quit Warner Brothers and production was postponed for three years.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: Just before Will Scarlett finds Much the Miller's Son after he has killed the King's would-be assassin, there was supposed to be a scene where King Richard fights Friar Tuck with his fists and wins, then is asked to prove his mettle by fighting Robin Hood himself. This scene was deleted, with the result that in the finished film, King Richard and Robin Hood appear to be about to fight for no reason.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Town Crier announcing capture of Richard: News has come from Vienna: "Leopold of Austria has seized King Richard on his return from the Crusades. Our king is being held prisoner. Nothing further is known. His Highness Prince John will make further public pronouncement tomorrow."

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)

Errol Flynn VS Basil Rathbone, Round 2 I think

The other early romanticism take on the Robin Hood legend, aside from the silent Douglas Fairbanks version. This one puts famed Hollywood hell raiser pirate Errol Flynn in the title role of Robin Hood. As would be expected of that scoundrel/scallywag Flynn's famous devil-may-care-heroics, the Flynn Robin Hood outrightly refuses to support Prince John when he commits what Robin views as treachery - trying to get himself made king and abusing the land and the people in what may or may not be the aftermath of his older brother King Ricahrd the Lion-Hearted's death while battling in the crusades. After nearly getting killed by John and Gisbourne's men, Robin goes on the run, with Will Scarlet and along the way acquiring Much, Little John, a cantankerous Friar Tuck, and a whole army of merry men in tights. From there, he becomes the great outlaw we all know and love, fighting Gisbourne, the bumbling Sheriff and Prince John anyway which way he can and sweeps that adorable sweetie pie Maid Marion off her feet.

Sure the costumes may look fake today and the film itself overly colorful, but it's still a fun time. Sure Errol Flynn doesn't have a well articulated British accent either, but at least he doesn't sound like he's from the heart land of America. Flynn is certainly a lot quicker on his feet than Kevin Costner was, which comes in handy when you're in a duel to the death. Basil Rathbone is a fairly menacing Gisbourne, smarter than the Robert Addie or Michael Wincott versions (he looks kind of like Christopher Lee), and Olivia de Havilland is a very pretty Marion without being overly sexual and slutty about it (as was the case with many leading ladies back then). Out of the versions I've seen this is probably the only one where the Sheriff is an idiot and Gisbourne is the real menace (Gisbourne died early in the Kevin Costner verison of Robin Hood, and on TV's "Robin of Sherwood" he was just this weird neurotic guy, and I'm afraid I don't remember the Patrick Bergin version of Robin Hood very well).

There are least five big action sequences here, namely Robin's two escapes from Nottingham, an ambush in Sherwood Forest and the climax between Robin's & King Richard's men at Nottingham castle. Naturally, there is a duel to the death that features shadows on the wall going at it while the actors are off screen. Good stuff, especially for the children.