Laserdisc Title: "THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938)"
Edition: The Criterion Collection (Single Disc)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patrick Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper
Special Features: ---see footnotes---
Production / Year: 1938 Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. Renewed 1965 United Artists
Running Time: 102 Minutes / Color by Technicolor
Audio Format: Digital Sound
Video Format: NTSC, CAV (Standard Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Not Rated
Distributed By: The Voyager Company (First Printing 1988)
Catalog / Spine Number: CC1166LL (Spine Number 66)

IMPORTANT: This is a 12-inch Diameter Laserdisc, which is NOT the same as DVD and cannot be played on a DVD player!

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Excellent - Hardly noticeable to very minor hairline surface swirls, if any
Jacket: Very Good - Normal shelf wear, few creases, light scuffs, slightly worn-out corners or edges but no signs of spines splitting

Synopsis:

Dashing Errol Flynn is the definitive Robin Hood in the most gloriously swashbuckling version of the legendary story. Warner Brothers reunited Michael Curtiz, their top-action director, with the winning team of Flynn and Olivia de Havilland (Maid Marian) and perennial villain Basil Rathbone as the aristocratic Sir Guy of Gisbourne, and pulled out all stops for the production. It became their costliest film to date, a grandly handsome, glowing Technicolor adventure set to a stirring, Oscar-winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor." Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks's silent version), Eugene Palette the portly Friar Tuck, and Melville Cooper the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham. Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood, and his easygoing manner is a marvelous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls.

The decadent Prince John (a smoothly conniving Claude Rains) takes advantage of King Richard's absence to tax the country into poverty but meets his match in the medieval guerrilla rebel Robin Hood and his Merry Men of Sherwood Forest, who rise up and, to quote a cliché coined by the film, "steal from the rich and give to the poor." Stocky Alan Hale Sr. plays Robin's loyal friend Little John (a part he played in Douglas Fairbanks's silent version), Eugene Palette the portly Friar Tuck, and Melville Cooper the bumbling Sheriff of Nottingham.

Flynn's confidence and cocky charm makes for a perfect Robin Hood, and his easygoing manner is a marvelous counterpoint to Rathbone's regal bearing and courtly diction. The film climaxes in their rousing battle-to-the-finish sword fight, a magnificently choreographed scene highlighted by Curtiz's inventive use of shadows cast upon the castle walls. After sixty years, this remains a classic.

SPECIAL FEATURES

An audio essay by Rudy Behlmer in which he discusses the making of the 1938 Warner Bros. classic, the people involved in the production and the evolution of the Robin Hood legend.

An excerpt from Robin Hood (1922) with Douglas Fairbanks, presented with Rudy Behlmer's comments.

Rare home movies of the film in production, including behind-the-scenes sequences from the Chico, California location and on the Nottingham Castle set at Warner Bros. studio in Burbank. Rudy Behlmer provides commentary.

An excerpt from Ivanhoe, MGM's 1952 classic in which Locksley (Robin Hood) and his men attack the castle.

Robin Hood through the ages, an extensive collection of illustrations from rare books, music, film and T.V. versions depicting the Robin Hood legend.

Full Feature Format (CAV) - All laserdisc functions are available including freeze frame, slow and fast motion, and random access.

THIS IS NOT A DVD!!! THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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