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Summary: Needs to be seen on the big screen
Review: Sadly, if you really want a taste of the spectacle offered by this wonderful movie, the video copy is not for you. More than most films it suffers from the shrink in size - try and see it in the cinema and youll realise how wonderful it is.
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Summary: No equal to Errol Flynn portraying this role
Review: Excellent cast, direction, music and color. Captured the times and the period of old England. Basil Rathbone and Errol Flynn give a startling performance in sword play. Claude Raines a villian you will love to hate.
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Summary: Unequaled
Review: Unequaled by anyone since, my all time favorite movie! Add a stirring score, rich photography to the on-screen chemistry of the two leads and you have the best swashbuckling movie to-date. Classic good versus evil makes all others pale in comparison
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Summary: I love this movie- it's a classic
Review: This is a great, fun movie- it has action, romance, comedy and great actors. I've seen this movie many times and it's always good each time I see it. It's great for the whole family, too.
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Summary: The BEST action/adventure film ever made.
Review: Errol Flynn at his best...swashbuckling at its best...action and adventure galore. This film is simply the best of the genre. The casting is perfect, from Flynn in the best role of his career, to Herbert Mundin as Much the Miller's son. The 3-strip color photography remains as vibrant today as when it was released 61 years ago. The dialogue between Flynn and Oliva de Havilland, between Flynn and Basil Rathbone, between Flynn and Claude Rains, is always lively, always fun. And Miss de Havilland's costumes are absolutely gorgeous, as is she.The film moves, never stops, and you are never bored. If you watch this movie alongside Kevin Costner's ill-advised Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, you realize why one should never try to improve on perfection. As the New York Times said in its original review in 1938, this film entertains everyone from 8 to 80. No argument here!
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Summary: An infectious enthusiasm not remotely seen anymore!
Review: This immensely stirring 1938 production is, perhaps, the supreme example of the kind they--sadly--don't make anymore. All concerned--Flynn (at his most charismatic); Rains, Rathbone, Hale, and other sundry supports (a plethora of splendidly memorable character performances); Curtiz (displaying his brilliant knack for keeping EVERYTHING moving); and the scriptwriters (keeping it all delightfully tongue-in-cheek, and stuffing it full of cheerfully witty humor);--give it their energetic all. These are marvelously assisted by perfect music, superb early Technicolor photography, and high production values. Humbugs may desire the modern bloodshed, unattractive characters, shabby decor and vesture; but if they also prefer the modern shallow acting, dull dialogue, inane scripting, heavy-handed direction, and total absence of that now-extinct infectious enthusiasm that elevates this classic actioner into one of the outstanding entertainment experiences in cinema history, then more's the pity for them. Alas, the days when Hollywood wasn't catered to such bloodthirsty populace! the days when hokum was hokum, devoid of pretentions of grandeur, and was so masterly crafted into exuberant fun for delighted audiences of all ages!
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Summary: The way movies ought to be made!
Review: This is the best in old fashioned entertainment, where evil in vanquished, good triumphs, and you leave feeling good! Errol Flynn IS Robin Hood, with a wonderful supporting cast of merry men. The music is magnificient and the kind that became the prototype for music in movies like Star Wars. My family can almost quote the entire movie from beginning to end. Plenty of good swashbuckling action, romance, and just plain fun. Must Own!
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Summary: finest of its type
Review: errol flynn gives a performance of a lifetime and it has to be rated one of the ten best movies ever made.
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Summary: Action, you can see.
Review: There will never be another Errol Flynn. In this film he's at his best. The fencing scene is a matter of great athletic ability. All the scenes are bright and easy to see, no dark lighting to cover up the use of stuntmen like in today's movies. A plausible plot with a satisfying ending.
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Summary: A golden film from Hollywood's Golden Age.
Review: "The Adventures of Robin Hood" was released in 1939, in glorious Techniclor. This was the same year, of course, as "Gone With The Wind," "Good-bye, Mr. Chips," and others. However, while those films have become somewhat dated, "Robin Hood," remains ageless in its swashbuckling, rollicking story line, it's unparalleled cast, and it's appeal to all ages. A must see for anyone interested in movies that told a story with characters that involved the audience, and a tremendous climax that moves even the most jaded of viewers. Five times five stars for "The Adventures of Robin Hood." END
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