The Adventures of Robin Hood, 1938 (Grade C)

Director: Michael Curtiz and William Keighley
Awards --multiple Adademy Awards --top 100 in AFI Thrills Category
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Haviland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patic Knowles, Alan Hale, Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper, Ian Hunter, Una O'Connor.

sez says: I was amazed how many  images that there are in this film that I remember from my childhood.  How many times could I have seen it?  But I know when I saw it way back when it was on an old B&W TV -- and this movie is a TECHNOCOLOR--with all caps COLOR-production.  They put color --as vividly as possible--everywhere they could. Including I might ask on the bad King John's vest--which seemed to have been lite with flashing colored lights! No kidding, I think they had his clothing wired up to flash!  Take a look and see what you think.
The story is too familiar to go into -- but somethings of note are: the costumes deserve an award for the most bizarre wear imaginable for living in the forest.  The sets were stupendous oversize amazement.  You could list some of the forest's trees as cast members, they were so impressive.  Olivia de Haviland was a striking beauty. And Errol Flynn really is fun to watch leaping about. And the sword fighting scenes deserve to be called classics.    Even so--classic that it is--it is also all too familiar to get a grade better than C --it is not a great film--but it is a fun film for those of us who had these images pressed into our memories at an early age.