from Warner Bros.
Directed by
Michael
Curtiz
Starring
Errol
Flynn ...Robin Hood (Sir Robin of Locksley)
Olivia
de Havilland ...Maid Marian (Lady Marian Fitzswalter)
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 the Miller's Son
Montagu Love ...Bishop of Black Canons
Leonard Willey ...Essex
Robert Noble ...Sir Ralfe
Kenneth Hunter ...Sir Mortimer
Robert Warwick ...Sir Geoffrey
Colin Kenny ...Sir Baldwin
Lester Matthews ...Sir Ivor
Harry Cording ...Dicken Malbott
Howard Hill ...Captain of Archers
Ivan F. Simpson ...Proprietor of Kent Road Tavern
Alec Harford ...Outlaw
Holmes Herbert ...Referee
Peter Hobbes ...Outlaw
Leyland Hodgson ...Norman Officer
Michael Hordern ...Norman thug
Olaf Hytten ...Outlaw
Crauford Kent ...Sir Norbett
Marten Lamont ...Sir Guy's Squire
Charles McNaughton ...Crippen
Leonard Mudie ...Town Crier
Lionel Belmore ...Humility Prin
Reginald Sheffield
Ernie Stanton ...Outlaw
Val Stanton ...Outlaw
John Sutton ...Richard's Knight
Hal Brazeale ...High Sheriff's Squire
Eddie Dew ...Outlaw
Herbert Evans ...Seneschal
Austin Fairman ...Sir Nigel
Janet Shaw ...Humility's Daughter
Written by
Norman Reilly Raine
Seton I. Miller |
 Swashbuckling
spectacle about the infamous outlaw and his band of merry men
who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor." Robin
Hood (Errol Flynn) fights for justice against the evil Sir Guy
of Gisbourne (Basil Rathbone), while striving to win the hand
of the beautiful Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland). Never outdone
by remakes, this epic features great sword play, music, characters
and storybook. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Picture.
Academy Awards: Best Original Score, Best Film Editing. One of
the earliest films to use three-color Technicolor and, at the
time, the most expensive film Warner Bros. had produced ($2 million).
William Keighley started directing the film, but Curtiz finished
the filming. According to Variety, Curtiz took the helm because
Keighley became ill but, according to Halliwell, Curtiz became
director because "it was felt that the action lacked impact."
|