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Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) (DVD)
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Genre | Drama, Romance, Action & Adventure |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled |
Contributor | Montagu Love, Ian Hunter, Errol Flynn, Una O'Connor, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Melville Cooper, Herbert Mundin, Hal B. Wallis, Patrick Knowles, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Seton I. Miller, William Keighley, Norman Reilly Rane, Michael Curtiz, Basil Rathbone See more |
Initial release date | 2010-10-05 |
Language | English |
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Product Description
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1938) (DVD) Dashing Errol Flynn triumphs in this lavish, fast-paced version of the Robin Hood legend, a winner of three Academy Awards®* in ravishing Technicolor®. Doing many stunts himself, Flynn is at his athletic, romantic best in a role originally intended for James Cagney. Olivia de Havilland (as Maid Marian), consummate screen villains Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains, and a boisterous who’s who of character actors costar. Welcome to Sherwood!
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Director : William Keighley, Michael Curtiz
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Dubbed, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 42 minutes
- Release date : October 5, 2010
- Actors : Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Alan Hale
- Dubbed: : Spanish, French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Producers : Hal B. Wallis, William Keighley, Michael Curtiz
- Language : English (Mono), Spanish (Mono), French (Dolby Digital 1.0)
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B00407PNWO
- Writers : Norman Reilly Rane, Seton I. Miller
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,844 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #54 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #176 in Action & Adventure DVDs
- #241 in Drama DVDs
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After all the other attempts at telling the Robin Hood legend have come and gone, the Warner Bros. Errol Flynn version still entertains better than the rest. Shot on location in northern California for the outdoor sequences and on the Warner Bros. lot for many of the interiors and village scenes, this is a great Blu-ray offering that's loaded with behind-the-scenes features and commentary.
COLOR, DETAIL AND MAGNIFICENT COSTUMES
When upscaled on a 4k-capable Blu-ray player the detail in the colorful costumes looks even more startling and impressive. I grew up, like many, watching and rewatching this movie on black-and-white and then color televisions before the days of flat panel 4k TVs and I hadn't realized how much I was missing. There is another backstory to the restoration of this Technicolor film that the Blu-ray disc doesn't delve into suffice to say that new software was created to properly align the old and often warped strips of Technicolor film negatives and that's when the sumptuous detail of the costumes became evident.
THE CAST AND THE ACTION
Errol Flynn was perhaps one of the more underrated actors of his time. If you watch any of his films, it's clear that he became the characters he portrayed even as grandiose or exaggerated as they were. This is a remarkably entertaining film for its action sequences, humor, and over-the-top romance. One forgives the historical inaccuracies for the sake of going along for the ride. Olivia de Havilland is a delight to look at and delivers another great performance. The Basil Rathbone / Errol Flynn sword fight alone is worth the price of this Blu-ray. Trigger Warning: You can also catch Roy Rogers' horse prominently featured in several scenes.
A MUST-HAVE
For any serious student of film, this is a must-have for your collection because like Casablanca and so many other films made during Hollywood's Golden Age, it's a prime example of how entertaining, well-crafted, and well, just fun, the films were that came out of the studio system. If you have young kids, treat them with this Blu-ray offering.
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024
After all the other attempts at telling the Robin Hood legend have come and gone, the Warner Bros. Errol Flynn version still entertains better than the rest. Shot on location in northern California for the outdoor sequences and on the Warner Bros. lot for many of the interiors and village scenes, this is a great Blu-ray offering that's loaded with behind-the-scenes features and commentary.
COLOR, DETAIL AND MAGNIFICENT COSTUMES
When upscaled on a 4k-capable Blu-ray player the detail in the colorful costumes looks even more startling and impressive. I grew up, like many, watching and rewatching this movie on black-and-white and then color televisions before the days of flat panel 4k TVs and I hadn't realized how much I was missing. There is another backstory to the restoration of this Technicolor film that the Blu-ray disc doesn't delve into suffice to say that new software was created to properly align the old and often warped strips of Technicolor film negatives and that's when the sumptuous detail of the costumes became evident.
THE CAST AND THE ACTION
Errol Flynn was perhaps one of the more underrated actors of his time. If you watch any of his films, it's clear that he became the characters he portrayed even as grandiose or exaggerated as they were. This is a remarkably entertaining film for its action sequences, humor, and over-the-top romance. One forgives the historical inaccuracies for the sake of going along for the ride. Olivia de Havilland is a delight to look at and delivers another great performance. The Basil Rathbone / Errol Flynn sword fight alone is worth the price of this Blu-ray. Trigger Warning: You can also catch Roy Rogers' horse prominently featured in several scenes.
A MUST-HAVE
For any serious student of film, this is a must-have for your collection because like Casablanca and so many other films made during Hollywood's Golden Age, it's a prime example of how entertaining, well-crafted, and well, just fun, the films were that came out of the studio system. If you have young kids, treat them with this Blu-ray offering.
2. The Adventures of Robin Hood (TAORH) was Erich Wolfgang Korngold's (EWK) first (and only) score for a motion picture filmed in color (using the three-stripe Technicolor process then crossing over from experimental shorts to features). This is also the first film score to be broadcast pretty much intact, live, and on coast-to-coast radio (with Sir Guy of Gisbourne, recently recovered, narrating the story) in 1938. You can hear that broadcast on Disc 2. For Warner Bros., TAORH was the studio's first release of a full-color feature and the first with a budget of such magnitude (around two million USD all told which is pretty close to 200 million in today's movie-inflated dollars).
3. Disc 1 contains much (but not all) of the original sound track (OST) processed for the first time in Dolby Digital which yields a spectacular restoration! Disc 2 includes a number of improvised excerpts from film scores played, hummed, and "sung" by the composer along with a bit of chatting (mostly protesting) by EWK-I believe this is the first time Korngold's voice has been heard in a commercial recording (shades of Garbo!).
4. There are some problems with the audio recordings presented on this disc set. For starters, while the OST on Disc 1 contains most "major" cues (but not in their entirety), many others are missing (starting just a few minutes into the film). Given the history of how the OST recording was rescued from obliteration in the proverbial eleventh hour, we are indeed fortunate to have what we have. However, the cues presented on this disc are synchronized with a silent version of the film. This means that they end up being separated by all sorts of pauses (while dialog is occurring). Presenting a chopped up version of the OST as an adjunct to a de faco silent movie seems pretty dumb. Only those with an academic interest in matching cues with film scenes MAY find this of value-say about five folks on the entire planet! Next we have the "live" radio broadcast on Disc 2. This appears to be a complete version (at a little over 28 min), but it suffers from print through and wow&flutter, especially at the beginning. Given these tell-tale signs, this presentation does not sound like it was directly derived from original studio records. Perhaps of greater interest is that the miking/mixing is also decidedly different (and much improved) from an earlier, shorter version released on CD (Facet 8104, 1987, available from Amazon.com) which really sounds like a live recording!. So are we really hearing a live broadcast on Disc 2 or a post-broadcast studio recording? Finally, we have the "Erich Wolfgang Korngold Piano Session" also on Disc 2 (called "Korngold Scoring Session" on the back of the slip case) broken down into fragments from 12 listed film scores (and a few notes and bars from other ones). Although not acknowledged, all fragments come from a tape made in 1951 at a birthday for and at the home of Mr. Ray Heindorf (Music Director for Warner Bros.) with the composer as the honored guest (Heindorf also made the recording). (One fragment, "Love for Love" from ESCAPE ME NEVER, 1947, has appeared on at least three CDs and one laser disc, with the source usually not clearly acknowledged.) No fragment exceeds 2 min 30 sec, and several are less than 30 sec long. Fragmentizing as opposed to just running the tape end to end also seems pretty dumb. It is simply not the way to enjoy an impromptu session of Korngold at the piano.
5. Bottom line: Buy this DVD set for the film (and supplemental video materials), but NOT for the OST and related recordings.
William Flanigan, Ph.D.
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Y aunque el Robin Hood personificado por Flynn resulta demasiado fanfarrón, su caracterización no resulta molesta, sino al contrario,es todo un deleite verlo en acción, desafiando descaradamente, por ejemplo, al poder político y militar del infame príncipe Juan. La fanfarronería del Robin Hood de Flynn, con frecuencia resulta divertida e hilarante y los chistes moderados, lo cual se complementa con el final heroico, un tanto predecible, de esta versión fílmica de la novela de Walter Scott.
Reviewed in Mexico on January 8, 2023
Y aunque el Robin Hood personificado por Flynn resulta demasiado fanfarrón, su caracterización no resulta molesta, sino al contrario,es todo un deleite verlo en acción, desafiando descaradamente, por ejemplo, al poder político y militar del infame príncipe Juan. La fanfarronería del Robin Hood de Flynn, con frecuencia resulta divertida e hilarante y los chistes moderados, lo cual se complementa con el final heroico, un tanto predecible, de esta versión fílmica de la novela de Walter Scott.
Este blu-ray en concreto está editado por la MGM en los Estados Unidos y tiene las mismas características que la edición especial de dos DVDs editada en España, pero con una calidad de imagen y sonido original en inglés muy superior.
Pero antes de decidirnos por este blu-ray hay que saber que la versión en español es latino, aunque resulta muy difícil identificarlo como tal porque debe ser un doblaje de la época y no corresponde a ninguno de los tipos de latino reconocibles. Además, la Metro no ha subtitulado los extras, que son muchos e interesantes, los mismos que en el DVD de España.
Quizás la alternativa sea conservar esa edición especial junto a este bluray para tener la banda sonora en castellano y los extras subtitulados. Cualquier cosa antes que comprar esa edición barata que nos quieren imponer en España.