Robin Hood, Erich Wolfgang Korngold

[BarnabasFrid]

I'll take a bowl Claude with a heaping side of Rains-- YUM!

[LazlosPlane]

Melville Cooper Rules!!

[skellez83]

Haha looks like the Disney cartoon turned into "reality"~~~

[Besier74]

Best Robin Hood Movie ever made! Look the Names of all the Actors, Legends of Legends.....Flynn, Rathbone, Rains ect. ect.

[swallin19]

The Royal Rostrum close scenes are Curtiz, he was brought in as the close conversation scenes were, in Jack Warners opinion "very dull", the outdoors shot were second unit shots, with the final scenes of the contest shot by Curtiz., so a bit of a mixture, but still a classic sequence.

[swallin19]

I think the eyeline problem does not really exist, close study shows that it is reasonable, unless false assumptions have been made abut the actors positions. Some of the scenes were second unit, not Curtiz, who had taken over the direction when the first director was sacked by Warners. He re-shot little, demanding new scenes, which were edited in to scenes like this already in the can. Of far more concern is the odd costume that Flynn wears!!

[DOMuricu]

Love this film and I agree with a lot of people that it's possibly the single finest adventure film ever made. However, I have some problems with the archery tournament set piece. I find it difficult to believe that Curtiz directed the shots of Robin trying to escape the trap, because the logistics are bad, i.e. knights running in both directions like headless chickens. Also how can Marian initially see Robin when he's clearly out of line of sight, etc. etc.

[epmorris]

@DOMuricu All true but it still works for me . I love the wigs that appear to be attached to the hats and the hollywood blue skies. The dust when horses gallop is also unusual in England . lol

[DOMuricu]

@epmorris. Yes, but I can overlook those issues because it's basically a storybook approach. Sherwood, even with the 'Western' type soil and the vines, seems more like Sherwood than the actual location, at least in terms of our imagination. 'The Sea Hawk' has similar issues in the Panama sequence. What I had a problem with was shots that I just wouldn't expect Curtiz to settle for, even with the time and re-shoot overheads. It must have rankled with him at the time.

[swallin19]

@DOMuricu Line of sight, Hmm ....perhaps you should try editing films... it is plagued with such issues, and they rarely spoil a sequence, it is after all "only a play", and the fun is hardy effected. People outside the industry rarely conceive of how complex the process is, and this particular scene took a month to shoot!! With Korngolds score it is one of the finest sequences ever shot in an action film, getting it better would have been expensive and wasteful to Warners resources

[DOMuricu]

@swallin19, but that is exactly my point. Curtiz, who directed the archery tournament, was the kind of consumate professional who could stage the most elaborate and complex set pieces with great skill and imagination. I just find it hard to believe that he directed shots with such immediately obvious flaws....it's just completely uncharacteristic of him.

[bbdupon]

Great film-making and music from a golden era.

[ChopstickBrando]

Dang, Olivia is SO-O-O-O choice in this...

[nikosvault]

@ChopstickBrando Be careful. She might read this :)

[wollestoncraft]

IMO the best movie score ever! I watch Robin Hood every time it's on tv & have several copies to watch & lend. Pure entertainment! If u haven't seen it, watch it when it comes on TCM or rent. U won't be disappointed (unless u r looking for realism.) A wonderful adventure, great music & stars, the best character actors, beautifully filmed. Even the sound of the arrows flying was specially created.

[jpearlroth]

Korngold was the greatest composer to ever write for the movies, bar none !

[gladyspanther]

oopppsss this is the lion, the snake an the wolf

wow wow

[LFD254]

Korngolds music, especially the love theme for Robin and Marion is stunning.

[Prospro8]

The entire score is available on a Naxos CD with the Moscow Symphony.

[JoeSnyderwalk]

Take that silly-looking bonnet off!

[Shatallion]

This movie had me at Basil Rathbone and "Nincompoop" Hm. I'm going to like this.

[ttlms]

@Shatallion I envy you if you have not seen this. You are in for a treat on your first viewing.

[Ktfairy]

Saxons always cause disturbances!!!

great clip and music

[epmorris]

Haha very true ! The evil Normans - always the bad guys too. Even more sinister is the treacherous relationship between prince John and his absent brother. Happy Families eh??

[errolfan]

Thanks for the clarification, and try to excuse my attempts at humor.

[errolfan]

Pardon me for stating the obvious, but why am I looking at English subtitles when the principals are speaking the King's English? Unfortunately, I don't have audio for this posting. Braille, forget about it.

[epmorris]

The real purpose of the clip is to highlight the music The incidental reason for the subtitles is to assist anyone learning English - This film has universal appeal.

[WizardOfHumor1989]

Prince John: "Take that silly looking bonnet off!"

LOL

[mistahimaskwa]

I love Korngold

P.S.

"Will you take that bonnet off?!"

[epmorris]

Hehe- yes odd word - I love the way Claude Raines plays the part . The music is great too!

[erroldoyle]

He was certainly one of the greatest of all film composers.

Have collected Korngold recordings for years. He's absolutely one of the finest movie composers of all time. The "Robin Hood" score fully deserved the Oscar it won. His "Kings Row" was memorable too. All was richly melodic.

Other favorites: Miklos Rozsa, John Williams, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman.

[epmorris]

I agree entirely . Like you , I love listening to his work .

[mcnells18]

Randy Newman- Toy Story...check and mate!

[flameblitz]

Sounds much like Richard Wagner... bah!

[MichaSchlechtriem]

Yes, there is Coincidence.

Williams made his own Hommage to Korngold.

At the time of the making of Star Wars "classical" music for Movies had gone for a long time and Williams clearly had Korngold in mind when composing the Star Wars main title.

[5micky2]

I have a CD of some of Korngold's finest film music and was somewhat shocked when I heard his soaring theme for an acclaimed 1942 Ronald Reagan movie called King's Row. It sounded almost exactly the same as renowned composer John Williams' music for the 1975 film Star Wars. Coincidence?

[yanndick]

No coïncidence : Georges Lucas asked for that kind of music !

[korngoldkorngold]

Erich Wolfgang Korngold at his greatest. The greatest composer in the history of motion pictures with his greatest composition for film. THE gold standard by which all other film scores are judged. THE GREATEST film score in the history of motion pictures.

[requiemaeternam7]

wow are you korngold's son or something?

[korngoldkorngold]

No, I'm not EWK's son and I do not exagerrate the greatness of The Adventures of Robin Hood score. I have studied EWK's music very very extensively and have listened to the Robin Hood score thousands of times over many many years. If you wish to see more of EWK go to my space and search for Erich Wolfgang Korngold. There you will find a page I'm in process of creating which has dozens and dozens of pictures already posted. Also I happily own some of EWK's memorabilia which is pictured there.

[requiemaeternam7]

good god you're obsessed mate. Don't you think you're taking this a tad too far? Hans Zimmer is better than Korngold!

[korngoldkorngold]

With all due respect you may be the only individual in the world besides Hans Zimmer's mother who thinks "Hans Zimmer is better than Korngold". I used to be a working screenwriter in Hollywood and I can tell you in all honesty that all the music professionals I knew in Hollywood (and all film music scholars) viewed Korngold as easily the best composer in the history of the movies. But don't take my word for it but read for starters Andre Previn's liner notes to "Previn Conducts Korngold" CD.

[requiemaeternam7]

I don't need to listen to hacks like Previn, I listen to Zimmer himself who said in an interview he couldn't care less about Korngold.

Speaking of composer's mother you must be Korngold's mother cus only she could think so highly of his works!

[korngoldkorngold]

You are certainly entitled to your opinion but I trust you understand that almost no one concurs with you. Korngold on the other hand was lionized during his lifetime and after by talents as great as Mahler, Sibelius, Pucchini, Strauss. Artists like Heifitz, Schnabel, Shahan, Mutter, Hahn and Kavakos. Conductors like Nikisch, Walter, Szell, Sinnopli. Divas like Lehmann, Jeritza, Fleming, teKenawa. And hundreds more. A Ford will never be a Rolls Royce no matter how much you want it to be so.

[TheEnchantressFan]

I like Korngold very much and I like Miklós Rózsa equally as well. What do you think of him?

[korngoldkorngold]

Music scholars usually rank Rozsa as one of the five greatest film composers. Besides Korngold (who's always viewed as the greatest composer) and Rozsa, the others would be, Max Steiner, Alfred Newman, and John Williams, although scholars would argue about what order to put them in. Prokoviev and other classical composers wrote for film but their rankings are more problematical because they wrote so few scores. Check out my Erich Wolfgang Korngold page on MySpace. Write me there if you care to.