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  • He's so Australian!! The "-the hell are you looking at?" when he walks into the hall, leaning back in his chair, the "-the hell is that?" look at the spear. Our homegrown Robin Hood ;)

  • The best Robin Hood , forever and ever,

  • Yea best interpretation ever, such a vivid man errol flynn, the very way robin hood as to be, passionate, romantic, courages...what a joy :D

  • For anyone that grew up with, and loves this movie, there is a remarkable upload I just found on YouTube. Check out "The Adventures of Robin Hood Behind the Scenes" uploaded by "catbat007". It's a bunch of home movies taken as they were filming this movie in Chico, California. It's narrated by someone very knowledgeable about the film, and explains the filming process quite well.

  • listen i love flynn but richard greene play robin hood longer and didnt have the funny hair

  • He's sooooooooooo goooooooood as Sir Robin of Locksley!!! There IS no other; I agree there! Every other interpretation I have seen just pales in comparison to his lively, brilliant and jubilant portrayal!!

  • Ok, now I know why this man was the inspiriation behind Disney's Tangled character, Flynn Ryder. It's sooo him! :D

  • I came here just to make an arrow to the knee joke.

  • Errol Flynn is one heck a sexy man. But that's a ridiculous haircut he's wearing, though only he can get away with it (which he does). Luv him and the movie!! <33333 It's so unfair that I have to be a teenager in this day in age....what happened to the good old days when stardom was earned instead of manufactured??!!!!! Errol was born a star. He looked it, and was surprisingly talented. He won't be forgotten!!!

  • @Emmytaytay1 It's a wig & it caused him trouble throughout the making of the movie. Very uncomfortable to wear as were many costume accessories in Hollywood at the time.

  • LOVE ROBIN HOOD! SO COOL!

  • very nice video!!!! very nice analysis!!! and the colors are just perfect!!!

  • They weren't too "sophisticated" to make the whole movie look like one gigantic Andrew Wyeth (or was it some other Wyeth?) illustration. Everything clean, and gorgeous. Sometime in the 60s, somebody decided that in all films set in the Middle Ages everyone must be filthy, pimply, toothless, and in muddy rags.

  • Had to watch this clip again! Hollywood stardom raised him up but he was much more than a big screen presence. Scholar, writer, mariner. Who could keep up with the guy? Unfortunate he's remembered for only the womanizing & partying.

  • The English subtitles are captioning for the hearing-impaired.

  • It's amazing how this is perfectly intelligible as a cool action movie in 2011, even though it's from 1939. That's pretty rare.

  • Oboshreder you're a moron. Do you think anyone will be watching Costner clips 70 years later like the Flynn version.

  • The uppermost of the topper most...In like Like FLynn...No actor comes close to Errol. He became Robinhood, Captain Blood, Miles Hendon...magnificent.

  • that one dislike is prince john

  • He was the best Robin , but the Costner film was best !

  • DOES RICK PERRY'S BERNANKE COMMENT REMIND YOU OF............

  • what about the full movie? can it not be uploaded?

  • australian

  • Oh and Greene Lets not forget the Richard Greene TV series. Thats also pure gold right there.

  • FLYNN, RATHBONE...LEGENDS!!! I'm 43 and saw it on the classics channel when I was a kid. Now MY kids (10 and 8) LOVE this movie!! The legends will live on...it's like Led Zeppelin in a later era. It may sound like an odd juxtaposition to some, but people are starting to cherry pick from the various eras. I think it's a GREAT trend...

  • Back when men, were MEN.

  • @andmaketherain tight-wearing, sparkly men.

  • Best scene is at the end.

    Robin hears Richard is back in England and orders his men to find him, only for the newly-returned King and his knights to disrobe and show their true colours.

    Pity no one has uploaded it.

  • This brings back so many memories. I used to watch this film as a little kid about three tines a day I swear. Incredible that this was 1937 - this was before the Wizard of Oz and was still in glorious Technocolour!

  • This is truly one of the most beautiful movies you will ever see. I don't think I can count how many times I have seen it; and every time it's as enjoyable to me as it must have been for those people who saw it when it first came out. Timeless treasure, Errol Flynn is the one and only Robin Hood.

  • Errol Flynn is Robin Hood. Hard to imagine the studio's first choice being as convincing. They wanted Jimmy Cagney!

  • Errol Flynn was at his prime during the making of this movie. It is arguably his finest role and certainly the most beautiful in Technicolor. My favorite of his films, though, is "The Sea Hawk", which also has a great Korngold score. If it had have been filmed in color, I suspect that it would be the film that we would remember him by.

  • Flynn was the real deal! This movie is untouchable. It all struck a big chord in 1938 with the Depression & the Fascists rumbling in Europe. Flynn came out of nowhere & seized the silver screen. Did it all in 50 years. Rest In Peace Robin Hood!

  • Flynn's Hood is so badass, every other incarnation except for that damned Disney Fox one misses the point. At his core he is noble and brave, fighting against injustice, but piled over that are layers and layers of brash, cocky, self-amused, sarcastic, balls to the wall, rebellious zeal. The guy is the best and baddest and he knows it.

  • @MalnourishedGoat I concur on the fox comment. I still love the Robin Hood Disney movie. Cary Elwes was a pretty good imitation of Errol Flynn though. He seemed to pay homage to Flynn's brashness and wit.

  • Flynn is awesome as Robin. Costner was embarrassing in his lame attempt. I haven't seen the latest version,but I'm a big fan of Crowe,and look forward to it.

  • Why would anyone dub a King's English-speaking movie with English subtitles? Copyright perhaps? Whatever. Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone would not be amused.

  • @errolfan

    Thus a non-native speakers can follow the dialog better.

  • @kaulei89

    hey, in some english films, they slur their words so much i have to run subs to understand them...

  • @kaulei89 and thank you for such kindness!

  • @errolfan it helps if you have hearing loss.

    

  • @juliamacadam Thanks for stating what should have been obvious for me. I'm so used to subtitles for movies and I forgot that they could also be closed-captioned.

  • @errolfan for deaf people.

  • @errolfan to non-native speakers can follow the dialog better and also to those who can't hear.

  • @errolfan Also, so that deaf/hard of hearing people can follow along more easily.

  • @Coldpaws Got it. Respectfully.

  • @errolfan it's for people who have no speakers or ears

  • @errolfan and for the hearing-impaired?

  • @Scrumdidilyumpchious That's how he should look!  Attempting to make him realistic is missing the point.

  • King John Lackland created a YouTube account just to login and dislike this video.

  • Nothing comes close to Errol Flynn's Robin! The best ever, bar none!

  • @bartonim There is no other Robin Hood. The others tend to be too beefy and serious for a swashbuckling hero.

  • @beki611 Yep! Errol sealed it! The best Robin Hood ever!

  • ticfortea:

    I wanted to add my 2 cents, and you've said it better than I ever could.

  • Holy shit, this clip is the founding father of all that which we hold awesome today - suave demeanour, got it with the ladies, a tongue like dragons breath/nigh of a unicorn and the most groundshakingly cocksure attitude in the face of the big guys. He probably has a bigger penis than them, too.

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  • Still the definitive version of Robin Hood. This movie will NEVER age.

  • Ok ... this is 73 years old and still kicks Ridley Scott's version's ass any day.

  • Come Sir Ivor out with you!

  • Badass.

  • " I kicked Longchamp out." hmmm I didn't know they spoke that back then :) lol

  • I love this movie. He is also brilliant in Captain Blood.

  • There has never been a better Robin Hood!

  • I don't care what they did in their private lives but Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains and a virginal Olivia de Havilland together in a scene is truly "golden age". I was about eight years old when I first saw this and I love it as much today more than a half century later.

  • He is SO charming and romantic!!!! *sigh*

  • Since I was child I had this wonderful movie on VHS but with German Language :(...

    it should be forbidden to translate movies like Robin Hood with such a beautiful english language.

  • I can honestly say I haven't seen a more entertaining film of this age. Must have been remarkable for its time.

  • Errol Flynn is Robin Hood from once till now. You right.

  • there will only be 1 on-screen robin hood and you are looking at him. even after all these many years, no other version can match this one in my opinion.

  • Mel Brooks version is better. jk

    Very good acting, very good dialouge. You don't see this stuff anymore.

  • @Jewdicris Mel Brooks' decades-later film "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" was a comic farce satire, not the original true story. Funny and ingenious, but wholly derivative. This 1935 Flynn film is an epic masterpiece of romantic verisimilitude that transports us back INTO the Robin Hood era (AD1190s) in England : . . . We are THERE, IN the hall with the cast of feasters, Norman lords, ladies and warriors. That dagger that just pierced Errol's chair was stopped from piercing US.

  • Can't imagine anyone else as Robin, other than Errol. A truely fine actor and one of the all time best classic golden age movies of all time with some of the screen's most memorable actors. He was also very good in the seldom seen WWII movie

    "Desperate Journey" with our late president Ronald Reagan.

  • THIS is robin hood not the whatever his name is actor who played him in the 'new' robin hood movie.

  • This is the kind of reaction we need in England right now ! " May I obey all your commands with equal pleasure sire !"

  • 2:26-2:38 GREAT!!!

  • "Come Sir Ivor, OUT with you!" ROLF

    "I'll organize revolt...Exact a death for a death, And I'll never rest until every Saxon in this shire can stand up, free men, and strike a blow for Richard and England!" - Wow, intense.

  • "Well, confound it - What are you all goggling at?"

    Genius...

  • He was a Movie star!!! Great acton hero. Most of his movies make you want to be..like him...the hero!!

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  • @ERROLCUSTERFLYNN4EVR

    Don't forget "It's a Wonderful Life," which was made by Capra to show the importance a single individual had on the people around him.

  • One of the best of all time!!!! Wow the new Robinhood sucked luv crowe but damm very bad Errol was the man

  • True quality cinema. Love this.

  • Errol Flynn, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone & Olivia De Havilland all in one scene. golden era at its best :-)

  • lolz! Robin is peter pan now! Tights and all! :D

  • Errol Flynn version is easily the best Robin Hood. I loved Gladiator but Crowe's version of Robin Hood stunk!!

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  • The greatest action movie ever made

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  • Errol Flynn is one of the best American Actor of all Time.

  • @Starfighterking no his was english look it up

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  • @Starfighterking well no matter he was the best robin hood

  • @Starfighterking - He was Australian. Born in Tasmania in 1909.

  • @erinrene1981 was an Australian-born, American actor. he immigrated to us.

  • @Starfighterking Australian born and raised. Didn't get to the US til the mid 30's.

  • @erinrene1981 Wikipedia: "Errol Leslie Flynn (20 June 1909[1] – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born American actor."

  • @Starfighterking Try reading his Autobiography - My Wicked Wicked Ways.

  • my heart just melts for Errol every time I watch him as Robin Hood! *sigh*

  • THE ONE AND ONLY. This movie defined not only Robin Hood, but how to swashbuckle like a pimp. ERROL K.O.s JESUS AND TAKES HIS LADIES!!!

  • There will never be another Errol Flynn or a movie like this. He was born for this.

  • First his name is ERROL. Second, there will never be another Robin Hood better than him. He was and always will be the one and truely only Robin Hood!!!

  • Isn't it wonderful to think that this beautiful woman, who starred in this outrageously wonderul and entertaining film, so long ago, is still with us....

    Here's to Olivia!

  • you jist git stookied by bambies maw ya pyoor poof!

  • Can't wait to see this for the first time ever------TONIGHT!!!!

  • @spagandtuna I hope you enjoyed it! It's amazing. First film I ever saw with those two, and I've now seen almost all eight! The dialogue is sharp as a whetted knife (to quote Mansfield)

  • @Bigqwertyuo1 Absolutely, and in fantastic original color. Flynn is the only Robin Hood, and Rathbone, DeHaviland, Hale Sr., and Rains were also fantastic!!!

  • Erol Flynn IS ROBIN HOOD. Same person. 

  • its a great adventure that Robin Hood goes on the pursuit of justice...

  • Incredible - this is 72yrs ago??

    BTW - I always thought that 1939 was the advent of COLOR theatrical films (Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind)... this reads 1938?

    PS - Errol Flynn - gorgeous in tights and his goatee.

  • Best Robin Hood hands down.

    Errol Flynn was born to play this role, may he rest in peace

  • I totally agree! Nobody can match Erol Flynn!!

  • ...are their voices slightly higher? :/

  • braveheart followed robin hood.

  • am i nuts or does prince john kinda look like murray hewitt?

  • He look so much like robin hood in the first shrek movie!

  • the only robin hood!!!

  • @145canalst Pure definition of the legend! He did it best!

  • @JPaxton1616 Absolutely. Russell Crowe (bleh), Jonas Armstrong (okay) and Kevin Coster (yuck) have nothing on Errol. Robin Hood is supposed to be a fun, lighthearted English legend -- not some Americanized darker 'realist' version.

  • LeeEnfield64, I have to aree with you. That has to be on eof the best lines ever written, but...

    I have to say it's the best film I've ever seen. I love how Flynn butts the first guard (at 0:35) with the antlers as he passes. And taking them out with a deer...

  • Errol's enthusiasm and exuberance is so infectious! It isn't every day a party crasher comes bearing food for the guests! LOL

  • I have no idea why "You speak treason!" "Fluently," is not one of the more famous movie lines. I'll be happy if the new movie is even a -fraction- as awesome as this 70-year-old version.

  • @LeeEnfield64 Likely the witty exchange "You speak treason!"  "Fluently!" as repartee was buried in the context of more such high speed repartee. Whereas, for example, that great Rhett Butler line in Gone With the Wind, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!" as a PARTING shot (followed and dramatically set off by stunned silence) has reverberated in our ears ever since.

  • @LeeEnfield64 This movie has so many memorable quotes as to be ridiculous.

    'Give way little man'

    'Only to a better man than meself'

    'He stands before you'

  • Love this movie! and Errol Flynn was the bomb!

  • Now THATS how you enter a party!

    I'm gonna try that!

  • Great film!! Flynn was good action hero of his day!!

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