Robin Hood, Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Great music of Korngold in the second half of this clip written for or the 1938 film Robin Hood . A masterpiece! The wonderful voice of Basil Rathbone [seated centre at the tournament] and Claude Rains. This film is a triumph of pure Hollywood invention and an encouragement to every budding archer. [I did it at school ,aged 13 and enjoyed it immensely!}

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[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

[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]

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.

[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]

@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.

[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