The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938
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Jul 7, 2016 · De Havilland did not have similar qualms about appearing alongside another actor close to her heart: Errol Flynn. The pair ultimately starred in eight films together – including 1938's The...
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- Peter Mikelbank
- Warners Invested in Their Stars
- The Music Did A Lot of The Work
- Their Best Romances Mattered to The Movies
Even in today’s fractured media landscape, stars have enough cachet to raise funds and draw at least some viewers. Under the old Hollywood studio system, the star was paramount. Hardly any movie came out of a major studio without at least one household name, one whose career was almost entirely controlled by whichever production company had them un...
Except for the screwball comedy Four’s a Crowd, all the Flynn-de Havilland pictures were scored by either Max Steiner or Erich Wolfgang Korngold, two of the finest composers of their era. Both were child prodigies who came to Hollywood from Austria after gaining fame through their operas. Steiner has been called the father of film music, having est...
Other adventure films of the era had stars with good chemistry, studio ballyhoo, and gorgeous and thematically driven music. But what sets the best of the Flynn-de Havilland romances — Captain Blood and Robin Hood —in a league of their own is that their love stories mattered to the larger narrative. That seems obvious, but Hollywood has never had a...
- William Fischer
89 Metascore. After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean. Director Michael Curtiz Stars Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Lionel Atwill. 2. The Charge of the Light Brigade.
The Adventures of Robin Hood: Directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains. When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.
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- Action, Adventure, Romance
- Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
- 1938-05-14
Santa Fe Trail: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan. In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.
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- Drama, War, Western
- Michael Curtiz
- 1940-12-28
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The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 American historical adventure film from Warner Bros., starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B. Wallis as the executive producer.
It was produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke, directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, and Alan Hale. The film is particularly noted for its Academy Award -winning score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold .
